Mikhail Gorbachev: movies and TV shows
Mikhail Gorbachev has 108 credits in the archive: 79 films and 29 TV series, from 1982 to 2026. Highest rated: maybrit illner (9.0/10).
Career timeline
1982 – 2026 · busiest year: 2017 (7 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown | Self (archive footage) | TV | 8.7 | 95 |
| 2025 | AUM: The Cult at the End of the World | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.0 | 94 |
| 2025 | JFK Assassination: A New Perspective | Self - Former General Secretary CCCP | Film | 10.0 | 94 |
| 2024 | Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.9 | 93 |
| 2024 | Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? | Self (archive footage) | TV | — | 93 |
| 2024 | Traitors | Self (archive footage) | TV | — | 93 |
| 2024 | Gorbacheva | Film | — | 93 | |
| 2023 | Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator | Self (archive footage) | TV | 8.2 | 92 |
| 2023 | Three Wars | Self (archive footage) | TV | — | 92 |
| 2023 | In the Grip of Gazprom | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 8.3 | 92 |
| 2023 | The Man Who Challenged Putin | Self | Film | — | 92 |
| 2022 | Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone | Self (archive footage) | TV | 8.6 | 91 |
| 2022 | Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.3 | 91 |
| 2021 | Sakharov. Two Lives | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 90 |
| 2021 | Hullu vuosi 1991 | Self | TV | — | 90 |
| 2021 | The Art of Dissent | Self - Subject (archive footage) | Film | — | 90 |
| 2021 | Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose! | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.7 | 90 |
| 2021 | Stasi: A State Against Its People | Self (archive footage) | Film | 9.0 | 90 |
| 2021 | Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.4 | 90 |
| 2021 | Gorbachev. Heaven | Self | Film | 7.8 | 90 |
| 2020 | History 101 | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.1 | 89 |
| 2020 | First Ladies | Self (archive footage) | TV | 5.3 | 89 |
| 2020 | My Favorite War | Self - Politician (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 89 |
| 2020 | Frenemies: Putin and Trump | Self - Politician (archive footage) | Film | 6.7 | 89 |
| 2020 | The Way I See It | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.8 | 89 |
| 2020 | Stalin and the Katyn Massacre | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.2 | 89 |
| 2020 | The Long Breakup | Self - Politician (archive footage) | Film | 6.0 | 89 |
| 2019 | Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.1 | 88 |
| 2019 | Meeting Gorbachev | Self | Film | 6.5 | 88 |
| 2019 | Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party | Self - Politician (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 88 |
| 2019 | 30 Years of Democracy | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 88 |
| 2019 | The Man Who Defied Beijing | Self - Politician (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 88 |
| 2019 | Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe | Self - Politician (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 88 |
| 2018 | Our Africa | Self | Film | — | 87 |
| 2018 | Putin's Witnesses | Self - Politician (archive footage) | Film | 6.3 | 87 |
| 2018 | Lusia in Wonderland | Self | Film | — | 87 |
| 2017 | Код доступа | Self | TV | — | 86 |
| 2017 | How to Stage a Coup | Film | 6.7 | 86 | |
| 2017 | Era Of Dance | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 86 |
| 2017 | The Arrow of Time | Self | Film | — | 86 |
| 2017 | Free to Rock | Self | Film | 6.4 | 86 |
| 2017 | À la recherche de... Pierre Richard | Self - Soviet and Russian statesman (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 86 |
| 2017 | Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired | Self | Film | 6.0 | 86 |
| 2016 | Legends of Cinema | Self (archive footage) | TV | — | 85 |
| 2016 | Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым | Self (archive footage) | TV | — | 85 |
| 2016 | Zero Days | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.4 | 85 |
| 2015 | Those Who Dare | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 84 |
| 2015 | The Russian Woodpecker | Former President Russia (archive footage) | Film | 6.2 | 84 |
