Mikhail Gorbachev

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

DAS!

Beckmann

maybrit illner

The School for Scandal

Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States

The Abyss

History 101

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

All Movies (79)

• JFK Assassination: A New Perspective2025 · as Self - Former General Secretary CCCP
• AUM: The Cult at the End of the World2025 · as Self (archive footage)
• Gorbacheva2024
• The Man Who Challenged Putin2023 · as Self
• In the Grip of Gazprom2023 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• Gorbachev. Heaven2021 · as Self
• The Art of Dissent2021 · as Self - Subject (archive footage)
• Stasi: A State Against Its People2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• Sakharov. Two Lives2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Long Breakup2020 · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
• My Favorite War2020 · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
• The Way I See It2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• Frenemies: Putin and Trump2020 · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
• Stalin and the Katyn Massacre2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• 30 Years of Democracy2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe2019 · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
• Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party2019 · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
• The Man Who Defied Beijing2019 · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
• Meeting Gorbachev2019 · as Self
• Lusia in Wonderland2018 · as Self
• Putin's Witnesses2018 · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
• Our Africa2018 · as Self
• The Arrow of Time2017 · as Self
• À la recherche de... Pierre Richard2017 · as Self - Soviet and Russian statesman (archive footage)
• Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired2017 · as Self
• How to Stage a Coup2017
• Free to Rock2017 · as Self
• Era Of Dance2017 · as Self (archive footage)
• Zero Days2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• Those Who Dare2015 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Russian Woodpecker2015 · as Former President Russia (archive footage)
• Laissez-faire2015 · as Self (archive footage)
• Quando c'era Berlinguer2014
• Palme2012 · as Self (archive footage)
• 412012 · as Self (archive footage)
• Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende2012 · as Self
• The Last Days of the USSR2011 · as Self
• A Bitter Taste of Freedom2011 · as Self
• He Came to Give Us Freedom2011
• The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu2010
• Disco and Atomic War2009 · as Self (archive footage)
• Here to Stay2009 · as Self
• Hype: The Obama Effect2008 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Soviet Story2008 · as Self (archive footage)
• The 11th Hour2007 · as Self
• The Battle of Chernobyl2007 · as Self
• Hammer & Tickle2007 · as Self (archive footage)
• Freedom's Fury2006
• Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo!2006 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Collapse of The Soviet Union2006 · as Self
• Disaster at Chernobyl2004 · as Self (archive footage)
• Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde2003
• Guts and Glory2002 · as Self (archive)
• Die Sekretäre1999 · as Self (archive footage)
• When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World1999 · as Self
• The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files1999 · as Self
• Reagan1998 · as Self
• Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 21996 · as Self (archive footage)
• Satans mördare1995 · as Self
• Coup-2: Yet Another Uprising or the Shadow of Civil War1995
• But... Seriously1994 · as Self (archive footage)
• Faraway, So Close!1993 · as Mikhail Gorbachev
• New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood1992 · as Self
• Desert Storm: The War Begins1991 · as Self (archive footage)
• Latest News About Doomsday1991 · as Self
• Ceausescu: Behind the Myth1991 · as Self (archive footage)
• Streng vertraulich oder Die innere Verfassung1990 · as Self (archive footage)
• Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol1990 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Abyss1989 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Day of Revelation1989
• Bukharin and the Terror1988
• Children of the 20th Congress1988 · as (archive footage)
• Der springende Punkt1987
• Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer1984 · as Self
• Mikhail Gorbachev: A Man Who Changed the World— · as Self

All TV Shows (28)

• Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown2026 · as Self (archive footage)
• Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• Traitors2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• Three Wars2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hullu vuosi 19912021 · as Self
• First Ladies2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• History 1012020 · as Self (archive footage)
• Код доступа2017 · as Self
• Legends of Cinema2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States2012 · as Self
• Album2008 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Zero Hour2004 · as Self (archival footage)
• Days That Shook the World2003 · as Self (archive footage)
• The School for Scandal2002
• maybrit illner1999 · as Self
• Faith of the Century: A History of Communism1999 · as Self (archive footage)
• Beckmann1999 · as Self
• Ein Herz für Kinder1998 · as Self
• The Johannes B. Kerner Show1998 · as Self
• HARDtalk1997
• Goldene Henne1995 · as Self
• The Second Russian Revolution1991 · as Self
• DAS!1991 · as Self
• Menschen1982 · as Self