May
20
Russia’s Commanding Heights
May 20, 2008 | 5 Comments
I found a great PBS documentary called Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy while searching for video for a lecture on the Yeltsin years. PBS has put all the film’s chapters online, and I wanted to let readers know about the segments on Russia:
Communism on the Heights, 6:16
The Ghosts of Norilsk, 4:27
Behind the [...]
May
20
New Film: Letter to Anna
May 20, 2008 | 6 Comments
The Moscow Times has a review of Letter to Anna, a new documentary by Swiss director Eric Bergkraut on the life, work, and death of Anna Politkovskaya. Bergkraut met Politkovskaya while making his award winning film Coca: The Dove From Chechnya, which chronicled the efforts of Zainap Gashaeva and other Chechen women to [...]
