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