Leon Trotsky
Know for: Acting
Born: 1879-11-07
Place of birth: Ianovka, Ukraine
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The Guns of August (1964)
Traces the origins and actions of World War I, from the funeral of Britain's King Edward VII to the Versailles Treaty.
To Arms, We Are Fascists! (1962)
Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern Italian history from 1911 to 1961, centering on...
Human Remains (1998)
Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most...
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1 (1996)
Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the map of Eastern Europe and parts of Asia in the...
Tsar to Lenin (1937)
A documentary film account of the Russian Revolution, based on archival footage.
Anniversary of the Revolution (1918)
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the...
The History of the Civil War (1921)
The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the...
Stalin: Man of Steel (2003)
Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head...
Murnau, Borzage and Fox (2008)
Documentary focusing on the film careers F.W. Murnau, Frank Borzage and William Fox and their impact on the history of cinema.
The Brain of Soviet Russia (1919)
This film shows us leaders of organizations that emerged after the Russian Revolution.
Gentlemen in Storm and Gentlemen in Crown (1934)
“A retrospect of European events during the past forty years, composed from early documentary material, and including one of the earliest...
The Return of Vertov (2024)
The film deals with intellectual activities which are usually hidden from the human eye. It concerns doing research in film archives, searching for...
Kino-Pravda No. 14 (1923)
Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: IV. Congress of the Comintern / Congress of the Profintern.
The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo (2005)
Never before has the extraordinary life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo been framed in relation to the full spectrum of the historical and cultural...
Halfway to Hell (1953)
Documentary of war atrocities with newsreel footage of concentration camps.
Stalin - Trotsky: A Battle to Death (2015)
For 20 years, theirs was an ideological duel between two visions of Communism; a political duel, a duel for power, and above all, a duel to the...
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution (2018)
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revolution of 1917 and, therefore, as one of the men...
Trotsky y México. Dos revoluciones del siglo XX (2006)
"Trotsky and Mexico, two revolutions of the twentieth century" tells us of the famous Russian revolutionary asylum by President Lazaro Cardenas in...
The Chosen (2016)
Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top...
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre (2020)
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...
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (2021)
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective...
1917 - Jahr der Entscheidung (1973)
Four documentary scenes with subtitles document the year 1917 as the beginning of a new era. In addition to the military situation and the supply...