Category: Documentary
Independent Sources: The Black Russians
On this edition of Independent Sources hosted by Garry Pierre-Pierre, Zyphus Lebrun interviews a filmmaker, Yelena Demikovsky who is producing a documentary about the African Americans who sought refuge in Russia from the US’ Jim Crow system of segregation. Sarah Pizon speaks to Dr. Marta Morena Vega and Desiree Gordon about the multi-million dollar relocation and renovation of one of the country’s leading institutes for Afro Latino culture. …
Lev Zilber, the father of Soviet immunology | RT Documentary
Virus Whisperer – a new RT Documentary tells the life story of Lev Zilber – a legendary Soviet virologist and immunologist who laid the foundation for many therapeutic approaches, including the plasma anti-body transfusions used to treat COVID-19 patients today. He was arrested three times and exiled to a Gulag. …
I’ve been vaccinated with the Russian Sputnik-V coronavirus vaccine| In a Nutshell
Russia’s Sputnik-V vaccine against coronavirus has been heavily criticised in the West, but are their doubts justified? RT Documentary’s Konstantin Rozhkov gets down to the nitty gritty of the Russian vaccine and the global vaccine race, as he becomes a test subject in the Phase 3 trials of the Russian coronavirus vaccine. …
Finding the Fallen
Over the past six years, some 120,000 bodies of missing WWII soldiers were recovered by Russian volunteers dedicated to bringing lost fighters home. These groups of enthusiasts operate on land, and also at sea, looking for the wrecks of ships and submarines, to honor the crews’ memory. The RTD documentary Finding the Fallen tells the story of their work. …
Propaganda factory: Hollywood at the service of American politics
Through the years, Hollywood has been the US government’s closest partner in furthering its political agenda. If national interests so required, American film studios were eager to rewrite history, portray former allies as enemies, promote unsavory political decisions and even blacklist its own actors and screenwriters for their views. A new facet of the dream factory comes to light. …