Leonid Brezhnev Trailers
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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, born in Kamenskoe, Yekaterinoslav governorate, Russian Empire - Soviet statesman, politician and party figure who held the highest leadership position in the CPSU for 18 years (from 1964 until his death in 1982). First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee in 1964-1966 and General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee from 1966 to 1982. Marshal of the Soviet Union (1976). Four times Hero of the Soviet Union (1966, 1976, 1978, 1981), Hero of Socialist Labor (1961). Candidate member of the Presidium of the Central Committee (1952-1953; 1956-1957), Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1952-1953; 1956-1960, 1963-1964). In 1960-1964 - Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Chairman of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU for the RSFSR from 1964 to 1966. Deputy of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (3rd-10th convocations, 1950-1982). Member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR and the Union of Writers of the USSR. Cavalier of eight Orders of Lenin. Laureate of the International Lenin Prize "For Strengthening Peace Among Nations" (1973) and the Lenin Prize for Literature (1979). In 1978 he was awarded the Order of Victory (in 1989 this award was cancelled by decree signed by the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev as being contrary to the statute of the order). In total, Brezhnev had 117 Soviet and foreign state awards. He participated in the Great Patriotic War and the Victory Parade on Red Square on June 24, 1945 (political officer of the combined regiment of the 4th Ukrainian Front).
Most Popular Leonid Brezhnev Trailers
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20 February 1996
Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the map of Eastern Europe and parts of Asia in the 20th century.
10 December 2019
Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom.
14 September 2012
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm.
08 January 2002
At the Winter Olympics of 1980, after two tense weeks amidst growing Cold War fears, the U.S. Olympic hockey team found themselves playing improbably against the legendary unbeatable Soviet Army hockey team for Olympic Gold.
01 January 1991
A special that takes a look inside the White House.
18 September 1981
A 1981 documentary film directed by Yuri Ozerov. It showed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow.
06 December 1976
A Soviet biographical documentary devoted to Leonid I. Brezhnev, portraying his life “at work and at home” and tracing his path from the son of a metalworker to General Secretary of the CPSU and Marshal of the Soviet Union.
27 October 2021
A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard reality of living that dream.
01 January 1980
The film tells about the social activities of the world chess champion Anatoliy Karpov, his scientific work and hobbies, about the preparation for the 1981 World Cup.
01 May 1974
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
01 January 1979
About the difficult political situation in the world related to the arms race.
21 February 2025
The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) was the starting point for the slow but sure collapse of communist authoritarian rule in Eastern Europe.
29 October 2010
The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the National Archives of Romania.
21 March 2016
A film about the life of the Roma people, the most closed ethnic group today. Influential thieves' clans, barons and drug lords, early marriages, artists on stage and in life, anti-Roma riots in Europe and Roma riots in Russia - the whole truth about the problems, sorrows and joys of the modern Roma community.
01 April 2019
Based on Dr. Ahron Bregman's book, this documentary examines the life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian billionaire and double agent.
18 December 2017
Documentary about the life of Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli, an influential Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat.
18 June 2002
The 1972 Olympic men's basketball final, in which Team USA suffered their first ever loss in Games competition, was one of the most controversial events in the history of both the Olympics and basketball.
08 January 2019
A documentary film exposing the truth about psychics and fortune-tellers. All the ins and outs of magical TV shows and services of the most famous psychics with evidence, names and prices.
10 April 2009
A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popular culture, brave but harmless warriors who helped change the fate of an entire nation.
31 December 1969
Short documentary about 50 years of history of Czechoslovakia, with archive images.
31 December 1973
Anonymous short documentary released immediately after the Chilean military coup of 1973. It recapitulates the presidency of Salvador Allende which was terminated by the military coup that assassinated him and installed a dictatorship.
21 January 2010
They were heroes of a special kind. They came from the steppes, the sons of farmers, of factory floor women.
07 February 1991
A 23-year-old man was tried for choosing poetry as his life's work. His poems and translations were professional.
11 December 1984
Correspondent Richard Reeves reports on the ongoing struggle of the Afghan Muslim resistance against the Soviet-backed government of Afghanistan.
20 October 1982
The film is dedicated to the 1500th anniversary of Kyiv.
01 January 1973
"This film documents President Nixon's 1972 trips to the People's Republic of China, the Soviet Union, Iran, Poland, and Austria.
12 November 1982
Dedicated to the memory of L.I. Brezhnev.
