Leonid Khmara

A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man.

Reminiscing the 1917 Russian October Revolution, a time when the films' director was 14 years old.

The 1961 Nominee of the Palme d'Or as the Best Short Film.

The history of the Soviet space program and the flight of the world's first manned spacecraft "Vostok" piloted by Yuri Gagarin.

Documentary about preparation for Vostok 3 abd Vostok 4 space missions, with cosmonauts Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich on board.

A feature on Soviet space exploration on the 50th anniversary of the Russian Socialist Revolution.

A rare Soviet documentary film from 1951, directed by Pavel Klushantsev. It explores the history of humanity’s study of the universe, from ancient astronomy to modern understandings of the solar system, examining the structure of the cosmos, the planets, and advances in scientific space research.

Young ballet artists from across the Soviet Union showcase their skills at the All-Union Festival of Choreographic Schools.

Filmmakers from the Central Studio of Documentary Films track down the children who starred in the Pioneeria documentary series a decade earlier.

Moscow during the Sixth World Festival of Youth and Students. Performances by circus artists from different countries on various stages: at the circus, in the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure, at the operetta theater, etc.

Documentary about preparation for Vostok 2 space mission, launched on August 6 of 1961 with cosmonaut Gherman Titov on board.

A tribute to Soviet cameraman Vladimir Sushchinsky, killed in the liberation of Breslau in 1945, featuring his funeral and final footage by fallen colleagues. The film honors the 252 front-line cameramen of the Central Documentary Film Studio, one in five of whom died while recording the war, leaving behind millions of meters of film and hundreds of newsreels as a lasting record of the conflict.

This film consists of three parts. The first dramatizes the life of the founder of Soviet astronautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky; the second describes the development of rocket technology; and the third visualizes the future with enactments of the first manned spaceflight, spacewalk, space station construction and humans on the moon.

A film essay about the daily experiences of schoolchildren across the Soviet Union.

A documentary about the reopening of Moscow's GUM, the largest department store in the Soviet Union.

The film is about the encirclement and defeat of the Iasi-Kishinev group of German troops during the Second World War by Soviet troops.

A documentary on the history of the Red Army, from the Russian Civil War to the end of the Second World War.

An overview of the history of Moscow from the October Revolution to postwar reconstruction.

Soviet documentary about customs and nature of the people's Republic of Mali

A Soviet documentary surveying the liberation of France, from D-Day landings and partisan actions to the entry into Paris. Edited at TsSDF from footage shot by French, British, American, Soviet—and captured German—cameramen, it blends frontline combat and city-by-city liberation with portraits of French cultural landmarks and daily life returning after occupation.

Documentary footage of Soviet Air Forces parade held on 9 July 1961 on Tushino airfield.