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The Romanovs

The Romanovs
Romanoff was the second dynasty to rule Russia, after the House of Rurik, reigning from 1613 until the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II on March 15, 1917, as a result of the February Revolution. This is an eight part series on that three hundred year rule.
Episode one
Episode two
Episode three
Episode four
Episode five
Episode six
Episode seven
Episode eight

Moscow's Englishmen

Moscow's Englishmen
Stories from the Cold war and the enthusiastic recruitment of English intelligence officers by the Soviets.
George Blake
Kim Philby, Englishman and Masterspy
Philby, The Spy Who Went Into The Cold Cambridge Spies

Last of the Czars

Last of the Czars
The story of the last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II his wife and family. The Romanov dynasty would end with the murder of the Csar and his family by communists in 1918.
Part 1 Nicky and Alex        Part 2 The Shadow of Rasputin        Part 3 Death of the Dynasty

Russia's Lost princesses

Russia's Lost princesses
Interviews with leading historians, archive footage and dramatic reconstruction reveal the childhoods of Tsar Nicholas II's four daughters - Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia - and the truth behind the fairytale images. The sisters were the most photographed princesses of their day, attracting the same frenzied press attention as Princess Diana later would, but their public profile masked the reality of their strange and very isolated upbringing.
Part 1, the Guilded Cage         Part 2, the World turned upside down

Grigori Rasputin

Grigori Rasputin
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (January 1869 – 30 December 1916) was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Tsar Nicholas II and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.
Who killed Rasputin?        The last days of Rasputin        The Real Rasputin

The Romanov Mystery

The Romanov Mystery
The last Russian royal dynasty disappeared in July 1918. What was the real fate of the Imperial Russian family? Did any member of the family survive? Where is their final resting place?
The Mystery of the Romanovs, Part 1        The Mystery of the Romanovs, Part 2       See also The Romanovs, The Missing Bodies

Empire of the Tsars

Empire of the Tsars
Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to tell the extraordinary story of the dynasty that ruled the country for more than three centuries. It's an epic tale that includes giant figures such as Peter the Great and Catherine the Great, the devastating struggle against Napoleon in 1812, and the political murders of Nicholas II and his family in 1918 which brought the dynasty to a brutal end.
Episode 1: Reinventing Russia        Episode 2: Age of Extremes       Episode 3:The Road To Revolution

Soviet Storm, War in the East

Soviet Storm, War in the East
An eighteen part series of the Russia-German war in the east from 1941 to 1945. Starting with the German invasion of Russia in June 1941, it tells the story of the war in the east up until the Russian attack on Japan in 1945.
Soviet Storm, Episode one Barbarossa        Soviet Storm, Episode two The Battle of Kiev        Soviet Storm, Episode three Sevestapol        Soviet Storm, Episode four Battle for Moscow       
Soviet Storm, Episode five Leningrad        Soviet Storm, Episode six Rzhev        Soviet Storm, Episode seven Stalingrad        Soviet Storm, Episode eight Caucasus       
Soviet Storm, Episode nine Kursk        Soviet Storm, Episode ten Liberation of Ukraine        Soviet Storm, Episode eleven Operation Bagration         Soviet Storm, Episode twelve War in the Air       
Soviet Storm, Episode thirteen War at Sea        Soviet Storm, Episode fourteen Partisans        Soviet Storm, Episode fiveteen Secret Intelligence        Soviet Storm, Episode sixteen Battle for Germany       
Soviet Storm, Episode seventeen Battle for Berlin        Soviet Storm, Episode eighteen War against Japan

Stalin (in color)

Stalin (in color)
Who was Stalin? The man who defeated Nazism? The “Little Father of the Peoples"? Or the greatest criminal of his time? In Apocalypse Stalin, three 52-minute episodes, Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle paint the portrait of one of the fiercest despots of the twentieth century, using archive film of the day. This footage has been perfectly restored and beautifully colorized by the Apocalypse production team. Starting with the fight to the death against Hitler, the series tells the story of the incredible rise to power of Joseph Jughashvili. This cobbler's son from Georgia started with nothing and made his way up the ranks through various intrigues and crimes, ultimately rising to absolute power and adopting the moniker Stalin - “man of steel" in Russian. From a human standpoint, the series describes the enormous tragedy that befell the Soviet people between 1878 and 1945, as they found themselves caught in a trap that became a living hell.
Episode One, Demon        Episode Two, The red man        Episode Three: The master of the world       

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