Stalin: Man of Steel

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.

• Peter AdlerDirector
• Alexander BerkelDirector
• Stefan BrauburgerDirector
• Oliver HalmburgerDirector
• Ralf PiechowiakDirector

• Edward HerrmannNarrator (voice)
• Joseph StalinSelf (archive footage)
• Vladimir LeninSelf (archive footage)
• Lev KopelevSelf
• Dodo ChichinadzeSelf
• Lev RazgonSelf
• Leonid ZamyatinSelf
• Edvard RadzinskySelf
• Alexander BurdonskySelf
• Dmitry LikhachevSelf
• Olga TrifonovaSelf
• Genrikh YagodaSelf (archive footage)