The brilliant scientist Mikhail Rubin ends up in the camp because of a personal conflict with the People's Commissar Beria. But suddenly Rubin is released: his best friend and colleague Kirill Muromtsev recommended Mikhail to a secret project to create a Soviet atomic bomb, and the physicist's candidacy was approved by academician Kurchatov. Mikhail returns to Moscow and finds out that while he was in the camp, his fiancee Anna Galeeva managed to become Kirill's wife. To fulfill the task of the state, young scientists will have to work together, despite the personal drama.
Miniseries based on the 1977 autobiography by Philip Caputo about his service in the United States Marine Corps in the early years of American involvement in the Vietnam War.
Nikolay Morozov has been both a revolutionary and a terrorist in his long life. Sentenced to a lifetime of hard labour, he spent 30 years in a tsarist prison. His hair had long turned grey by the time the Second World War broke out, but when he realised his country needed him he volunteered for the army. Nikolay was 87 at the time.
During the Sino-Japanese War, Ye Lingqing, a guerrilla captain of the Eighth Route Army, goes undercover to rescue a captured ally and locate a hidden cache of military supplies. As Japanese forces close in, Ye and his comrades race against time, risking their lives in a covert struggle that leads to a decisive victory on the eve of the Hundred Regiments Offensive.
This ten-part docuseries tells the comprehensive story of the First World War, featuring excerpts written by Winston Churchill, Karen Blixen, Georges Clémenceau, David Lloyd George, Siegfried Sassoon and Rudolf Hess.