uh.. so I'm guessing there's no good documentaries? :3
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Any Good Documentaries on the USSR?
Trying to find a good documentary on the USSR on youtube, but haven't found anything worthwhile. I'm looking for at least a 1 to 2 hour long documentary that talks about the development of the USSR, it's political and economic system and it's collapse.
I don't care if the language is Russian, but as long as there's English subtitles then I'd be fine, but English is preferred. x]
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uh.. so I'm guessing there's no good documentaries? :3
Previously known as Marceau
There is plenty documentaries about USSR sad but I can't find them with English subtitles. If I find I let you know. Suppose I am lucky I can speak Russian,
Wow.. no documentaries about the USSR exist that are in English? :l I still can't find any..
Previously known as Marceau
What about try to watch Soviet movies made in Breznevs era about land cultivation, peasantry life or city life? There is with English subtitles?
There are a few but I don't know of any great ones in particular. Opening in Moscow isn't bad, but it's quite dated.
Here are some clips from the internets that you may find useful though:
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Death of a Nation is a documentary on how Russia went to shit after the USSR collapsed.
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Excellent documentary Psy. Depressing as hell but still worth watching.
If you want a good movie about the birth of the USSR, I have several recommendations:
REDS (Dir. Warren Beatty) ((Very interesting if watched in combination with either OCTOBER by Eisenstein or David Lean's version of DR. ZHIVAGO (even if it is blatantly pro-capitalist it's still fantastically shot)))
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: EMMA GOLDMAN (PBS Doc) Explains the great anarchist's views of the Bolsheviks and how they failed
There is a YouTube video called MARXIST VIEW OF THE 20TH CENTURY, featuring Alan Woods, that is really fantastic and explains the first 30 years of 20th century history.
If you really want a good documentary, you may need to accept that the film medium was quite new back then and that, as a result, the only media available is pro-Reagan stuff (here in English world, at least) made after the fact. John Reed's TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD and Emma Goldman's writings are the best source documents from that era.
There are few documentaries on the USSR as such in English that could be described as fair and balanced.
The 1967 Granada TV documentary Ten Days That Shook the World was made in cooperation with MosFilm and is quite good. Narration by Orson Welles with much rare archival footage taken before and during the Revolution and supplemented with footage from Octobyr.
It seems that the Granadian documentary would likely be quite difficult to come by though
It's hard to put in to words how much the fall of the USSR totally fucked over Russia and other ex-Soviet countries.
It really is just unbelievable.
