Watch towers, barbed wire, brutality and starvation at every turn. Those signature images are familiar to viewers of the many Hollywood films about the Holocaust. But when it comes to the Soviet gulag ...

“It’s based on a true story.” Or “It’s truth, but stranger than fiction.” Or even, “You couldn’t make it up.” When Peter Weir gets sent film scripts these days, most of them advertise themselves as ...

A film about one man's escape from a Russian Gulag will be the only British feature to compete for the Best Documentary prize at this year's Raindance Film Festival. Stuart Urban, the director of cult ...

Mystery surrounds an Oscar-tipped epic about a group of prisoners who escape a Soviet gulag and trek 4,500 miles to freedom. Some feel The Way Back, starring Irish actors Colin Farrell and 16-year-old ...

MARRAKECH, Morocco — Pavel Lungin (“Taxi Blues,” “Luna Park”), one of the key filmmakers of the new Russian cinema that emerged in the early 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is currently ...

This documentary tells the human stories of the last women survivors of the Gulag. Paul Gregory and Marianna Yarovskaya interviewed women survivors of the Gulag, who are in their late 90s. Their ...

The Gulag, the system of concentration camps through which the Soviet Union carried out murderous political repression, is something many Russians and Ukrainians would rather forget. But while the ...

BERLIN – For the last six years, for Europe’s movie community at least, the most famous political prisoner in the world was the Ukraine’s Oleg Sentsov. Arrested on trumped-up charges of terrorism in ...