Mikhail Gorbachev
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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.
Known for
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The Abyss (1989)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hammer & Tickle (2007)
as Self (archive footage)
The Soviet Story (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
Children of the 20th Congress (1988)
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Cuba, l'histoire secrète (2016)
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Quando c'era Berlinguer (2014)
as Himself
Staatsgeheimnis RAF – Terroristen in der DDR (2026)
as Self (archive footage)
The Way I See It (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Sakharov. Two Lives (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files (1999)
as Self
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
as Mikhail Gorbachev
The 11th Hour (2007)
as Self
The Russian Woodpecker (2015)
as Former President Russia (archive footage)
How to Stage a Coup (2017)
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Latest News About Doomsday (1991)
as Self
Guts and Glory (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
Looking for Fidel (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
Disaster at Chernobyl (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
Our Africa (2018)
as Self
Coup-2: Yet Another Uprising or the Shadow of Civil War (1995)
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Zero Days (2016)
as Self (archive footage)
A Bitter Taste of Freedom (2011)
as Self
The Man Who Challenged Putin (2023)
as Self
Lusia in Wonderland (2018)
as Self
Mikhail Gorbachev: A Man Who Changed the World (—)
as Self
Streng vertraulich oder Die innere Verfassung (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
Day of Revelation (1989)
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Disco and Atomic War (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
Free to Rock (2017)
as Self
In the Grip of Gazprom (2023)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Der springende Punkt (1987)
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Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Gorbacheva (2024)
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My Favorite War (2020)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Collapse of The Soviet Union (2006)
as Self
Era Of Dance (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
Those Who Dare (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Here to Stay (2009)
as Self
Meeting Gorbachev (2019)
as Self
30 Years of Democracy (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Putin's Witnesses (2018)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
South of the Border (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
The Battle of Chernobyl (2007)
as Self
Frenemies: Putin and Trump (2020)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (1984)
as Self
Palme (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Hype: The Obama Effect (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
AUM: The Cult at the End of the World (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
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But... Seriously (1994)
as Self (archive footage)
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Arrow of Time (2017)
as Self
Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo! (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Laissez-faire (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired (2017)
as Self
Freedom's Fury (2006)
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Stasi: A State Against Its People (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
41 (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose! (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
The Art of Dissent (2021)
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe (2019)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective (2025)
as Self - Former General Secretary CCCP
Gorbachev. Heaven (2021)
as Self
The Last Days of the USSR (2011)
as Self
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard (2017)
as Self - Soviet and Russian statesman (archive footage)
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2 (1996)
as Self (archive footage)
Ceausescu: Behind the Myth (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World (1999)
as Self
Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party (2019)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Reagan (1998)
as Self
The Man Who Defied Beijing (2019)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Die Sekretäre (1999)
as Self (archive footage)
New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood (1992)
as Self
Desert Storm: The War Begins (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
The Long Breakup (2020)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde (2003)
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Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende (2012)
as Self
Satans mördare (1995)
as Self
He Came to Give Us Freedom (2011)
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Bukharin and the Terror (1988)
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