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Mikhail Gorbachev

Acting March 2, 1931

Privolnoe, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]

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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.

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2026
Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown
TV show Self (archive footage)
2025
SLEEPERS
TV show Mikhail Gorbachev
2025
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective
Movie Self - Former General Secretary CCCP
2025
AUM: The Cult at the End of the World
Movie Self (archive footage)
2024
Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
TV show Self (archive footage)
2024
Traitors
TV show Self (archive footage)
2024
Gorbacheva
Movie
2024
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
TV show Self (archive footage)
2023
Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator
TV show Self (archive footage)
2023
The Man Who Challenged Putin
Movie Self
2023
In the Grip of Gazprom
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Three Wars
TV show Self (archive footage)
2022
Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
TV show Self (archive footage)
2022
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes
Movie Self (archive footage)
2021
Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!
Movie Self (archive footage)
2021
Gorbachev. Heaven
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2021
The Art of Dissent
Movie Self - Subject (archive footage)
2021
Stasi: A State Against Its People
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2021
Hullu vuosi 1991
TV show Self
2021
Sakharov. Two Lives
Movie Self (archive footage)
2021
Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR
Movie Self (archive footage)
2020
The Long Breakup
Movie Self - Politician (archive footage)
2020
First Ladies
TV show Self (archive footage)
2020
My Favorite War
Movie Self - Politician (archive footage)
2020
The Way I See It
Movie Self (archive footage)
2020
History 101
TV show Self (archive footage)
2020
Frenemies: Putin and Trump
Movie Self - Politician (archive footage)
2020
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Movie Self (archive footage)
2019
30 Years of Democracy
Movie Self (archive footage)
2019
Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
Movie Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Movie Self (archive footage)
2019
Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party
Movie Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019
The Man Who Defied Beijing
Movie Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019
Meeting Gorbachev
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2018
Lusia in Wonderland
Movie Self
2018
Putin's Witnesses
Movie Self - Politician (archive footage)
2018
Our Africa
Movie Self
2017
The Arrow of Time
Movie Self
2017
Road to 9/11
TV show Self (archive footage)
2017
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Movie Self - Soviet and Russian statesman (archive footage)