Elizaveta Svilova Movies

In the early years of cinema, editors were usually women. This short documentary looks at how they wielded power, and how their work was made...

Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema.

This riveting Russian documentary takes you inside the trials of the notorious German war criminals, brought to trial to account for their actions....

“The Magic Beam” is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of...

Archival footage of Ordzhonikidze, scenes from his funeral in Moscow, and speeches by his grieving colleagues, including Joseph Stalin and Nikita...