Siege of Leningrad during World War II. Filmed by cameramen-heroes. Without words, without music, only sounds and pictures of a dying city. Or a city trying to survive.

The Tankograd documentary takes places many years after the Cold War. A young generation of Russians face a heavy legacy from the old USSR. Radioactive accidents, leaks and waste from the production of atomic bombs have made their city the most radioactively contaminated place on earth. Curiously, the city also has one of Russia's most vibrant dance scenes.

In 2001, near Pskov, at an air show, a disaster occurred in front of 10,000 spectators. The crash of the plane, which was controlled by Timur Apakidze, was filmed by dozens of cameras. The film also contains the voice of Apakidze himself, who, shortly before his death, as if anticipating it, managed to talk about how the pilot feels in an emergency flight, being on the verge of life and death. And how painful is the choice between ejection-life and the desire to save the plane.

Three stories, three families, three women. Their husbands were passengers of the Tu-154 that crashed in Sochi on December 25, 2016.

Imagine Slovenia completely uninhabitable. Such is the territory of the Semipalatinsk test site. In these 18.5 thousand square kilometers, the atom was not peaceful. For 40 years, from 1949 to 1989, more than 500 nuclear and thermonuclear explosions thundered here, including the most powerful of the ground ones. How does this land live now, and will it ever be habitable? The film crew of the program "Aggressive Environment" visited one of the most radioactive places on the planet.

While researching a secret Soviet antenna at Chernobyl, which interrupted global radio communications from 1976 – 1989, Fedor Alexandrovich uncovers a dark conspiracy. The scientists and military men dismiss his warnings that Russia is behind a massive cover-up and he descends into a nightmare where he battles the antenna on his own terms. When he is invited to address the crowds in Kiev’s Revolution Square during height of the protests, he fears that powerful men may kill him if he speaks out.

Monochrome contrasting winter landscape, shot in Kyshtym, on both sides of the Techa riverbed, in the Southern Urals. This area, equal to 23,000 square kilometers, is one of the most radioactively contaminated in the world. Regular operation and several major accidents at the Mayak nuclear power plant have resulted in water, soil and air pollution. However, people living here are constantly exposed to radiation. Neither distress signals nor rumors about the consequences of the catastrophic explosion in 1957 are spread by local residents, meanwhile, after Chernobyl and Fukushima, the disaster in Kyshtym is considered the third worst disaster in the history of nuclear energy. One of the most serious nuclear accidents on Earth remained hidden from the public. Today, 55 years after these apocalyptic events, the struggle of the people who live here is more than just survival.

March 11, 2011. What happened that day in Japan seemed absolutely impossible, but it turned out to be completely real. What is the future for the people of Fukushima? Will they be able to live a normal life? And will there be an end to the dark tunnel in which they, and indeed all of Japan, found themselves? The greatest nuclear tragedy occurred at the Chernobyl power plant in 1986. And I decided to go to Chernobyl to find answers to the questions that tormented me. I wanted to see with my own eyes the consequences and perhaps overcome them. I wanted to find a way out for the Fukushima people. You can't bring back the past, the clock won't turn back, and the only thing left for us is to move forward.

In December 1941, the Nazis shot 4,500 people in Yalta. Most of them were Jews. The Soviet government did not want to bury these people. Even the obelisk at the place of execution was erected after the war with the money of the relatives of the victims. In July 1994, Mikhail Degtyar came to this execution pit and saw a terrible picture, namely, skulls, bones, documents of people shot 53 years ago were scattered very close to the Yalta International Hotel. After 9 years, Mikhail Degtyar again returned to the place of execution of the Yalta Jews. What has changed during this time?

A film about people and about a city that is lost in time and space. About how quickly life can change, and about how even after the irreparable, some things remain unchanged. The film is based on the events that are the result of the shelling of the Vostochny residential area of the city of Mariupol on January 24, 2015. The shelling was carried out from the Grad multiple launch rocket systems from the territory occupied by pro-Russian militants.

Over the long history of mankind, natural disasters, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, tornadoes, earthquakes have claimed a huge number of human lives. To what extent now, in the 21st century, is science able to withstand these disasters? Has humanity learned to notice, see and analyze the secret signs of the Earth that portend such catastrophes?

A documentary investigation of a sensational event hidden from society for forty years, namely, the jump of two Soviet paratroopers, Pyotr Dolgov and Evgeny Andreev, from the stratosphere from a height of 25 km. The secrecy of this experiment, conducted in 1962, and the death of one of Dolgov's testers deprived the heroes of their well-deserved fame. The investigation conducted by the author of the film, the analysis of materials declassified on his initiative, made it possible to restore the details of the event and return the names of the heroes to the public

In 1992, during the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict, the famous Sukhumi monkey nursery was at the epicenter of military events. The fighting took place not only on the neighboring streets of Sukhumi, but also directly on the territory of the nursery. Some of the monkeys were transported by the staff to Russia, to a branch of the institute in Adler. Unfortunately, it was not possible to save all primates. Hundreds of monkeys died, unable to endure the cold, hunger, stress. The history of the monkey nursery from Sukhumi is not only another drama of the collision of the world of people and the world of nature. This is a fairly accurate reflection of what happens to the human community itself in the so-called "hot spots".

Much has been said about World War II, but not much more has been said. The film shows the war through the eyes of German soldiers. This is a story about a fateful fatal mistake of choice that caused the most brutal war in the history of mankind.

A film that tells the story of American journalist Walter Duranty, who worked from 1922 to 1936 as New York Times Moscow bureau chief. Duranty knew the truth about the massive famine deaths in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. But he was silent about it. And he even issued a refutation of information about these deaths leaked to the Western press.

Documentary six-part film about the concentration camps Auschwitz, Salaspils, Trostenets and others. The history of the emergence of concentration camps, their "evolution" from the first, the time of the Anglo-Boer War, to the concentration camps of the Third Reich. They are the main focus. Moreover, the main material for the film was the stories of surviving prisoners of concentration camps and surviving former guards, the interweaving of destinies, unique little-known facts, for example, VIP camps on the territory of Nazi Germany, etc.

This film is a challenge to the civilized world, which is unable to stop the bloody ivory business. This is an accusation of the inefficiency of many non-governmental organizations involved in the conservation of rare endangered species of plants and animals, but in fact they are inactive. This film is an exposure of the corruption that is eating away at the African continent.

To return the war of 1914 to our historical memory, to remember its great battles and bitter defeats, its heroes is the main task of the film. The tape uses documentary footage of the First World War. Moreover, when off-screen the announcer talks about the division of forces, the confrontation of countries, the military threat looming over the world, on the screen there is a chronicle of peaceful life, fashion shows, girls swimming in the river, passers-by on beautiful streets. The actions of all countries, subtle political moves, diplomatic tricks are described in detail.

Thirty-year-old Igor, who received two higher educations, has been living illegally in the Chernobyl zone for seven years now. All he wants is to find peace and an opportunity to move away from civilization. Igor is tormented by a number of psychological problems, both personal and global. A harmonizing world, eternal emotionality and the existential mystery of human existence coexist in it at the same time. Igor is surrounded by elderly residents of the Chernobyl zone. They seem to live in an unreal Atlantis, from where even the war going on in Ukraine seems to be something unreal, taking place on another planet.

This film was created on the basis of 100 fates from 100 interviews. The Second World War. Great Migration of Nations. People traveled to the East hoping to return home in three months. But three months turned into four years of hard work and deprivation. And for many, the evacuation turned out to be life-long. How did the evacuated enterprises that worked for the front affect the development of cities, regions, territories, and the history of the country?