Mikhail Gorbachev
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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.
Known for
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The Abyss (1989)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hammer & Tickle (2007)
as Self (archive footage)
Children of the 20th Congress (1988)
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Disaster at Chernobyl (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
The Soviet Story (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
as Mikhail Gorbachev
Day of Revelation (1989)
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My Favorite War (2020)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
The 11th Hour (2007)
as Self
A Bitter Taste of Freedom (2011)
as Self
How to Stage a Coup (2017)
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Putin's Witnesses (2018)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Coup-2: Yet Another Uprising or the Shadow of Civil War (1995)
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Gorbacheva (2024)
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Those Who Dare (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
Quando c'era Berlinguer (2014)
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The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files (1999)
as Self
Our Africa (2018)
as Self
Sakharov. Two Lives (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
The Russian Woodpecker (2015)
as Former President Russia (archive footage)
Era Of Dance (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
Latest News About Doomsday (1991)
as Self
Lusia in Wonderland (2018)
as Self
Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo! (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Zero Days (2016)
as Self (archive footage)
The Way I See It (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Streng vertraulich oder Die innere Verfassung (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
Here to Stay (2009)
as Self
Laissez-faire (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
The Battle of Chernobyl (2007)
as Self
The Man Who Challenged Putin (2023)
as Self
Free to Rock (2017)
as Self
Disco and Atomic War (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
Frenemies: Putin and Trump (2020)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Palme (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
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Guts and Glory (2002)
as Self (archive)
30 Years of Democracy (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
But... Seriously (1994)
as Self (archive footage)
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Collapse of The Soviet Union (2006)
as Self
Desert Storm: The War Begins (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
Mikhail Gorbachev: A Man Who Changed the World (—)
as Self
Hype: The Obama Effect (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
Freedom's Fury (2006)
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Der springende Punkt (1987)
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Meeting Gorbachev (2019)
as Self
Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose! (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
The Man Who Defied Beijing (2019)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective (2025)
as Self - Former General Secretary CCCP
AUM: The Cult at the End of the World (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
In the Grip of Gazprom (2023)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World (1999)
as Self
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (1984)
as Self
41 (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe (2019)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard (2017)
as Self - Soviet and Russian statesman (archive footage)
The Art of Dissent (2021)
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
The Arrow of Time (2017)
as Self
Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party (2019)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Satans mördare (1995)
as Self
Reagan (1998)
as Self
The Long Breakup (2020)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Ceausescu: Behind the Myth (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood (1992)
as Self
Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende (2012)
as Self
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2 (1996)
as Self (archive footage)
Gorbachev. Heaven (2021)
as Self
Stasi: A State Against Its People (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Die Sekretäre (1999)
as Self (archive footage)
Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde (2003)
Actor
The Last Days of the USSR (2011)
as Self
Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired (2017)
as Self
He Came to Give Us Freedom (2011)
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Bukharin and the Terror (1988)
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