Lech Wałęsa
1943 (82 года)
Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
Ania Szczepańska
Corinna Waldbauer, Stanisław Ciosek
Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.
Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
Les Bourreaux de Staline : Katyn, 1940
Cédric Tourbe
Cédric Tourbe, Dmitry Tokarev
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the secrets and details of which have only recently been partially revealed.
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Les Derniers Jours de l'URSS
Jean-Charles Deniau
Philippe Faure, Stephen F. Cohen
From 1989 to 1991 a string of unpredictable events happened that brought to light the rivalry between two men: Gorbachev, hindered by the economic results of his perestroika, and Yeltsin, embodying the hopes of the Russian people. Illustrated with interviews of top protagonists such as Mikhail Gobachev himself, the documentary recounts the critical last two years of the former USSR.
The Last Days of the USSR
Meeting Gorbachev
André Singer, Werner Herzog
Mikhail Gorbachev, Werner Herzog
Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include the talks to reduce nuclear weapons, the reunification of Germany and the dissolution of his country.
Meeting Gorbachev
1979: Urknall der Gegenwart
Pascal Verroust, Dirk K. van den Berg
Haideh Daragahi, Shahin Nawai
Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran. Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland. Saddam Hussein's rise to power in Iraq. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The nuclear accident at the Harrisburg power plant and the birth of ecological activism. The year 1979, the beginning of the future.
1979: Big Bang of the Present
