Long lost Soviet Lord of the Rings adaptation, Khraniteli, rediscovered
Even the most diehard Tolkienites have been surprised to hear last week’s latest revelation in Middle Earth fan lore. Khraniteli (Хранители), a little-known 1991 Soviet ...
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The Top 25 Soviet Comedies You’ll Love to Watch
When most people think of Soviet cinema, they picture arthouse classics by directors like Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Eisenstein, or they turn to powerful but often depressing ...
The Top Russian Christmas and New Year’s Films
Happy New Year, all! Here are the top nine Russian and Soviet Christmas and New Year’s movies. Starting with The Irony of Fate, which millions of Russians rewatch every ...
Top 10 Russian Sci-Fi Movies
From the earliest days of the Soviet Union, Russian artists wowed the world with some of the first science fiction classics of the 20th century. Yevgeny Zamyatin’s 1920 ...
First 20 James Bond Movies Now Free Online (for Americans)
The first 20 movies in the James Bond franchise are now streaming free on YouTube for American viewers. MGM has just released the first twenty James Bond films free on YouTube ...
Top 25 Russian and Soviet War Movies
This list contains the top 25 Russian war films of all time. Many of them are not well known to global audiences, but they are all more than deserving of your attention! In ...
Top 10 Russian Horror Films
Russian and Soviet cinema is famous for having relatively little horror. There are various reasons put forward for why there are so few Russian horror films. Generally the one ...
Top Podcasts for Russian Enthusiasts
In today’s news environment, there’s plenty of media out there intermittently obsessed with all things Russian. However, this sort of coverage cannot satiate the appetite of ...
Top 20 Russian Movies According to Russians
Russia and the Soviet Union have produced some amazing movies over the years. Outside of Russia, the most famous Russian movies are innovative montage masterpieces by ...
Andrei Tarkovsky Polaroids: His Luminous World
We remember the Soviet director and screenwriter, Andrei Tarkovsky, as the creator of Stalker, Solaris, and many other incomparable films. But not everyone knows about his ...
