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HBO biopic about the infamous "mad monk" Rasputin from the court of Czar Nicholas II in Russia.

Biopic of Peter I, Czar of Russia, from childhood in 1682 to the Great Northern War against Sweden during the 1700s.

A historical film that tells about two years in the life of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, his relationship with Metropolitan Philip of Moscow and the events of the Oprichnina era.

The film is based on the musical recording of the famous opera by Modest Mussorgsky about the tragic events surrounding the ruling of the Russian tsar Boris in the early 17th century. The recording was actually made two years before the filming with the participation of the Washington Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich) and several opera stars (the part of Marina is sung by Galina Vishnevskaya). Zulawski made the film just as we would be watching the theatrical performance. Then we are going through the sets and, finally, we notice the film crew. The director deliberately filled the picture with a plenty of anachronisms making the implications on the Soviet history and the other dictatorships of the 20th century.

Napoléon Bonaparte's life, loves and exceptional destiny from 1769 to 1821, but as seen through the eyes of Talleyrand, the cynical and ironic politician who once was the Emperor of France's Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Cycle of record films about life and death of the last Russian monarchs.

Orphaned in his childhood and treated abusively by higher-ranking Boyars, Tzar Ivan was a mercurial ruler who committed his first murder at the age of 13 and was feared for his random acts of violence. Experience his powerful reign like never before.

Vienna glove-sales-lady Christl falls in love to Czar Alexander. Metternich tries to use this to keep him out of the conferences of the Vienna Congress from 1815.

"Not to spare bullets!" was the highest command to a governor in case of a workers' revolt. Desperate time - desperate measures. No participant can find rest after the event.

A large-scale documentary and fiction series by Andrey Kravchuk about one of the most prominent rulers of Russia - the first Emperor Peter the Great. The figure of Peter I, as well as the era of his formation and reign, still excites the minds of people all over the world. 2022 marks the 350th anniversary of his birth. The purpose of the series is to reconstruct on the screen the most significant events in the life of Peter the Great, using modern filming and computer graphics technologies. The creators of the project will show how the last Russian tsar ascended the throne, although he was the fourteenth child in the family; how he won access to the sea when the country did not have a professional army and navy; and how in just a few decades he brought the Russian Empire to the world leaders.

In May 1913 the Romanov Dynasty celebrates its 300th anniversary at the Russian throne. The last emperor in the long line is Tsar Nicholas II. He rules over a country with huge social and economic differences. Russia is for the most part still an agrarian society, but capitalism and its industries are growing. In 1914 Russia gets involved in the First World War. Tsar Nicholas II declares a general mobilization. A vast number of peasants and workers have to go to the front as soldiers. After three years the country is ruined by the war, and there is a shortage of provisions. In February 1917 workers begin striking in the capital, Petrograd. Their protests are soon joined by soldiers. A complete anarchy is threatening the country, when the parliament, called the duma, reorganizes the power structure by forming a new Provisional Government. At the same time the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies forms another ruling body at the City Hall of Petrograd. In this situation Tsar Nicholas II sees no other possibility than to resign from his government. On the 4th of March 1917 he declares his abdication from the throne. The new Provisional Government and its war minister Kerensky continue the war. This presents an opportunity for the Bolsheviks to organize demonstrations and to persuade the workers and soldiers to overthrow the Provisional Government and seize power themselves.

British historian Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to investigate the 300-year reign of the Romanov dynasty.

A sarcastic comedy about the Imperial Russian bureaucracy, based on the eponymous novella by Yuri Tynyanov. Set in the reign of Emperor Paul I. A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words for "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kizhe". The Tsar reads the error, and wants to meet this (non-existent) Lieutenant Kizhe. His courtiers are at first too frightened to contradict the Tsar, but then the fiction turns out to be all too convenient for them. So Lieutenant Kizhe gets himself exiled to Siberia, recalled from exile, promoted, and married. He dies and receives a state funeral. In many ways, he is the most charming and lovable character in the film, even though he remains throughout the film a "confidential person, without a shape".

The history of the Russian Tsars.

A historical film about the life and state activities of Tsar Peter I, the reformer of Russia of the XVIII century, starting from the Battle of Narva in 1700 and ending with the adoption of the title of emperor by Peter the Great in 1721.

Part one of a pair of historical films about the life of Peter the Great.

In 1914, French economist Edmond Théry wrote: "By the middle of this century, Russia will dominate Europe politically, economically and financially." The director ponders in his independent film why this didn't happen.

History of the Russian revolution and the following Civil War.

XVI century. The film depicts the life of Ivan from his earliest years to the last days of his reign.

Based on A. N. Tolstoy's novel "Peter I" (1945) and continuation of the film "Peter's Youth" (1980). At the end of the 17th century, Russia suffered huge losses in trade because it had no access to the sea. The young Peter I begins the construction of the Russian fleet in Voronezh and takes the Azov fortress. At this time, dissatisfaction with the rule of the young monarch is brewing among the courtiers.

The story of the formation of the Finnish Republic and its independence from Russia.

The year is 1904. The world is changing except that Russia under Czar Nicholas II doesn't seem to notice or care. Young people are in revolt but are constantly crushed by the Czar's Secret Police. Sophie Derkheim, a young student, sets out to seek revenge against the judge who sent her brother to a Siberian prison camp where he died a painful death. She travels to the South of France where the judge is vacationing and calmly shoots him. She now faces extradition, torture and a painful death...but her fellow student revolutionaries in St. Petersburg put together a daring plan that will see them kidnap Russia's Chief Prosecutor from the Cannes. Petersburg train and then demand Sophie's release. Cannes Alexie sets out a daring plan and that's where everything goes wrong. Accompanied by a young beautiful revolutionary named Anna, who soon sees that Alexie is not the great "brain" but in fact almost a liability.His plans get them into even bigger trouble and danger as the train journey unfolds with its twist of turns. Drascovitch, the Chief Prosecutor, must be kidnapped from the train before they reach France. What are they to do? Somehow Alexie and Anna despite many hair-raising setbacks do manage to have part of the plan work. However, this leads to even greater danger as the film's fast pace speeds on to the great attempt to free Sophie.

Ninth of November, 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators led by Father Georgy Gapon were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

Author systematized the little-known facts of the biography of the last Russian Emperor Nicolai II. For example: in September, 1896, during Nicolai's visit to the Great Britain, Prince of Wales shows him the horoscope for date of his birth, made earlier by famous English predictor. The prediction spoken about two future wars. Emperor makes a decision 'to overcome the Fate': to organize a world conference on disarmament for prevention of wars (the Hague peace conference, May, 1899). Later he tried to overcome a Fate decisively in March, 1905 (an attempt to abdicate and to head the Russian Orthodox Church), and then again and again - but he could not. His attempts to overcome a Fate is the main essence and content of the film.

Universally acknowledged as the greatest of all Russian operas, this is a faithful and often dazzling production of the standard Rimsky-Korsakov version taped "live" at the Bolshoi in 1978. As Boris, the renowned Yevgeni Neterenko is as justifiably identified with the role in his generation as Chaliapin, London and Kipness were in theirs. Nesterenko gives a remarkably vivid, human portrait of the tormented half-crazed Tsar, and is supported by a first rate ensemble in a richly designed and costumed production that represents opera at its grandest. Particularly outstanding are Vladislav Piavko as the Pretender, Valery Yaroslavtsev as Pimen, Irina Arkhipova as Marina (a role generally associated with Vishnevskaya), Galina Kalinina as Xenia, and Alexsei Maslennikov as the Simpleton.