Even in his dotage, stooped and tissue-skinned and walker-dependent, the former (and final) Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev is an imposing, even intimidating figure — formidable enough to ...

"I don't want 'em here, players don't want 'em here..." Bring on the Soviets. Sony Pictures Classics recently secured US distribution to this doc, titled Red Army, which will be premiering at the ...

Sergei Loznitsa trains his thoughtful, formally rigorous eye on the 2017 Victory Day celebrations at Berlin's Soviet War Memorial. The setting for Sergei Loznitsa‘s newest documentary, delivered with ...

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all North American, Eastern European and Asian rights to director Gabe Polsky’s new documentary “Red Army” ahead of its premiere in the Cannes Film Festival Special ...

Director Gabe Polsky talks about the connection between sports and politics and just what it was that made the Soviet hockey team the best on the planet. Veteran sports fans know that the United ...

Sport is a natural metaphor for war. Two sides in two colors face each other on a field, each with their pride and their physical safety at risk. Their leaders scheme plans of attack, drawing arrows ...

Sometimes you don’t realize you needed a cinematic pairing until you see it, as with Werner Herzog interviewing Mikhail Gorbachev for the German filmmaker’s biographical doc of the consequential 20th ...

The U.S. men’s hockey team’s upset of the Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid may have been the “Miracle on Ice” here in the States, but back in the USSR it was something else ...

Russian docmaker Vitaly Mansky asks Mikhail Gorbachev some tough questions — but even when he doesn't get answers, the results are remarkable. Even in his dotage, stooped and tissue-skinned and walker ...