Plot: In post-World War II Russia, paranoid Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (F. Murray Abraham) unjustly imprisons legions of his fellow countrymen with the help of his brutally violent security head, Victor Abakumov (Christopher Plummer). When technologically gifted prisoners like Lew Rubin (Victor Garber)...
Plot: Children of the Arbat is a 16-part television series based on the Children of the Arbat trilogy by Anatoly Rybakov. It aired on the Channel One network in Russia in 2004. The series closely follows the plot of Rybakov's trilogy. Wikipedia
Plot: Doctor Zhivago is a 2002 British television miniseries directed by Giacomo Campiotti and starring Hans Matheson, Keira Knightley and Sam Neill. The teleplay by Andrew Davies is based on the 1957 novel of the same title by Boris Pasternak. Wikipedia
Plot: Alexander Parvus, a Marxist theoretician and publicist, flees to Germany from his exile in Russia; With Germany's aid, he moves to remotely spark a revolution in the Russian Empire.
Plot: The Idiot is a costume drama TV series of Vladimir Bortko produced by Russia TV Channel in 2003, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1869 novel of the same title. The series' script is very close to Dostoevsky's original text, and the series features well-known Russian actors. Wikipedia
Plot: Igor Petrov, the commander of a Red Army unit, is compelled to exchange ID papers with a thief known as Ash. After restarting their lives in this way, one achieves acts of bravery, while the other becomes a violent outlaw leader.
Plot: This historical drama explores the fight for an independent Texas that occurred following the conclusion of the Battle of the Alamo. Gen Sam Houston leads a ragtag group of Texas Rangers into battle against Mexican Gen Santa Anna. Houston and the Rangers fight seemingly insurmountable odds to overtake...