Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) led the Soviet Union as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and as chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev stunned the communist world with his denunciation of Stalin's crimes and began de-Stalinization. He sponsored the early Soviet space program, and enactment of relatively liberal reforms in domestic policy. After some false starts, and a narrowly avoided nuclear war over Cuba, he conducted successful negotiations with the United States to reduce Cold War tensions. His proclivity toward recklessness led the Kremlin leadership to strip him of power, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5698 |
| Birthday | 1894-04-15 |
| Place of Birth | Kalinovka, Dmitriyev Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Khomutovka Raion, Kursk Oblast, Russia] |
| Also Known As | Nikita Krushchev, Nikita Krutchev, Nikita Khrouchtchev, Никита Сергеевич Хрущёв, Н. Хрущёв, Н. Хрущев, Никита Хрущев, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, |
2015
The End of a Beautiful Epoch
6.3/17
Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.
Watch Now
The End of a Beautiful Epoch
2020
Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party
8/1
Watch Now
Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party
2023
In the Grip of Gazprom
8/2
The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly it became clear how dependent countries had become...
Watch Now
In the Grip of Gazprom
2012
The Man Who Saved the World
8/2
During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuclear strike and saved the world from nuclear war a...
Watch Now
The Man Who Saved the World
1995
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
7.274/62
"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of nuclear weapons development and testing between 1...
Watch Now
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
1996
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
0/0
Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the map of Eastern Europe and parts of Asia in the 20th...
Watch Now
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
1962
The Seven Deadly Sins
5.868/19
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates i...
Watch Now
The Seven Deadly Sins
1982
The Atomic Cafe
7.329/76
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was no...
Watch Now
The Atomic Cafe
2014
Cold War Roadshow
0/0
Cold War Roadshow tells the story of one of the most bizarre episodes in the annals of modern history — the unprecedented barnstorming across America...
Watch Now
Cold War Roadshow
2010
How to Win the TV Debate
0/0
With Britain's first-ever political leaders' television debate imminent, award-winning reporter Michael Cockerell uncovers what it's like to take part...
Watch Now
How to Win the TV Debate
1999
Die Sekretäre
0/0
The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In succession, over long stretches even together, Ulb...
Watch Now
Die Sekretäre
2022
Rat Pack
9/2
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bish...
Watch Now
Rat Pack
2021
A History of an Assignment
0/0
1962 year. Cuban Missile Crisis. The world is on the brink of nuclear disaster. Khrushchev has no leverage over the stubborn commander. The only thing...
Watch Now
A History of an Assignment
2003
The Fog of War
7.705/298
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from wo...
Watch Now
The Fog of War
1960
Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev
5.2/4
A cut-out of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sails over newspaper articles as they take place. Combines live photography and collage animation in one...
Watch Now
Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev
2002
Dark Side of the Moon
7.144/45
A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the titl...
Watch Now
Dark Side of the Moon
1968
A Wall in Jerusalem
8/1
A brilliant documentary about the growth of Israel into the Jewish homeland. Seventy-three years of struggle for religious freedom is vividly recorded...
Watch Now
A Wall in Jerusalem
1989
Is Stalin With Us?
8/1
A documentary shows several contemporary Soviet citizens who are staunch supporters of the discredited Stalin. They include a public prosecutor, a fac...
Watch Now
Is Stalin With Us?
2009
It Felt Like a Kiss
6.5/32
The story of America's rise to power starting with 1959, using archival footage and US pop music to highlight the consequences to the rest of the worl...
Watch Now
It Felt Like a Kiss
2016
Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes
8/1
Historian Andrew Cohen discusses Robert Drew's 1963 documentary Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment.
Watch Now
Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes
2019
How the Moon Conquered Pop
7/2
Musicians inspired by the Moon. Since the Apollo landings, the Moon has entered popular consciousness like never before. A journey through pop music's...
Watch Now
How the Moon Conquered Pop
2019
Cold Case Hammarskjöld
6.755/47
Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18, 1961. Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN, dies my...
Watch Now
Cold Case Hammarskjöld
2019
Moon: The Battles of Space
8.5/2
July 20, 1969. Apollo 11 lands on the surface of the Moon. Such a feat was apparently performed to the greater glory of all mankind, but actually it m...
Watch Now
Moon: The Battles of Space
2019
I Invite You to My Execution
7/3
As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago is published in the Soviet Union, because it suppo...
Watch Now
I Invite You to My Execution
2020
Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
7.5/4
How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north of...
Watch Now
Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
2012
Palme
7.6/32
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of Sweden...
