Mikhail Gorbachev
Born: 1931-03-02 in Privolnoe, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Died: 2022-08-30
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown as Self (archive footage)
2025
- JFK Assassination: A New Perspective as Self - Former General Secretary CCCP
- AUM: The Cult at the End of the World as Self (archive footage)
2024
- Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War as Self (archive footage)
- Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? as Self (archive footage)
- Traitors as Self (archive footage)
- Gorbacheva
2023
- Three Wars as Self (archive footage)
- Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator as Self (archive footage)
- In the Grip of Gazprom as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Man Who Challenged Putin as Self
2022
- Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone as Self (archive footage)
- Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes as Self (archive footage)
2021
- Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose! as Self (archive footage)
- Stasi: A State Against Its People as Self (archive footage)
- The Art of Dissent as Self - Subject (archive footage)
- Hullu vuosi 1991 as Self
- Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR as Self (archive footage)
- Sakharov. Two Lives as Self (archive footage)
- Gorbachev. Heaven as Self
2020
- History 101 as Self (archive footage)
- First Ladies as Self (archive footage)
- The Way I See It as Self (archive footage)
- Stalin and the Katyn Massacre as Self (archive footage)
- Frenemies: Putin and Trump as Self - Politician (archive footage)
- My Favorite War as Self - Politician (archive footage)
- The Long Breakup as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019
- 30 Years of Democracy as Self (archive footage)
- Meeting Gorbachev as Self
- Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn as Self (archive footage)
- Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe as Self - Politician (archive footage)
- The Man Who Defied Beijing as Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2018
- Putin's Witnesses as Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Our Africa as Self
- Lusia in Wonderland as Self
2017
- Road to 9/11 as Self (archive footage)
- Era Of Dance as Self (archive footage)
- How to Stage a Coup
- The Arrow of Time as Self
- À la recherche de... Pierre Richard as Self - Soviet and Russian statesman (archive footage)
- Free to Rock as Self
- Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired as Self
2016
- Legends of Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- Zero Days as Self (archive footage)
- Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым as Self (archive footage)
- Cuba, l'histoire secrète
2015
- The Russian Woodpecker as Former President Russia (archive footage)
- Laissez-faire as Self (archive footage)
- Those Who Dare as Self (archive footage)
2014
- Quando c'era Berlinguer as Himself
2012
- Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States as Self
- 41 as Self (archive footage)
- Palme as Self (archive footage)
- Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende as Self
2011
2009
- Disco and Atomic War as Self (archive footage)
- Here to Stay as Self
2008
- Album as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Hype: The Obama Effect as Self (archive footage)
- The Soviet Story as Self (archive footage)
2007
- The 11th Hour as Self
- The Battle of Chernobyl as Self
- Hammer & Tickle as Self (archive footage)
2006
- Freedom's Fury
- Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo! as Self (archive footage)
- The Collapse of The Soviet Union as Self
2004
- Zero Hour as Self (archival footage)
- Disaster at Chernobyl as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Days That Shook the World as Self (archive footage)
- Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde
2002
- The School for Scandal
- Guts and Glory as Self (archive footage)
1999
- maybrit illner as Self
- Beckmann as Self
- Faith of the Century: A History of Communism as Self (archive footage)
- The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files as Self
- When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World as Self
- Die Sekretäre as Self (archive footage)
1998
- The Johannes B. Kerner Show as Self
- Ein Herz für Kinder as Self
- Reagan as Self
1997
1996
- Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2 as Self (archive footage)
1995
1994
- But... Seriously as Self (archive footage)
1993
- Faraway, So Close! as Mikhail Gorbachev
1992
1991
- DAS! as Self
- The Second Russian Revolution as Self
- Ceausescu: Behind the Myth as Self (archive footage)
- Desert Storm: The War Begins as Self (archive footage)
- Latest News About Doomsday as Self
1990
- Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Streng vertraulich oder Die innere Verfassung as Self (archive footage)
1989
- The Abyss as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Day of Revelation
1988
- Children of the 20th Congress as (archive footage)
- Bukharin and the Terror
1987
1984
- Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer as Self
1982
- Menschen as Self