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Women of the Gulag is a 2018 US short documentary film [2] directed by Marianna Yarovskaya. [3] and based on the book Women of the Gulag: Stories of Five Remarkable Lives by Paul Roderick Gregory (2013). [4] Executive Produced by Mitchell Block and Mark Jonathan Harris, it was a Best Documentary Short shortlist nominee at the 2018 Academy ...
Films about the Gulag, the government agency in charge of the Soviet network of forced labour camps which were set up by order of Vladimir Lenin, reaching its peak during Joseph Stalin's rule from the 1930s to the early 1950s.
Pages in category "Documentary films about the Gulag" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Way Back is a 2010 American survival film directed by Peter Weir, from a screenplay by Weir and Keith Clarke.The film is inspired by The Long Walk (1956), the memoir by former Polish prisoner of war Sławomir Rawicz, who claimed to have escaped from a Soviet Gulag and walked 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to freedom in World War II.
This four-part documentary peels back the Duggars' wholesome reality TV facade to explore the infamous family’s connections to the Institute in Basic Life Principles, an ultraconservative ...
Most of them, together with the local population, were forcibly assigned Soviet citizenship, even the American-born Americans. Attempts to renounce this citizenship or to contact the American embassy were blocked; these people were harassed by the authorities, and those who were most insistent landed in a gulag on trumped-up charges.
He took a job translating medical journals into English for the Soviet Health Bureau and befriended several notable Gulag survivors, including Georg Tenno and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn included some of Dolgun's experiences in his work The Gulag Archipelago. Dolgun married Irene in 1965 and they had a son, Andrew, in 1966.
The People Speak is a 2009 American documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans. The film gives voice to those who, by insisting on equality and justice, spoke up for social change throughout U.S. history and also illustrates the relevance of this to today's society.