Archive for May 20th, 2008
Russia’s Commanding Heights
By Sean at 20 May, 2008, 12:29 pm
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 [...]
Read More >>New Film: Letter to Anna
By Sean at 20 May, 2008, 9:33 am
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 [...]
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