Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev

Known for
Acting
Born
March 2, 1931
Died
August 30, 2022 (aged 91)
Birthplace
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

Photos

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Filmography

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Mikhail Gorbachev: A Man Who Changed the World poster

Mikhail Gorbachev: A Man Who Changed the World

Movie · as Self

2026
Staatsgeheimnis RAF – Terroristen in der DDR poster

Staatsgeheimnis RAF – Terroristen in der DDR

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2026
Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown poster

Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

2025
AUM: The Cult at the End of the World poster

AUM: The Cult at the End of the World

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2025
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective poster

JFK Assassination: A New Perspective

Movie · as Self - Former General Secretary CCCP

2024
Gorbacheva poster

Gorbacheva

Movie

2024
Traitors poster

Traitors

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 3 eps

2024
Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? poster

Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 2 eps

2023
In the Grip of Gazprom poster

In the Grip of Gazprom

Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2023
The Man Who Challenged Putin poster

The Man Who Challenged Putin

Movie · as Self

2023
Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator poster

Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 3 eps

2023
Three Wars poster

Three Wars

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

2022
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes poster

Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2022
Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone poster

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 7 eps

2021
Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose! poster

Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2021
The Art of Dissent poster

The Art of Dissent

Movie · as Self - Subject (archive footage)

2021
Stasi: A State Against Its People poster

Stasi: A State Against Its People

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2021
Gorbachev. Heaven poster

Gorbachev. Heaven

Movie · as Self

2021
Sakharov. Two Lives poster

Sakharov. Two Lives

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2021
Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR poster

Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2021
Hullu vuosi 1991 poster

Hullu vuosi 1991

TV · as Self · 4 eps

2020
The Long Breakup poster

The Long Breakup

Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)

2020
Frenemies: Putin and Trump poster

Frenemies: Putin and Trump

Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)

2020
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre poster

Stalin and the Katyn Massacre

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2020
My Favorite War poster

My Favorite War

Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)

2020
The Way I See It poster

The Way I See It

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2020
History 101 poster

History 101

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 2 eps

2020
First Ladies poster

First Ladies

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

2019
30 Years of Democracy poster

30 Years of Democracy

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2019
Meeting Gorbachev poster

Meeting Gorbachev

Movie · as Self

2019
Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party poster

Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party

Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)

2019
The Man Who Defied Beijing poster

The Man Who Defied Beijing

Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)

2019
Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe poster

Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)

2019
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn poster

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2018
Lusia in Wonderland

Lusia in Wonderland

Movie · as Self

2018
Putin's Witnesses poster

Putin's Witnesses

Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)

2018
Our Africa poster

Our Africa

Movie · as Self

2017
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard poster

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

Movie · as Self - Soviet and Russian statesman (archive footage)

2017
Free to Rock poster

Free to Rock

Movie · as Self

2017
Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired poster

Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired

Movie · as Self

2017
The Arrow of Time poster

The Arrow of Time

Movie · as Self

2017
Era Of Dance poster

Era Of Dance

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2017
How to Stage a Coup poster

How to Stage a Coup

Movie

2017
Road to 9/11 poster

Road to 9/11

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

2016
Zero Days poster

Zero Days

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2016
Cuba, l'histoire secrète poster

Cuba, l'histoire secrète

Movie

2016
Legends of Cinema poster

Legends of Cinema

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

2016
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым poster

Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 2 eps

2015
Laissez-faire poster

Laissez-faire

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2015
Those Who Dare poster

Those Who Dare

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2015
The Russian Woodpecker poster

The Russian Woodpecker

Movie · as Former President Russia (archive footage)

2014
Quando c'era Berlinguer poster

Quando c'era Berlinguer

Movie · as Himself

2012
41 poster

41

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2012
Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende

Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende

Movie · as Self

2012
Palme poster

Palme

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2012
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States poster

Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2011
A Bitter Taste of Freedom poster

A Bitter Taste of Freedom

Movie · as Self

2011
He Came to Give Us Freedom poster

He Came to Give Us Freedom

Movie

2011
The Last Days of the USSR poster

The Last Days of the USSR

Movie · as Self

2010
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu poster

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

Movie

2009
Here to Stay poster

Here to Stay

Movie · as Self

2009
Disco and Atomic War poster

Disco and Atomic War

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2009
South of the Border poster

South of the Border

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2008
The Soviet Story poster

The Soviet Story

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2008
Hype: The Obama Effect poster

Hype: The Obama Effect

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2008
Album poster

Album

TV · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1 ep

2007
Hammer & Tickle poster

Hammer & Tickle

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2007
The Battle of Chernobyl poster

The Battle of Chernobyl

Movie · as Self

2007
The 11th Hour poster

The 11th Hour

Movie · as Self

2006
Freedom's Fury poster

Freedom's Fury

Movie

2006
The Collapse of The Soviet Union poster

The Collapse of The Soviet Union

Movie · as Self

2006
Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo! poster

Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo!

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2004
Disaster at Chernobyl poster

Disaster at Chernobyl

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2004
Looking for Fidel poster

Looking for Fidel

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2004
Zero Hour poster

Zero Hour

TV · as Self (archival footage) · 1 ep

2003
Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde poster

Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde

Movie

2003
Days That Shook the World poster

Days That Shook the World

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

2002
Guts and Glory poster

Guts and Glory

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2002
The School for Scandal poster

The School for Scandal

TV · 1 ep

1999
Die Sekretäre

Die Sekretäre

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

1999
When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World poster

When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World

Movie · as Self

1999
The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files poster

The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files

Movie · as Self

1999
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism poster

Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

1999
maybrit illner poster

maybrit illner

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1999
Beckmann poster

Beckmann

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1998
Reagan poster

Reagan

Movie · as Self

1998
Die Johannes B. Kerner Show

Die Johannes B. Kerner Show

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1998
Ein Herz für Kinder poster

Ein Herz für Kinder

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1997
HARDtalk poster

HARDtalk

TV · 1 ep

1996
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2 poster

Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

1995
Satans mördare poster

Satans mördare

Movie · as Self

1995
Coup-2: Yet Another Uprising or the Shadow of Civil War poster

Coup-2: Yet Another Uprising or the Shadow of Civil War

Movie

1995
Goldene Henne

Goldene Henne

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1994
But... Seriously

But... Seriously

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

1993
Faraway, So Close! poster

Faraway, So Close!

Movie · as Mikhail Gorbachev

1992
New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood

New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood

Movie · as Self

1991
Desert Storm: The War Begins poster

Desert Storm: The War Begins

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

1991
Ceausescu: Behind the Myth poster

Ceausescu: Behind the Myth

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

1991
Latest News About Doomsday poster

Latest News About Doomsday

Movie · as Self

1991
The Second Russian Revolution poster

The Second Russian Revolution

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1991
DAS! poster

DAS!

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1990
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol poster

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1990
Streng vertraulich oder Die innere Verfassung poster

Streng vertraulich oder Die innere Verfassung

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

1989
The Abyss poster

The Abyss

Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1989
Day of Revelation poster

Day of Revelation

Movie

1988
Children of the 20th Congress poster

Children of the 20th Congress

Movie · as (archive footage)

1988
Bukharin and the Terror poster

Bukharin and the Terror

Movie

1987
Der springende Punkt

Der springende Punkt

Movie

1984
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer poster

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

Movie · as Self

1982
Menschen

Menschen

TV · as Self · 1 ep