The Temple in Salina will take a look back in time for one night this week as it shows a 1920s-era silent film Friday. Released just two years after construction was completed on the historic Masonic ...

“Podnieks on Podnieks” is the story of a phenomenally influential Latvian documentarian who is remembered by relatively few today – but whose work was once seen by over 40 million people in the former ...

The Cold War is over. There is an entire generation of adults who never lived in a world with a Berlin Wall, or a Soviet Union. Of course, for many years, films related to the tenuous dynamic between ...

When I was an undergrad in film school, one of the pillar courses was a two-semester film history class that would act as a broad survey to give us a foundation as aspiring filmmakers and workers.

Soviet cinema has long been an integral part of New Year's holidays: these films are loved and watched on a festive night, New Year's holidays, or in the background while cooking olivier. Watching ...

The Soviet government ordered the film, produced by Mosfilm, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the 1905 Potemkin uprising, which Lenin regarded as proof that sections of the armed forces could side ...

Thikon Khrennikov is now 91 years old, but as the first Secretary of the Union Composers - he was the bureaucrat who made life miserable for both Shostakovich and Prokofiev during the most terrifying ...

Red Army nurse's song = Pesniiai voennoi. sestry Kr[asnoi.] Armii -- Red Army nurses arrive at the front = Voennye sestry Kr[asnoi.] Armii pribyli na front -- Youth = Molodezhnaiiai -- Enthusiasm ...