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- DirectorEdvins SnoreStarsJon StricklandVladimir BukovskyVladimir LeninThe Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.
- A series of documentaries exploring life in the Soviet Union during the glasnost era of the late 1980s.
- StarsAdrian RawlinsLee RossWilliam HopeA dramatized documentary about the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in May 1940.
- CreatorRoss M. DinersteinClay TweelStarsHeather McPhaulJohn GrishamJ.J. ArendsThe story of Ron Williamson, a man who sat on Oklahoma's death row for 11 years for a crime he didn't commit. Based on John Grisham's "The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town."
- DirectorChris MillsStarsMike GoodaleShawn NelsonDale SizemoreThe story behind the infamous downing of an American Black Hawk helicopter by Somali gunmen.
- DirectorDiane PerelsztejnStarsSamuel BakLiliane Cordova KaczerginskiDavid E. FishmanThe moving story of how a small band of Jewish poets and writers saved priceless collections of Jewish books and manuscripts from destruction during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, and then again during the Sovietisation of the Baltic states.
- DirectorInara KolmaneLooking for truth through accounts and memories of the three main characters of WW II events that diverge between Jews, Latvians and Russians.
- DirectorIlmar RaagStarsJaan KrossVello SaloSeptember is a film about the complicated choices of simple people. The internationally renowned Estonian author, Jaan Kross (1920-2007) was arrested in 1944 by the Nazis. A year after the Soviet forces entered Tallinn and he was arrested again. The accusation was the same both times: conspiracy with the underground independence revolutionaries. Based on the author's journal, pieces from his oeuvre and interviews, the film creates a story about a few monumental weeks in Tallinn, in September 1944.
- DirectorRené VilbreStarsÜlo JõgiIn 1943 the Finns set up an undercover radio intelligence group and send it to Estonia, which at the time is a part of Nazi occupied territory. When the Germans retreat the intelligence group falls into a trap of Soviet counterintelligence, betrayed by the Western allies, Finnish headquarters and their own men.
- DirectorMarija StonyteThree young girls decide to do military service on a voluntary basis after the conscription for men is reintroduced in Lithuania as a response to possible threats from neighboring Russia. The girls live and train among 600 men at an isolated military base for 9 months. By observing the physical and emotional transformation of our characters we witness the bearing of an independent woman, responsible for her own faith and happiness.
- DirectorAndrius LekaviciusStarsDalia KernagieneVytautas KernagisEgle KernagyteEveryone in Lithuania knows Vytautas Kernagis - heard him singing, saw on the stage or TV. Kernagis thought the artist must remain mysterious. However still living in USSR, he bought a camera in the 1980s and documented his life.
- DirectorRic Esther BienstockYaron NiskiStarsNeil BennettIt tells the story of Major Karl Plagge, a Nazi officer who, during the Holocaust, was commandant of a forced labor camp called "HKP" in Vilnius, Lithuania. In reality, he was sheltering hundreds of Jewish families. By the end, many were saved in hiding places dug into the ground and carved into the walls. Many more were executed by the SS and buried in a mass grave. Today, the former "HKP" is unchanged. A group of scientists arrive to locate the hiding places of those that were saved and identify the mass grave of those who were murdered. A child survivor of the camp and an American physician, whose mother was saved by Major Plagge, join them. The film tracks their three stories and, ultimately, brings to light the unknown tale of a Schindler-type German who listened to his conscience, instead of his superiors.
- DirectorAskolds SaulitisHistorical and chronological depiction of how formed the first volunteer Latvian Riflemen battalions and their battles in World War 1, Latvian war of independence and Russian civil war.
- DirectorAskolds SaulitisStarsAndris KeissHartmut LangeIvan ShvedoffThe chronological story of how newly freedom proclaimed Latvia secured it's freedom in Latvian war of independence in the most significant 1919 autumn period from Berlin puppet army from the west and Communist regime from the east.
