https://mrqe.com Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:15:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes-m100140857/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes-m100140857/ The story of Chernobyl told through a newly discovered hoard of dramatic footage filmed at the nuclear plant during the disaster and deeply personal interviews of those who were there, directed by Emmy Award-winner and Russian-speaker James Jones.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/mr-landsbergis-m100138648/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/mr-landsbergis-m100138648/ This film about the Baltic nation of Lithuania from 1989 to 1991, when it broke away from the Soviet Union. This period of peaceful protests involving lots of singing came to be known as the “singing revolution.”

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/gorbachev-heaven-m100133137/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/gorbachev-heaven-m100133137/ An immersion into the intimacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR. The architect of perestroika and glasnost, who was praised in the West but reviled in his own country, still combative despite his advanced age, loneliness and illness, offers his personal and political testament.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/bully-coward-victim-the-story-of-roy-cohn-m100128934/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/bully-coward-victim-the-story-of-roy-cohn-m100128934/ Legendary and controversial attorney Roy Cohn was a power broker in the rough and tumble world of New York City business and politics. Senator Joseph R. McCarthys top counsel during investigations into Communist activities in the 1950s, Cohn is also known for being Donald Trumps former personal lawyer, fixer and mentor. Focusing on key periods of his life, and drawing on extensive, newly unearthed archival material, a new documentary on Cohns life will debut on HBO in 2019.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/meeting-gorbachev-m100124729/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/meeting-gorbachev-m100124729/ Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include the talks to reduce nuclear weapons, the reunification of Germany and the dissolution of his country.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/svideteli-putina-m100124342/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/svideteli-putina-m100124342/ Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin’s unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president of the country. From that day and for a year, Vitaly Mansky’s camera documented Putin’s rise to power. The story of a privileged witness. The harsh explanation of the reason why politics is the art of possibility of achieving the best with the support of many, but also of giving the worst in return.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/a-bitter-taste-of-freedom-m100095553/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/a-bitter-taste-of-freedom-m100095553/ In her quest to uncover the wrongdoings of the Russian authorities, Anna Politkovskaya inspired awe in some and fear in countless others. At age 48 she was assassinated for simply doing her job. This documentary is based on Anna’s conversations with filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya, Anna’s former university professor and personal friend. Shot over a period of 20 years, this exclusive footage creates an incredible story of a woman who consciously gave her life for her convictions.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/autobiografia-lui-nicolae-ceausescu-m100091281/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/autobiografia-lui-nicolae-ceausescu-m100091281/ The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceauescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the National Archives of Romania.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/freedoms-fury-m100040812/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/freedoms-fury-m100040812/ A documentary on the 1956 Olympic semifinal water polo match between Hungary and Russia. Held in Australia, the match occurred as Russian forces were in Budapest, stomping out a popular revolt.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/kinder-kader-kommandeure-m100063249/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/kinder-kader-kommandeure-m100063249/ DEFA documentary.

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