Cosmic Journey (Kosmicheskiy Reys: Fantasticheskaya Novella) (1936)

Que Viva Mexico (1932)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Grigori Aleksandrov, Sara Garcia, Martin Hernandez

The astonishing images of Sergei Eisenstein's long-lost history of Mexico, unfinished due to financial problems, are restored with the help of the film's original editor, Grigory Alexandrov. A quartet ... more

$29.99

Ivan The Terrible, Part 2 (1946)

Category: Foreign | Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White / Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Serafima Birman, Mikhail Nazvanov, Nikolay Cherkasov

The concluding chapter in Eisenstein's film biography follows Ivan's battle against enemies inside the Russia he has tenuously brought together. Includes the lavish banquet sequence, filmed in color. ... more

$24.99

Animated Soviet Propaganda

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White / Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format:

"Better dead than Red"? Not according to this four-disc set of Soviet propaganda films, an engrossing compilation of animated indoctrination spanning six decades of Russian history, from the October ... more

$89.99

The Road To Life (1931)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Nikolai Batalov, Yvan Kyrlya, Mikhail Dzhagofarov

The first talking feature in Russian cinema, this drama focuses on a group of orphan boys left wandering the countryside in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. With little to no sustenance, the ... more

Regularly $19.99 $15.99

Robots Of Ripley (1935)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Vladimir Gardin, Sergei Vecheslov, Maria Volgina

This rare early sci-fi allegory from the Soviet Union, set in an unnamed "capitalist land," shows what happens when an army of robots is built to replace human assembly line workers. The displaced proletariat ... more

Regularly $19.99 $18.99

The Fall Of Berlin (Padeniye Berlina) (1949)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Boris Andreyev

See World War II through the eyes of Joseph Stalin! The Soviet dictator reportedly worked on the script for this lavishly mounted blockbuster, which depicts Stalin as a hero, Hitler as a surreal buffoon, ... more

$34.99

The Cranes Are Flying (1957)

Category: Foreign | Director: Mikheil Kalatozishvili | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Tatyana Samoilova, Alexei Batalov, Vasili Merkuriev

Moving Russian drama that garnered several international film awards. Tatyana Samojlova stars as a young woman whose fiance goes off to fight in World War II and is killed in battle. Alexi Batalov, ... more

$29.99

Quiet Flows The Don (Tikhiy Don) (1957)

Category: Foreign | Director: Sergei Gerasimov | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Igor Dmitriyev, Vadim Zakharchenko, Yelena Maksimova

Dubbed "a Soviet 'Gone with the Wind'" by foreign critics, director Sergei Gerasimov's sweeping drama depicts the tumult of 20th-century Russia's first two decades, from World War I to the Communist ... more

$39.99

Ballad Of A Soldier (Criterion Collection) (1959)

Category: Foreign | Director: Grigori Chukhraj | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maximova

The adventures of a young soldier on leave during World War II is the simple plot for one of the most moving films of the Russian cinema. Vladimir Ivashov stars in the title role; directed by Grigori ... more

$29.99