| 2015 | Laissez-faire | Self (archive footage) | Film | 10.0 | 84 |
| 2014 | Quando c'era Berlinguer | Film | 7.2 | 83 | |
| 2012 | Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States | Self | TV | 7.6 | 81 |
| 2012 | 41 | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.2 | 81 |
| 2012 | Palme | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.6 | 81 |
| 2012 | Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende | Self | Film | — | 81 |
| 2011 | A Bitter Taste of Freedom | Self | Film | 5.0 | 80 |
| 2011 | The Last Days of the USSR | Self | Film | 8.0 | 80 |
| 2011 | He Came to Give Us Freedom | Film | — | 80 | |
| 2010 | Epic Rap Battles of History | TV | 7.3 | 79 | |
| 2010 | The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu | Film | 7.7 | 79 | |
| 2009 | Disco and Atomic War | Self (archive footage) | Film | 5.4 | 78 |
| 2009 | Here to Stay | Self | Film | 5.6 | 78 |
| 2008 | Album | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | TV | 3.8 | 77 |
| 2008 | The Soviet Story | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.4 | 77 |
| 2008 | Hype: The Obama Effect | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 77 |
| 2007 | The 11th Hour | Self | Film | 6.7 | 76 |
| 2007 | Hammer & Tickle | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.4 | 76 |
| 2007 | The Battle of Chernobyl | Self | Film | 7.5 | 76 |
| 2006 | Freedom's Fury | Film | 6.7 | 75 | |
| 2006 | The Collapse of The Soviet Union | Self | Film | — | 75 |
| 2006 | Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo! | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 75 |
| 2004 | Zero Hour | Self (archival footage) | TV | 7.4 | 73 |
| 2004 | Disaster at Chernobyl | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.5 | 73 |
| 2003 | Days That Shook the World | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.0 | 72 |
| 2003 | Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde | Film | — | 72 | |
| 2002 | The School for Scandal | TV | 5.8 | 71 | |
| 2002 | Guts and Glory | Self (archive) | Film | — | 71 |
| 1999 | maybrit illner | Self | TV | 9.0 | 68 |
| 1999 | Beckmann | Self | TV | 4.3 | 68 |
| 1999 | Faith of the Century: A History of Communism | Self (archive footage) | TV | 8.5 | 68 |
| 1999 | The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files | Self | Film | 5.3 | 68 |
| 1999 | When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World | Self | Film | 8.0 | 68 |
| 1999 | Die Sekretäre | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 68 |
| 1998 | The Johannes B. Kerner Show | Self | TV | 7.7 | 67 |
| 1998 | Ein Herz für Kinder | Self | TV | 10.0 | 67 |
| 1998 | Reagan | Self | Film | 8.0 | 67 |
| 1997 | HARDtalk | TV | 8.7 | 66 | |
| 1996 | Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2 | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 65 |
| 1995 | Goldene Henne | Self | TV | — | 64 |
| 1995 | Coup-2: Yet Another Uprising or the Shadow of Civil War | Film | — | 64 | |
| 1995 | Satans mördare | Self | Film | — | 64 |
| 1994 | But... Seriously | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.5 | 63 |
| 1993 | Faraway, So Close! | Mikhail Gorbachev | Film | 6.9 | 62 |
| 1992 | New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood | Self | Film | 8.0 | 61 |
| 1991 | DAS! | Self | TV | 4.7 | 60 |
| 1991 | The Second Russian Revolution | Self | TV | — | 60 |
| 1991 | Latest News About Doomsday | Self | Film | 10.0 | 60 |
| 1991 | Desert Storm: The War Begins | Self (archive footage) | Film | 9.0 | 60 |
| 1991 | Ceausescu: Behind the Myth | Self (archive footage) | Film | 3.0 | 60 |
| 1990 | Streng vertraulich oder Die innere Verfassung | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 59 |
| 1990 | Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 7.3 | 59 |
| 1989 | The Abyss | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 7.4 | 58 |
| 1989 | Day of Revelation | Film | — | 58 | |
| 1988 | Children of the 20th Congress | (archive footage) | Film | — | 57 |
| 1988 | Bukharin and the Terror | Film | — | 57 | |
| 1987 | Der springende Punkt | Film | — | 56 | |
| 1984 | Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer | Self | Film | 6.5 | 53 |
| 1982 | Menschen | Self | TV | 6.0 | 51 |
| Mikhail Gorbachev: A Man Who Changed the World | Self | Film | 7.0 | — |