
Stalin: Man of Steel
Documentary · History
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.
Top Cast


Edward Herrmann
Edward Herrmann
Narrator (voice)
Edward Herrmann
Narrator (voice)


Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)


Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Lenin
Self (archive footage)


Lev Kopelev
Lev Kopelev
Self
Lev Kopelev
Self


Dodo Chichinadze
Dodo Chichinadze
Self
Dodo Chichinadze
Self
Lev Razgon
Lev Razgon
Self
Lev Razgon
Self
Leonid Zamyatin
Leonid Zamyatin
Self
Leonid Zamyatin
Self


Edvard Radzinsky
Edvard Radzinsky
Self
Edvard Radzinsky
Self


Alexander Burdonsky
Alexander Burdonsky
Self
Alexander Burdonsky
Self


Dmitry Likhachev
Dmitry Likhachev
Self
Dmitry Likhachev
Self
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