Stalin: Man of Steel (2003)
Overview
Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head of the Soviet Union. With a captivating blend of period documents, newly-released information, newsreel and archival footage and interviews with experts, the program examines his rise to power, deconstructs the cult of personality that helped him maintain an iron grip over his vast empire, and analyzes the policies he introduced, including the deadly expansion of the notorious gulags where he banished so many of his countrymen to certain death.
Cast
Edward Herrmann
Narrator (voice)
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Lenin
Self (archive footage)
Lev Kopelev
Self
Dodo Chichinadze
Self
Edvard Radzinsky
Self
Alexander Burdonsky
Self
Dmitry Likhachev
Self
Genrikh Yagoda
Self (archive footage)
Boris Efimov
Self
Leon Trotsky
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Alexander Yakovlev
Self
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Self (archive footage)Recommendations
