- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- March 2, 1931
- Place of Birth
- Privolnoe, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
- Died
- August 30, 2022
Mikhail Gorbachev
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.
Filmography
tvChernobyl: Inside the Meltdown
2026 · Self (archive footage)
movieJFK Assassination: A New Perspective
2025 · Self - Former General Secretary CCCP
movieAUM: The Cult at the End of the World
2025 · Self (archive footage)
tvCorridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
2024 · Self (archive footage)
tvTraitors
2024 · Self (archive footage)
movieGorbacheva
2024
tvTurning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
2024 · Self (archive footage)
tvComrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator
2023 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Man Who Challenged Putin
2023 · Self
movieIn the Grip of Gazprom
2023 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
tvThree Wars
2023 · Self (archive footage)
tvRussia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
2022 · Self (archive footage)
movieChernobyl: The Lost Tapes
2022 · Self (archive footage)
movieMoscow 1996, Vote or Lose!
2021 · Self (archive footage)
movieGorbachev. Heaven
2021 · Self
movieThe Art of Dissent
2021 · Self - Subject (archive footage)
movieStasi: A State Against Its People
2021 · Self (archive footage)
tvHullu vuosi 1991
2021 · Self
movieSakharov. Two Lives
2021 · Self (archive footage)
movieChernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR
2021 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Long Breakup
2020 · Self - Politician (archive footage)
tvFirst Ladies
2020 · Self (archive footage)
movieMy Favorite War
2020 · Self - Politician (archive footage)
movieThe Way I See It
2020 · Self (archive footage)
tvHistory 101
2020 · Self (archive footage)
movieFrenemies: Putin and Trump
2020 · Self - Politician (archive footage)
movieStalin and the Katyn Massacre
2020 · Self (archive footage)
movie30 Years of Democracy
2019 · Self (archive footage)
movieSolidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
2019 · Self - Politician (archive footage)
movieBully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
2019 · Self (archive footage)
movieTiananmen: The People Versus the Party
2019 · Self - Politician (archive footage)
movieThe Man Who Defied Beijing
2019 · Self - Politician (archive footage)
movieMeeting Gorbachev
2019 · Self
Lusia in Wonderland
movieLusia in Wonderland
2018 · Self
moviePutin's Witnesses
2018 · Self - Politician (archive footage)
movieOur Africa
2018 · Self
movieThe Arrow of Time
2017 · Self
movieÀ la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017 · Self - Soviet and Russian statesman (archive footage)
movieOscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired
2017 · Self
movieHow to Stage a Coup
2017
tvКод доступа
2017 · Self
movieFree to Rock
2017 · Self
movieEra Of Dance
2017 · Self (archive footage)
tvLegends of Cinema
2016 · Self (archive footage)
tvЗагадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
2016 · Self (archive footage)
movieZero Days
2016 · Self (archive footage)
movieThose Who Dare
2015 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Russian Woodpecker
2015 · Former President Russia (archive footage)
movieLaissez-faire
2015 · Self (archive footage)
movieQuando c'era Berlinguer
2014
tvOliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
2012 · Self
moviePalme
2012 · Self (archive footage)
movie41
2012 · Self (archive footage)
Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende
movieDer Sturz - Honeckers Ende
2012 · Self
movieThe Last Days of the USSR
2011 · Self
movieA Bitter Taste of Freedom
2011 · Self
movieHe Came to Give Us Freedom
2011
movieThe Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
2010
tvEpic Rap Battles of History
2010 · Characters
movieDisco and Atomic War
2009 · Self (archive footage)
movieHere to Stay
2009 · Self
movieHype: The Obama Effect
2008 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Soviet Story
2008 · Self (archive footage)
tvAlbum
2008 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieThe 11th Hour
2007 · Self
movieThe Battle of Chernobyl
2007 · Self
movieHammer & Tickle
2007 · Self (archive footage)
movieFreedom's Fury
2006
movieDoot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo!
2006 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Collapse of The Soviet Union
2006 · Self
tvZero Hour
2004 · Self (archival footage)
movieDisaster at Chernobyl
2004 · Self (archive footage)
tvDays That Shook the World
2003 · Self (archive footage)
movieMikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde
2003
tvThe School for Scandal
2002
movieGuts and Glory
2002 · Self (archive)
tvmaybrit illner
1999 · Self
Die Sekretäre
movieDie Sekretäre
1999 · Self (archive footage)
tvFaith of the Century: A History of Communism
1999 · Self (archive footage)
tvBeckmann
1999 · Self
movieWhen the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World
1999 · Self
movieThe Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files
1999 · Self
tvEin Herz für Kinder
1998 · Self
movieReagan
1998 · Self
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
tvThe Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998 · Self
tvHARDtalk
1997
movieSoviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
1996 · Self (archive footage)
movieSatans mördare
1995 · Self
movieCoup-2: Yet Another Uprising or the Shadow of Civil War
1995
Goldene Henne
tvGoldene Henne
1995 · Self
But... Seriously
movieBut... Seriously
1994 · Self (archive footage)
movieFaraway, So Close!
1993 · Mikhail Gorbachev
New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
movieNew Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
1992 · Self
movieDesert Storm: The War Begins
1991 · Self (archive footage)
movieLatest News About Doomsday
1991 · Self
tvThe Second Russian Revolution
1991 · Self
movieCeausescu: Behind the Myth
1991 · Self (archive footage)
tvDAS!
1991 · Self
movieStreng vertraulich oder Die innere Verfassung
1990 · Self (archive footage)
movieSuperstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
1990 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieThe Abyss
1989 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieDay of Revelation
1989
movieBukharin and the Terror
1988
movieChildren of the 20th Congress
1988 · (archive footage)
Der springende Punkt
movieDer springende Punkt
1987
movieFarewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984 · Self
Menschen
tvMenschen
1982 · Self
movieMikhail Gorbachev: A Man Who Changed the World
— · Self