Mikhail Gorbachev
Born
March 2, 1931
Died
August 30, 2022 (91 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Privolnoe, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
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.
Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
Self (archive footage) · (2 episodes)
2024
Traitors
Self (archive footage) · (3 episodes)
2024
Gorbacheva
2024
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Self (archive footage) · (2 episodes)
2024
Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator
Self (archive footage) · (3 episodes)
2023
In the Grip of Gazprom
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Three Wars
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
2023
Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
Self (archive footage) · (7 episodes)
2022
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes
Self (archive footage)
2022
Mr. Landsbergis
Self (archive footage)
2021
Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!
Self (archive footage)
2021
Gorbachev. Heaven
Self
2021
The Art of Dissent
Self - Subject (archive footage)
2021
Stasi, un État contre son peuple
Self (archive footage)
2021
Sakharov. Two Lives
Self (archive footage)
2021
Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR
Self (archive footage)
2021
The ENTIRE History of the Cold War Explained
Self (archive footage)
2021
The Long Breakup
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2020
First Ladies
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
2020
My Favorite War
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2020
The Way I See It
Self (archive footage)
2020
History 101
Self (archive footage) · (2 episodes)
2020
Frenemies: Putin and Trump
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2020
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Self (archive footage)
2020
30 Years of Democracy
Self (archive footage)
2019
Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Self (archive footage)
2019
Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019
The Man Who Defied Beijing
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019
Meeting Gorbachev
Self
2019
Lusia in Wonderland
Self
2018
Putin's Witnesses
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2018
Our Africa
Self
2018
The Arrow of Time
Self
2017
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Self - Soviet and Russian statesman (archive footage)
2017
Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired
Self
2017
Free to Rock
Self
2017
Era Of Dance
Self (archive footage)
2017
Zero Days
Self (archive footage)
2016
Those Who Dare
Self (archive footage)
2015
The Russian Woodpecker
Former President Russia (archive footage)
2015
Laissez-faire
Self (archive footage)
2015
Quando c'era Berlinguer
2014
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
Self · (1 episode)
2012
Palme
2012
41
Self (archive footage)
2012
Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende
Self
2012
The Last Days of the USSR
Self
2011
A Bitter Taste of Freedom
2011
He Came to Give Us Freedom
2011
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
2010
Disco and Atomic War
Self (archive footage)
2009
Here to Stay
Self
2009
The Soviet Story
Self (archive footage)
2008
The Battle of Chernobyl
Self
2007
Hammer & Tickle
Self (archive footage)
2007
Freedom's Fury
2006
Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo!
Self (archive footage)
2006
The Collapse of The Soviet Union
Self
2006
Zero Hour
Self (archival footage) · (1 episode)
2004
Disaster at Chernobyl
Self (archive footage)
2004
Days That Shook the World
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
2003
Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde
2003
The School for Scandal
(1 episode)
2002
maybrit illner
Self · (1 episode)
1999
Die Sekretäre
Self (archive footage)
1999
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
1999
Beckmann
Self · (1 episode)
1999
When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World
Self
1999
The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files
Self
1999
Ein Herz für Kinder
Self · (1 episode)
1998
Reagan
Self
1998
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
Self · (1 episode)
1998
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
Self (archive footage)
1996
Satans mördare
Self
1995
Goldene Henne
Self · (1 episode)
1995
But... Seriously
Self (archive footage)
1994
Faraway, So Close!
Mikhail Gorbachev
1993
New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
Self
1992
Desert Storm: The War Begins
Self (archive footage)
1991
The Second Russian Revolution
Self · (1 episode)
1991
Ceausescu: Behind the Myth
Self (archive footage)
1991
DAS!
Self · (1 episode)
1991
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1990
The Abyss
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1989
Day of Revelation
1989
Children of the 20th Congress
(archive footage)
1988
Der springende Punkt
1987
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Self
1984
Menschen
Self · (1 episode)
1982