- DirectorPhilippe Mac GawWhile Ukraine is fighting to get away from Russian influence, what does the Latvian "Non-Citizen" teach us, with its 300 000 Russian-speakers wound up into the recesses of History ? I met the main character Sergey in Riga in 2012. Surgeon and researcher, he was defending his work in a medical congress. With his gentle eyes, his Docteur Zhivago's face he would conqueer any person in the audience. Two years later I met a different man, in Donetsk in the middle of the Ukrainian conflict. He volunteered in an hospital in Lugansk to provide the first help to the independentists soldiers. Non Citizen Land is a reflexion on the situation of some ethnic russian facing discrimination within a European community more and more hostile. An isolated case or the tendency for the next decade ?
- DirectorJonas OhmanVincas SruoginisStarsAndrius MamontovasDarius UdrysIn 1944, Soviet forces occupied Lithuania for a second time in less than five years. The Invisible Front tells the story of Lithuanian resistance and love between Luksa and Nijole .
- DirectorLauris AbeleRaitis AbeleStarsKaspars AninsKristaps BedritisLauma BalodeThese are religious rituals, magical and true, the Battle of Saule, the Crusaders battles, our ancestors fiery battles for the free land. Who were the last pagans of Europe and who did they believe?
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsAlgirdas BrazauskasMikhail GorbachevVytautas LandsbergisDocumentary about Lithuania in the years 1989 to 1991, when the Baltic country broke away from the Soviet Union. Because of the peaceful protests with much singing, this period was later also called the 'singing revolution'. As one of the founders of the independence movement, Vytautas Landsbergis was at the heart of the historical upheaval. His incisive reflections are complemented by extensive archive footage of demonstrations, party congresses and the Soviet military intervention.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsJoseph StalinNikita KhrushchevLavrenti BeriaThe enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Joseph Stalin's funeral.
- DirectorKen GumbertLithuanian survivors of Soviet occupation post WWII tell how they survived and struggled against this formidable foe.
- DirectorMarius A. MarkeviciusStarsSarunas MarciulionisArvydas SabonisRimas KurtinaitisThe incredible story of the 1992 Lithuanian basketball team, whose athletes struggled under Soviet rule, became symbols of Lithuania's independence movement, and - with help from the Grateful Dead - triumphed at the Barcelona Olympics.
- DirectorInese KlavaIvars ZviedrisInta is a brusque, crusty woman who lives alone on the edge of a picturesque marsh. One day her solitude is intruded upon by the arrival of a documentary filmmaker. In his eyes Inta is an outstanding would-be film protagonist but the wild woman would rather put a curse on the importunate intruder than let herself be filmed. But the filmmaker's persistence finally succeeds in melting the ice of Inta's heart... just in order to break it soon afterwards.
- DirectorVera KrichevskayaStarsNatalia SindeevaAleksandr VinokurovVera KrichevskayaIn 2008, Natasha, a newly rich woman, decides to open an independent TV station in Russia and builds an open-minded team of outcasts. By 2020, Natasha has lost everything to Russia's war between Propaganda and Truth.
- DirectorAlina GorlovaAfter they fled the war in Syria, the Suleyman family was scattered across Europe. Lazgin lives with his family in Ukraine, but his brother Koshnhav is in Germany, while a third brother is in Kurdish Iraq, and a fourth remains in Syria. This Rain Will Never Stop follows Lazgin's son Andriy, who is now a volunteer with the Red Cross and dealing with another military conflict, this time in Ukraine. Whether to escape the war or help relieve the suffering on site-such is the dilemma that Andriy struggles with during a visit to his brother in Germany and an emotional reunion with relatives in Iraq. After the sudden death of his father, Andriy decides to accompany the body back to Syria. Andriy's journeys are interspersed with footage of humanitarian relief efforts, displays of military strength, festive gatherings, and slices of everyday life-like an endless cycle of war and peace, in striking black-and-white cinematography. A dark atmosphere and the sparingly supplied information emphasize the grief and uncertainty within a war-torn family.