(DOC NYC’s 12th edition will take place in theaters and online November 10-28, 2021. Hammer to Nail has the fest covered so stay tuned for tons of reviews! Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 […]

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(Gorbachev. Heaven finds acclaimed director Vitaly Mansky at home with a man who helped to shape the 20th-century: Mikhail Gorbachev. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) […]

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Director Gabe Polsky is back at it, following up on his 2014 Red Army, about the successful Soviet hockey team, with Red Penguins (which I reviewed for Hammer to Nail), about what happened to the organization once the Cold War […]

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All of that is to say that Herzog may praise Gorbachev extensively – and there is a lot to praise – but the man’s attempts to restructure the stagnant economy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, though valiant, led to some fairly dire consequences.

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Director Mark Jonathan Harris (Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport) and his Ukrainian co-director Oles Sanin (The Guide) plunge head-on into the maelstrom of chaos that descended on the country leading up to and following the overthrow of corrupt President Viktor Yanukovych in early 2014.

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