All of the Soviet Union’s Academy Award-Winning Films Are Legally and Freely Available Online · Global Voices
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Although the communist Soviet Union’s (1922-1992) official ideology derided America’s capitalist film industry, it submitted films to their Academy Award (also known as the ‘Oscars’) competition for Best Foreign Language Film between 1963 and 1991. Three films actually won the award.
In 2011, Mosfilm, the biggest production company in USSR, which continues to dominate the industry in independent Russia, opened ‘a treasure trove of Soviet films’ by uploading a collection of dozens of classics on YouTube for anyone to watch for free.
