Tania Rakhmanova (Writing)

Israel and the Palestinians: The Road to 7th October

A new documentary series chronicling the decisions that have shaped Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the past two decades.

Release Date:2025-02-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

The Iron Curtain: Tales of Soviet Occupation

How did the Soviet Union impose its communist ideology on central and eastern Europe after the Second World War? From 1945 until the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, citizens of central and eastern Europe tell their stories of how their countries were occupied and transformed into communist states.

Release Date:2024-10-15

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:5

Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System

After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Mao Tsetung established a system of labor camps for systematic repression, known as Laogai, an abbreviation for "Reform Through Labor". In such camps, forced labor and physical and mental torture were used to bring about a so-called mental reform, re-education in the spirit of the Chinese Communist Party. Millions of Chinese were affected. Many were executed. In hundreds of camps, the Party took advantage of the prisoners' free labor to build the economy. Self-criticism and denunciation were often the only way to escape martyrdom. Successive waves of purges culminated in the Cultural Revolution, which saw massive human rights abuses, political assassinations, massacres, and exiles in remote parts of the country. Using unreleased archive footage, the documentary tells the story of the invention, development and improvement of China's totalitarian system of surveillance and repression up to the present day, never told before.

Release Date:2023-03-28

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:2

Trump Takes On the World

After one of the most shocking presidencies in history, Donald Trump’s top advisers and the leaders who clashed with him lift the lid on the critical moments of his foreign policy.

Release Date:2021-02-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3

Europe, dans les coulisses d'une décennie de crise

Release Date:2019-12-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Trafic d'art, le grand marchandage

Release Date:2016-08-09

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

Arctique, la conquête glaciale

Release Date:2015-01-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Quand la France occupait l'Allemagne

Release Date:2014-07-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Art and Oligarchs

A popular trend among Russian oligarchs is to purchase works of art. Why? It's a way to get into the Kremlin's good graces, to gild their image…and to cover up the origin of their fortunes, often acquired in the shadow of post-Soviet power. Following a group of newly-minted collectors as they attempt to follow in the steps of well-known collectors of the early 20th-century, Tania Rakhmanov's powerful documentary Art and Oligarchs depicts a Russia where art, easy money, and an authoritarian state co-exist.

Release Date:2010-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

How Putin Came to Power

In August 1999, Vladimir V. Putin, head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), successor to the KGB, was appointed Prime Minister. On December 31st of that year, Boris Yeltsin announced that Putin would succeed him as President of the Russian Federation. How Putin Came to Power traces the stunningly rapid ascension of this political unknown to leadership of the Kremlin.

Release Date:2005-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Spetsnaz: Inside The Russian SAS

Spetsnaz is the Russian for Special Forces. In this series this highly secretive organisation will be laid bare. Since the mid-seventies the unit has seen active service in Afghanistan, Angola, Bosnia and the crime-ridden streets of Moscow. The films follows some of the different units on operations in Chechnya, Angola and Moscow, as well as their competitive selection process. This film delves inside the domestic counter-terrorism unit ALPHA GROUP, the KGB's foreign commando force, VYMPEL and the special police commandos, OMON. For the first time, our cameras record how new candidates to Spetsnaz units are put through their paces at Balashikha, the joint KGB/Interior Ministry training centre outside Moscow. We will get to know the men and women who aspire to make the transition from regular soldier / policeman to fully-fledged Spetsnaz.

Release Date:1999-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director