Ukrainian Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio

A documentary assembled from footage shot in the weeks following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, documenting the immediate response, evacuation efforts, and the work of firefighters, doctors, and workers involved in containing the damaged reactor.

The film is about the service of border guards at one of the outposts of the Western Border District: soldiers on guard duty, during their leisure time, see off demobilized soldiers.

Documentary film about the outstanding Ukrainian humorist Ostap Vyshnia.

About the life and work of the documentary film director, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR V.M. Shevchenko. The film shows the congress-festival of the International Association of Scientific Cinema in Pardubice (Czechoslovakia). Archival film and photo documents are used.

In November 1988, director Anatoly Syrykh met with Sergei Parajanov in Tbilisi to make a documentary about him. However, Parajanov was clearly not in the mood to talk about his art. As a compromise, Syrykh offers to talk about the artist and time. The tired, offended director of "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" forbids Syrykh to film him. He agrees only to speak, recalling the most unpleasant moments of his life.

Documentary about the famous Ukrainian philosopher and poet Hryhoriy Skovoroda, which was banned by Soviet censorship. The film only reached the screens 15 years later, during Perestroika era.

In the Volyn region, in a monastery of the XVI century, an old people’s home is located. However, mental patients and former criminals also live there.

A touching cinematic portrait of a woman who survived the 1933 Holodomor and whose life comprised more dramatic moments than a screenwriter could possibly describe. This is one of the first films raising the issue of the Great Famine.

A film about the mass extermination of people by the Nazis in the Janowska concentration camp in Lviv. Former prisoners of the camp are interviewed. The camp orchestra plays. Photos from the Great Patriotic War and documentary footage about neo-fascism are used.

A documentary about Hryhoriy Havrylenko. After watching the film, Yuriy Illienko told the film's cameraman Volodymyr Pika: "Man, this is brilliant!".

The film tells the story of people of a unique profession - rafters, or bokorash, as they were called in Zakarpattia, who floated timber down the Cheremosh River from the peaks to the valley. This profession came to an end in the early 1970s, and half a century later, the film is an invaluable testament to the history of the Carpathian region.

The film is about the work of an amateur artist from the village Bolotnya, Ivankiv district, Kyiv region, Fedir Prymachenko, the son of the artist Maria Prymachenko. The artist's works from the series "Man on Earth" are demonstrated.

Documentary about drunkenness and alcoholism in the Soviet Union.

The Soviet authorities tried in every possible way to hide the truth about the shootings in Babyn Yar, because the victims there were mostly Jews. In 1966, on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the shootings, for the first time a small group of Kyivans, together with the famous writer Viktor Nekrasov, gathered near Babyn Yar to honor the memory of the victims. Employees of the Kyiv Documentary Film Studio found out about it: cameraman Eduard Timlin and director Rafail Nakhmanovych. Under the guise of shooting a film about the Soviet police, they decided to record this event on tape.

The film is dedicated to the memory of the victims of Babyn Yar. A memorial service and a requiem rally are shown. The writer I. F. Drach makes a speech. Photo and film documents from the Second World War are used.

Documentary about the director of the Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi Historical and Cultural Reserve (Kyiv region), M. Sikorsky. Dr. Drektor speaks at a meeting and gives an interview. Employees of the reserve tell about M. Sikorsky. The Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Museum of Folk Architecture and Life is shown.

A documentary based on newsreels about the development of the national economy, science, and culture of Ukraine awarded by a special jury prize at 1951 Cannes Film Festival.

Women of Ukraine of the 20th century — residents of villages, collective farms, and cities of the Soviet republic — talk about themselves. The context of the great story is revealed through tragic, not at all bookish, first-person narratives and documentary footage of menial labor in the fields and construction sites.

The film is about Ivan Honchar, an ardent collector of Ukrainian antiquities, who turned his Kyiv apartment into a unique museum.