Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Documentaries at Georgetown University Library

All listed below are located in the Gelardin New Media Center, on the 1st floor of Lauinger Library.

More information about many of these films can be found by consulting GEORGE, the Georgetown University Library catalog.  New films are added to GEORGE weekly; if you are looking for a particular title not listed here, please consult GEORGE.  Additional films may be found in the Language Learning Technology Center. 

Titles cited are taken from the label or box, thus the romanization used may not be systematic, some have translated titles, etc.

Titles with are primarily musical, and titles with are subtitled in English.

If you have questions or comments, please contact BRENDA E. BICKETT, Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies Bibliographer, Georgetown University Library or NEVENKA ZDRAVKOVSKA, Liaison to Eurasian, Russian & East European Studies, Georgetown University Library.

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Documentary Title	Call Number
A
Afghanistan: Exporting the Taliban Revolution	VHS 4301
All the Best From Russia	VHS 445
Andrei Serban at work	VHS 7681
Andrzej Wajda: A Portrait	VHS 6273
Anna Akhmatova's File       see Lichnoe delo Anny Akhmatovoi
Anna: ot 6 do 18 = Anna: from 6 to 18	VHS 7122
Armenia: Genocide Denied	DVD 610
Ashkenaz: Eastern Europe	VHS 4673
Ataturk: Founder of Modern Turkey / directed by Taiquin Olivier	VHS 5310
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State / a KCET/BBC co-production	DVD 1283
B
Beirut to Bosnia : Muslims and the West : a Personal Journey	VHS 4293 pts.1-3
Berlin Airlift	VHS 6361
Behind the Veil: Afghan Women Under Fundamentalism	VHS 6215
Between two fires = Mezh dvukh ognei / directed by Douglas Smith	VHS 7716
Bonne Route       see Latcho Drom
Bosnia: Peace Without Honor	VHS 3473
Bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan / directed by Petr Lom	DVD 1505
Bringing Down a Dictator	VHS 6893
C
Chaikovskii = Tchaikovsky	DVD 366pts.1-2
Chernobyl: the Taste of Wormwood	VHS 386
Choreography by Balanchine	DVD 929 DVD 930
Cracow and its University	VHS 6272
Croatia: Land of 1,100 Islands and 101 Dalmatians	VHS 5262
The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962	VHS 4021
Czeslaw Milosz	VHS 1391
D
Document Russia	VHS 7110 pts.1-2
Das War die DDR : eine Geschichte des anderen Deutschland	VHS 4278 pts. 1-4
Daughters of Afghanistan / directed by Robin Benger	DVD 1597
E
Early Russian Cinema	VHS 1635 pts. 1-10
Eastern Europe	VHS 3428 pts. 1-3
Educating Yaprak / directed by Di Tatham	DVD 1585
El Lissitzky	VHS 1893
Exile in Buyukada; Leon Trotsky's exiled years in Istanbul	DVD 1157
F
Fall of the Romanov Dynasty, the	VHS 6933
Fall of Berlin, the      see Padenie Berlina
Forgotten People: the Sakhalin Koreans, a	VHS 7516
Frankfurt: the Euro-city / study of ethnic diversity and immigration in Frankfurt am Main	DVD 1375
From a Far Country : Pope John Paul II	VHS 3580
G
Genghis Blues	DVD 371
Genocide Factor, The // Includes: The Mongols, the Ukrainian Famine, the Holocaust, the Kurds, and the Former Yugoslavia	DVD 1632 vol 1-4
Ghost of Chernobyl	VHS 387
Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends but the Mountains	VHS 7162
Greetings from Grozny	VHS 7192
Gypsies and the Freedom to Hate	VHS 6894
H
Habiba: A Sufi Saint from Uzbekistan	VHS 6189
Harvest of Despair: the 1932-33 man-made famine in Ukraine	VHS 5178
Haus Des Meisters, das      see Master’s House
Hermitage: a Russian Odyssey	VHS 2380 pts. 1-3
Hungarian Uprising, 1956	VHS 2907
I
I thee wed: a study of international relations / directed by Keenan Sloan and Jessica Stewart	VHS 7770
J
Jews in Armenia: the Hidden Diaspora / directed by Vartan Akchyan	VHS 7769
Join me in Shambhala / directed by Anna Bernstein	VHS 6266
JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance	VHS 2319 pts. 1-30
K
Kabul, Kabul	VHS 6076
Kandahar	DVD 323
Khruschev, the Bear’s Embrace	VHS 420
Korczak	VHS 6282
L
Last Bolshevik	VHS 6615
