Mikhail Gorbachev
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Mar 2, 1931 (95 years old)
Place of Birth
Privolnoe, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Biography
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
| 2025 | AUM: The Cult at the End of the WorldSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2025 | JFK Assassination: A New PerspectiveSelf - Former General Secretary CCCP | |
| 2024 | Gorbacheva | |
| 2024 | Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold WarSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2024 | TraitorsSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2024 | Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?Self (archive footage) | |
| 2023 | In the Grip of GazpromSelf (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 2023 | The Man Who Challenged PutinSelf | |
| 2023 | Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a DictatorSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2023 | Three WarsSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2022 | Chernobyl: The Lost TapesSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2022 | Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZoneSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2021 | Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!Self (archive footage) | |
| 2021 | The Art of DissentSelf - Subject (archive footage) | |
| 2021 | Stasi: A State Against Its PeopleSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2021 | Gorbachev. HeavenSelf | |
| 2021 | Sakharov. Two LivesSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2021 | Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSRSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2021 | Hullu vuosi 1991Self | |
| 2020 | The Long BreakupSelf - Politician (archive footage) | |
| 2020 | Frenemies: Putin and TrumpSelf - Politician (archive footage) | |
| 2020 | Stalin and the Katyn MassacreSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2020 | My Favorite WarSelf - Politician (archive footage) | |
| 2020 | The Way I See ItSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2020 | History 101Self (archive footage) | |
| 2020 | First LadiesSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2019 | 30 Years of DemocracySelf (archive footage) | |
| 2019 | Meeting GorbachevSelf | |
| 2019 | Tiananmen: The People Versus the PartySelf - Politician (archive footage) | |
| 2019 | The Man Who Defied BeijingSelf - Politician (archive footage) | |
| 2019 | Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed EuropeSelf - Politician (archive footage) | |
| 2019 | Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy CohnSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2018 | Lusia in WonderlandSelf | |
| 2018 | Putin's WitnessesSelf - Politician (archive footage) | |
| 2018 | Our AfricaSelf | |
| 2017 | À la recherche de... Pierre RichardSelf - Soviet and Russian statesman (archive footage) | |
| 2017 | Free to RockSelf | |
| 2017 | Oscar Arias: Without a Shot FiredSelf | |
| 2017 | The Arrow of TimeSelf | |
| 2017 | Era Of DanceSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2017 | How to Stage a Coup | |
| 2017 | Код доступаSelf | |
| 2016 | Zero DaysSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2016 | Legends of CinemaSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2016 | Загадки века с Сергеем МедведевымSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2015 | Laissez-faireSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2015 | Those Who DareSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2015 | The Russian WoodpeckerFormer President Russia (archive footage) | |
| 2014 | Quando c'era Berlinguer | |
| 2012 | 41Self (archive footage) | |
| 2012 | Der Sturz - Honeckers EndeSelf | |
| 2012 | PalmeSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2012 | Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United StatesSelf | |
| 2011 | A Bitter Taste of FreedomSelf | |
| 2011 | He Came to Give Us Freedom | |
| 2011 | The Last Days of the USSRSelf | |
| 2010 | The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu | |
| 2009 | Here to StaySelf | |
| 2009 | Disco and Atomic WarSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2008 | The Soviet StorySelf (archive footage) | |
| 2008 | Hype: The Obama EffectSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2008 | AlbumSelf (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 2007 | Hammer & TickleSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2007 | The Battle of ChernobylSelf | |
| 2007 | The 11th HourSelf | |
| 2006 | Freedom's Fury | |
| 2006 | The Collapse of The Soviet UnionSelf | |
| 2006 | Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo!Self (archive footage) | |
| 2004 | Disaster at ChernobylSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2004 | Zero HourSelf (archival footage) | |
| 2003 | Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde | |
| 2003 | Days That Shook the WorldSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2002 | The School for Scandal | |
| 1999 | Die SekretäreSelf (archive footage) | |
| 1999 | When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the WorldSelf | |
| 1999 | The Secret KGB JFK Assassination FilesSelf | |
| 1999 | Faith of the Century: A History of CommunismSelf (archive footage) | |
| 1999 | maybrit illnerSelf | |
| 1999 | BeckmannSelf | |
| 1998 | ReaganSelf | |
| 1998 | The Johannes B. Kerner ShowSelf | |
| 1998 | Ein Herz für KinderSelf | |
| 1997 | HARDtalk | |
| 1996 | Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2Self (archive footage) | |
| 1995 | Satans mördareSelf | |
| 1995 | Coup-2: Yet Another Uprising or the Shadow of Civil War | |
| 1995 | Goldene HenneSelf | |
| 1994 | But... SeriouslySelf (archive footage) | |
| 1993 | Faraway, So Close!Mikhail Gorbachev | |
| 1992 | New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, BrotherhoodSelf | |
| 1991 | Desert Storm: The War BeginsSelf (archive footage) | |
| 1991 | Ceausescu: Behind the MythSelf (archive footage) | |
| 1991 | Latest News About DoomsdaySelf | |
| 1991 | The Second Russian RevolutionSelf | |
| 1991 | DAS!Self | |
| 1990 | Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy WarholSelf (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 1990 | Streng vertraulich oder Die innere VerfassungSelf (archive footage) | |
| 1989 | The AbyssSelf (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 1989 | Day of Revelation | |
| 1988 | Children of the 20th Congress(archive footage) | |
| 1988 | Bukharin and the Terror | |
| 1987 | Der springende Punkt | |
| 1984 | Farewell to Enrico BerlinguerSelf | |
| 1982 | MenschenSelf | |
| - | Mikhail Gorbachev: A Man Who Changed the WorldSelf |