Films for Thought

The Path to Nuclear Fission: The Story of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn

The Path to Nuclear Fission: The Story of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn is a portrait of the life and times of two remarkable scientists and their extraordinary collaboration... More »

OUT FROM THE SHADOWS: THE STORY OF IRÈNE JOLIOT-CURIE AND FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT-CURIE

Using newsreels, family home movies and stills, stock footage, dramatization and interviews, this biography relates the life and times of Irène Joliot-Curie and her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Though less well known than those of Irène’s parents, Marie and Pierre Curie, the Joliot-Curies’ discoveries were of equal significance.... More »

Widow of the Revolution: The Anna Larina Story

Anna Larina was the young bride of Nikolai Bukharin, one of the top ten Bolsheviks in the early years of the Russian Revolution. This documentary is based on her memorable autobiography... More »

Where Birds Never Sang: The Ravensbrüeck and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camps

Seventy-six kilometers north of Berlin is a pastoral setting accessible by a road that winds through a woods of pine trees, with splashes of wild flowers leading down to a lake. There, one can recline on the sandy beach and look across to the medieval town of Fürstenberg... More »

Russia Betrayed?

Filmed during the last few months prior to the 1996 Russian presidential election, when four opposition candidates to Boris Yeltsin were running for president of Russia. Most Americans were unaware of these opposition leaders. Russian scholar Stephen F. Cohen interviews the oppositionists: Aleksandr Lebed, Gennady Zyuganov, Grigory Yavlinsky and Aleksandr Rutskoi.... More »

Conversations with Gorbechev

Rosemarie Reed’s 1994 documentary Conversations with Gorbachev sheds light on world events from the first-hand perspective of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, as interviewed by Professor of Russian and Soviet Studies at NYU and Princeton, Stephen F. Cohen.... More »