Last Days, the / by Steven Spielberg / documentary on Hungarian Holocaust	VHS 5536
Latcho Drom = Bonne Route	VHS 3884 VHS 3884b
L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin	VHS 6922
Lichnoe Delo Anny Akhmatovoi	VHS 7181
Lodz Ghetto / by the Jewish Heritage Project	VHS 5563
M
Macedonia: More Than a Name	VHS 2908
Maison de Maitre, la      see Master’s House
Man of Iron	VHS 2272
Master’s House = Das Haus Des Meisters = La Maison de Maitre	VHS 6610
Mezh dvukh ognei = Between two fires / directed by Douglas Smith	VHS 7716
Month in the Life of Ephtim D: a Portrait of a Bulgarian Pensioner, November 5 – December 5, 1998, a	VHS 6468
Moon Heart: The Magical World of Tuvinian Shamans / directed by Constanzo Allione	VHS 5514
Moscou Parade	VHS 2834
Music Dances: Balanchine Choreographs Stravinsky / by Stephanie Jordan	VHS 7720
N
Naim and Jabar	VHS 5159
New Russian Revolution, The / CNN Special Report	VHS 7758
Norilsk: Surviving in a Frozen Desert = Norilsk: Life in the Arctic / directed by Amanda Rubin	VHS 7785
O
Oedipus Rex / by Igor Stravinsky	DVD 1496
Old Believers, The = Starovery / directed by John Paskievich	VHS 5773
One Day The Heart Opens: A Concert of Ethnic Music	VHS 4661
One World: The Republic of Turkey / produced by Martin Killeen	VHS 5895
Oto Warszawa = This is Warsaw / directed by Miroslawa Salickiego	VHS 6565
P
Padenie Berlina = The Fall of Berlin	VHS 2297 VHS 2835
Poland, a Proud Heritage	VHS 6271
Porraimos: Europe's Gypsies in the Holocaust	VHS 7363
Prague '68: Summer of Tanks	VHS 7197
R
Resurgence and Holy War: Russia, Indonesia	VHS 6206
Returning Home	VHS 6804
Road Scholar	VHS 6224
Rostov-Luanda	VHS 6936
Russia / a CTVC production directed by Geoff Dunlop	DVD 1349
Russia's new czars? / by Ed Bradley	VHS 7772
Russia's war: blood upon the snow / produced by Judith de Paul / episodes 1 and 9	VHS 6561
Russian Folk Song & Dance	VHS 426
S
Sarajevo Ground Zero: SAGA’s Films of Crime and Resistance	VHS 4515
Second Russian Revolution	VHS 2151 pts. 1-6
Secret Life of Sergei Eisenstein	VHS 2546
Secret of Nikola Tesla     see Tajna Nikole Tesle
Sergei Eisenstein in Alma-Ata / directed by Igor Gonopolsky	VHS 6148
Shostakovich	DVD 596
Sky : a silent witness, the	VHS 7315
Solidarity	VHS 2909
Soviet Army Chorus, Band and Dance Ensemble	VHS 427
Soviet Disunion: Ten Years Which Shook the World	VHS 4106
Soviet Perestroika and Information Revolution : some considerations	VHS 3282
Soviet Union	VHS 2761
Soviets: The True Story of Perestroika	VHS 6796 pts. 1-5
Spartacus – Ballet	VHS 221
Stalin, the Power of Fear	VHS 414
Stalingrad	VHS 2593
Starovery = Old Believers, The / directed by John Paskievich	VHS 5773
Stepinac: priest, cardinal, hero, saint...you choose	VHS 5263
Storm from the East	VHS 2080 pts. 1-4
Student of Prague	VHS 3931
Summer in Ivye	VHS 6909
Symphony no. 9 in E minor, op. 95: From the New World / Antonín Dvorák	DVD 600
T
Tajna Nikole Tesle = Secret of Nikola Tesla	VHS 7173
Tak zhit nelzia / by Stanislav Govorukhin	VHS 7752
Tchaikovsky      see Chaikovskii
Terror in the Balkans: the Breakup of Yugoslavia	VHS 2945
Theatre of Tadeusz Kantor, the = The Theatre de Tadeusz Kantor	VHS 7147
This is Warsaw = Oto Warszawa / directed by Miroslawa Salickiego	VHS 6565
Transnistria: the Hell	VHS 6712
Turksib = Dzhim shvante = Sol Svanetii = Salt for Svanetia / directed by Mikhail Kalatozov	VHS 7727
U
Ulysses’ Gaze	VHS 6245 pts. 1-2
V
W
Waiting for Uighurstan / by Sean R. Roberts	VHS 7722
We Are All Neighbors	VHS 3152
We Don’t Want to Live on Our Knees	VHS 2910
When the Wall Came Tumbling Down = 50 Hours that Changed the World / by Hans Hermann Hetle	VHS 7723
Where the Eagles Fly: Portraits of Women of Power       see Habiba: A Sufi Saint from Uzbekistan
Wild East, the: Portrait of an Urban Nomad	VHS 5079
World in Focus: the Baltic States of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania	VHS 1419
Y
Yugoslav Crisis: Past and Future	VHS 3030
Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation	VHS 2723 pts. 1-3

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