Stalin: Man of Steel (2003)

Director: Peter Adler

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.

Cast

Edward Herrmann

Narrator (voice)

Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin

Self (archive footage)

Lev Kopelev

Self

Dodo Chichinadze

Self

Lev Razgon

Self

Leonid Zamyatin

Self

Edvard Radzinsky

Self

Alexander Burdonsky

Self

Dmitry Likhachev

Self