Leonid Khmara

People's Avengers

About the partisan movement during the Great Patriotic War.

Ural Forges Victory

About the industrial history of the Urals and the contribution of the industrial enterprises of the Urals to the struggle against Nazi Germany.

Russia's Heart

Reminiscing the 1917 Russian October Revolution, a time when the films' director was 14 years old.

The Fall of Berlin

A Soviet documentary chronicling the final assault on Nazi Germany’s capital. More than forty frontline cameramen from the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts captured the battle and its aftermath, supplemented with seized German footage. The film records the destruction of Berlin and the symbolic collapse of Hitler’s regime, standing as both a historical chronicle and a work of Soviet wartime cinema.

Front-line Cameraman

A tribute to Soviet cameraman Vladimir Sushchinsky, killed in the liberation of Breslau in 1945, featuring his funeral and final footage by fallen colleagues. The film honors the 252 front-line cameramen of the Central Documentary Film Studio, one in five of whom died while recording the war, leaving behind millions of meters of film and hundreds of newsreels as a lasting record of the conflict.

The Caspian Story

A story of the exploits carried out by the oil technicians of Baku for the exploitation of the black gold deposit of the Caspian Sea.

Live, Ukraine

World Without a Game

Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema.

First Flight to the Stars

The history of the Soviet space program and the flight of the world's first manned spacecraft "Vostok" piloted by Yuri Gagarin.

To The Stars Again

Documentary about preparation for Vostok 2 space mission, launched on August 6 of 1961 with cosmonaut Gherman Titov on board.