Films for Thought (Firm)
Publisher
Films for Thought
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Anna Larina was the young bride of Nikolai Bukharin, one of the top leaders in the early years of the Russian Revolution. This documentary is based on her memorable autobiography, “This I Cannot Forget,” which she wrote late in life, after being imprisoned for almost twenty years in the Russian Gulag. Larina recounts her life story, which is interwoven with extraordinary archival film and interviews. Larina grew up during the 1917 October Revolution,...
Publisher
Films for Thought
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Rosemarie Reed’s 1994 documentary Conversations with Gorbachev sheds light on world events from the first-hand perspective of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, as interviewed by Professor of Russian and Soviet Studies at NYU and Princeton, Stephen F. Cohen.. It includes Gorbachev’s insights on reintegration in the post-Soviet space and his support for the basic concept for a Eurasian Customs Union of former Soviet republics. When Cohen...
Publisher
Films for Thought
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2009 Paris Science Film Festival in France.. Using newsreels, family home movies and stills, stock footage, dramatization and interviews, this biography relates the life and times of Irene Joliot-Curie and her husband, Frederic Joliot-Curie. Though less well known than those of Irene’s parents, Marie and Pierre Curie, the Joliot-Curies’ discoveries were of equal significance. In 1934 the two were the first...
Publisher
Films for Thought
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
RAVENSBRUCK CONCENTRATION CAMP 1939 – 1945. Seventy-six kilometers north of Berlin is a pastoral setting accessible by a road that winds through a woods of pine trees, with splashes of wild flowers leading down to a lake. There, one can recline on the sandy beach and look across to the medieval town of Furstenberg, or watch local fishermen working from their docks and small boats, old men smoking pipes as they calmly fish for a living, as they have...
Publisher
Films for Thought
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The story of two close friends who discovered nuclear fission is told in great detail within the context of both World Wars. This video is as much about role of scientists in political events, social responsibility, and discrimination against women and Jews, as it is about the science, though the science is clearly explained. Archival film footage and photographs are extensively and effectively used throughout the production. Most fascinating are...
Publisher
Films for Thought
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Filmed during the last few months prior to the 1996 Russian presidential election, when four opposition candidates to Boris Yeltsin were running for president of Russia. Most Americans were unaware of these opposition leaders. Russian scholar Stephen F. Cohen interviews the oppositionists: Aleksandr Lebed, Gennady Zyuganov, Grigory Yavlinsky and Aleksandr Rutskoi..