Roland Sejko’s doc “A State Film,” culled from a vast archive of official footage made under the regime of Albanian strongman Enver Hoxha, is a fascinating study in the power of image and myth.

The film recounts the story of the outgunned and outmanned Panfilov rifle division, which was defending Moscow's western front. In a controversial new Russian film, 28 Soviet soldiers facing sure ...

James Lloydovich Patterson, the son of an African American father and a Russian mother who became a celebrated child actor of the Stalinist era for his role in a 1930s propaganda film mythologizing ...