Mikhail Gorbachev
Acting
Born 1931-03-02 · Privolnoe, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв; 2 March 1931 - 30 August 2022) was a Russian and former Soviet politician. The eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, he was the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was also the country's head of state from 1988 until 1991, serving as the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990, and president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. Ideologically, he initially adhered to Marxism–Leninism although by the early 1990s had moved toward social democracy.
Filmography
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective
Sep 8, 2025
AUM: The Cult at the End of the World
Mar 19, 2025
Gorbacheva
Mar 19, 2024
The Man Who Challenged Putin
Oct 31, 2023
In the Grip of Gazprom
Feb 7, 2023
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes
Feb 28, 2022
Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!
Nov 18, 2021
Gorbachev. Heaven
Oct 15, 2021
The Art of Dissent
Oct 5, 2021
Stasi: A State Against Its People
Oct 3, 2021
Sakharov. Two Lives
May 21, 2021
Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR
Apr 14, 2021
The Long Breakup
Oct 24, 2020
My Favorite War
Sep 25, 2020
The Way I See It
Sep 18, 2020
Frenemies: Putin and Trump
Mar 17, 2020
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Feb 18, 2020
30 Years of Democracy
Dec 22, 2019
Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
Oct 1, 2019
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Sep 29, 2019
Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party
Jun 2, 2019
The Man Who Defied Beijing
May 14, 2019
Meeting Gorbachev
May 3, 2019
Putin's Witnesses
Nov 8, 2018
Our Africa
Apr 17, 2018
The Arrow of Time
Oct 3, 2017
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Sep 1, 2017
Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired
Jun 18, 2017
How to Stage a Coup
Jun 1, 2017
Free to Rock
May 1, 2017