Watch Now
Palme
2020
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
7.1/8
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over t...
Watch Now
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
1963
La Rabbia
7.034/29
Documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by dis...
Watch Now
La Rabbia
2019
Korea: The Never-Ending War
7.8/13
Shedding new light on a geopolitical hot spot, the film — written and produced by John Maggio and narrated by Korean-American actor John Cho — confron...
Watch Now
Korea: The Never-Ending War
2018
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
7/1
The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental...
Watch Now
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
2007
Sputnik Mania
7/1
Fifty years ago, at the height of the Cold War, the USSR launched Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the earth, bringing America to its knees in aw...
Watch Now
Sputnik Mania
2007
Oswald's Ghost
6/4
For the Baby Boomers, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy took on the same sense of tragedy as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks did...
Watch Now
Oswald's Ghost
2011
Reagan
6.1/20
Based on the story of Americas enigmatic career of one of the revered architects of the modern world - icon, screen star, and two-term president, Rona...
Watch Now
Reagan
2019
The Spy Who Fell to Earth
6.7/36
Based on Dr. Ahron Bregman's book, this documentary examines the life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian billionaire and double agent.
Watch Now
The Spy Who Fell to Earth
2017
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
7/2
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was s...
Watch Now
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
2017
El Che
5.8/5
Ernesto "Che" Guevara's controversial story told by the Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II. He revisits places where the guerrilla and revolutionary...
Watch Now
El Che
2019
State Funeral
6.6/34
The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Stalin’s funeral. The film is based on unique archive footage, shot in the US...
Watch Now
State Funeral
2013
Khrushchev Does America
6.5/1
The story of the unconditional, no-holds-barred tour of America by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, leader of World Communism and America's arch neme...
Watch Now
Khrushchev Does America
1953
Velikoye proshchaniye
5.5/1
March 9th, 1953. A gray, sad day. Clouds float low over the Kremlin towers. A city that unrecognizably grew, prettier and matured - this Moscow froze...
Watch Now
Velikoye proshchaniye
1959
Kinoreportazh Nr. 1
0/0
This newsreel presents the one and only visit to Albania by Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. But behind the bear hugs and airport kisses, Enver Hoxha...
Watch Now
Kinoreportazh Nr. 1
2024
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
7.779/68
Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War.
Watch Now
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
1937
Bogatyrs Of The Motherland
0/0
Watch Now
Bogatyrs Of The Motherland
2011
Никита Хрущев: Взгляд из-за бугра
5/1
Documentary film about Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev
Watch Now
Никита Хрущев: Взгляд из-за бугра
2002
Naqoyqatsi
6.149/154
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
Watch Now
Naqoyqatsi
1962
Law of Baseness
0/0
Taking the viewer on a tour through several African nations and using the full range of agit-prop aesthetics in its imagery, didactic voice-over and m...
Watch Now
Law of Baseness
2014
Året var 1964
0/0
1964 - the year when Astrid Lindgren's 'Vi på Saltkråkan' is shown on TV, UN Swedes smuggle weapons, Khrushchev is visiting, car testing starts, the K...
Watch Now
Året var 1964
2002
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
8/1
illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, swinging 1960s. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, "Reel...
Watch Now
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2025
America at War
8/2
An examination of the United States’ involvement in war, focusing on its impact on political decisions, national identity, and the lives of its people...
Watch Now
America at War
1945
All-Union Physical Culture Parade
0/0
Watch Now
All-Union Physical Culture Parade
1961
Man Comes Back from Space
0/0
On 12 April 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to journey into outer space.
Watch Now
Man Comes Back from Space
1992
The JFK Conspiracy
7.333/3
Up to now, no one knows the truth about the JFK assassination. But now, in a fast-paced two-hours, learn what really happened, who ordered it, and how...
Watch Now
The JFK Conspiracy
2019
1964: Brazil between weapons and books
7.4/7
We question the most unquestionable period in our history. The result was an international investigation with part of secret attempts, discovery of So...
Watch Now
1964: Brazil between weapons and books
1992
The Missiles of October: What the World Didn't Know
0/0
This documentary by ABC News commemorates the 30th anniversary of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. It provides a behind-the-scenes look at how close the...
Watch Now
The Missiles of October: What the World Didn't Know
2026
A State Film
0/0
Through rare archive footage, the documentary traces the forty years of Enver Hoxha's communist regime in Albania, revealing cinema as a weapon of pow...
Watch Now
A State Film
2019
Георг Отс. Публика ждёт...
0/0
Watch Now