Roman Karmen Movies

About the defense of Moscow in the winter of 1941-1942.

“The Magic Beam” is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of...

Frustration of the German attempt to capture Leningrad, 1941, the besieging of the city.

This Soviet-made film was screened on February 19, 1946 on the 62nd day of the Nuremberg Trial and submitted as evidence relevant to the indictment...

The Spanish Civil War—newsreels filmed by Roman Karmen in 1937–38—was a defining experience: faces at war, privately witnessed...

On August 24th of 1940 a group of cameramen cross the immense territory of the Soviet Union before it was attacked by Nazi Germany, and capture...

Roman Karmen's documentary on the political turmoil of 1970s Latin America.

A Soviet documentary by Roman Karmen and Mikhail Slutsky, assembled from 1938–41 footage in Yan’an and at the front, chronicling...

Story of the First Indochina War (1946-1954) in which Soviet Union has actively supported Vietnamese side.

Made by the highly influential Russian cameraman Roman Karmen, this documentary vividly features Albanian life immediately after the communists came...

The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Roman Carmen. The authors tracked down his former students, whom he brought to the...

Documentary about East Berlin, commemorating 20th anniversary of German Democratic Republic formation.

First feature motion picture photographed in Kinopanorama, the Soviet equivalent of Cinerama.