• "Gulag, a Soviet story"
By Patrick Rotman. Duration: 3 episodes of 52 minutes. arte.fr, from February 19 and DVD.
No fictional scenario would have dared imagine the atrocity of the Soviet concentration camp system methodically described here.
Twenty million innocent people persecuted and largely killed, from 1918 until Stalin's death in 1953, in camps set up by Lenin long before they were named Gulag under Stalin.
Survivors testify, poignant antiheroes of a horrific fresco.
• "Room 2806: The DSK affair"
Room 2806: The DSK case
, by Jalil Lespert.
Netflix
By Jalil Lespert. Duration: 4 episodes of 45-60 min. Netflix.
Unpublished testimonies interspersed with archives.
The codes of the old-fashioned documentary are there.
Except that Jalil Lespert had the means and the time.
To film, in particular, New York using drones.
To mount his investigation like a thriller, with a reconstruction.
Especially to meticulously recount DSK's descent into hell.
And offer a ruthless portrait of the world before #MeToo.
• "History snapshots"
Snapshots of history: Léon Collin
, a young military doctor with convicts.
© Léon Collin / Bonne Compagnie
By ten directors. Duration: 20 episodes of 26 minutes.
filmsdocumentaires.com
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