Russian-language documentary films

1929 Soviet silent documentary film

2021 documentary film by the Anti-Corruption Foundation

Mr Nobody Against Putin is a 2025 documentary film directed by David Borenstein and Pavel Talankin. It follows Talankin in his job at a school in Karabash, a poor mining town near the Ural Mountains. While recording his students, Talankin also documents the Putin administration's moves to control public perception during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war.

1942 war propaganda film by Ilya Kopalin and Leonid Varlamov

2020 film by David France

1934 silent film directed by Dziga Vertov

1965 film by Mikhail Romm

1930 film by Dziga Vertov

1930 film by Mikhail Kalatozov

1926 silent film by Dziga Vertov

1987 film by Juris Podnieks

1929 film by Victor A. Turin

1926 film by Vsevolod Pudovkin

2017 documentary film directed by Alexey Navalny

2013 film directed by Anatoly Ivanov

thumb|Kino-Pravda No.23 (1925) Kino-Pravda () was a series of 23 newsreels by Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman launched in June 1922. Vertov referred to the twenty-three issues of Kino-Pravda as the first work by him where his future cinematic methods can be observed.

1954 ballet film directed by Herbert Rappaport

1943 Soviet documentary war film

1937 documentary film by Dziga Vertov

1943 film by Leonid Varlamov

1970 film by Elem Klimov

1989 film by Nikita Mikhalkov

1988 film by Alexander Sokurov

2022 Russian film

1945 Soviet propaganda documentary film directed by Yuli Raizman

2014 film by Gabe Polsky

1981 Soviet film by Yuri Ozerov

1997 film by Valeriy Kharchenko

1989 film by Ivars Seleckis

Resan (Swedish for The Journey) is a 1987 documentary film by Peter Watkins, made between the years 1983 and 1985 on several continents, and structured around the theme of nuclear weapons, military spending and poverty. Ordinary people are asked about their awareness of these issues.

1929 film by Mikhail Kaufman

1968 film by Pavel Klushantsev

1950 film by Sergei Gerasimov

1954 film by Eldar Ryazanov

2006 Russian pseudo-documentary film by Anastasia Popova

1953 film by Yuri Ozerov, Sergei Gurov

2012 film by Harmony Korine

2025 documentary film directed by Tamara Stepanyan