Cast & creator
Joseph Stalin
Best known for American Experience, Mentiras verdaderas, The UnXplained
Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) was born in Gori, Tiflis province, Russian Empire - a Soviet political, statesman, military and party figure, a Russian revolutionary. Actual leader of the USSR. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1922-1953). Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943), Generalissimo of the Soviet Union (1945). People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR (since July 19, 1941), Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and Chairman of the USSR State Defense Committee. He also held the following positions: From April 3, 1922 to February 10, 1934 - Secretary General, then - Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (from 1952 - CPSU), from December 19, 1930, after Vyacheslav Molotov took the post of Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR instead of Alexey Rykov. In 1912, at the suggestion of V.I. Lenin was included in the Central Committee of the RSDLP. At the same time, Joseph Dzhugashvili finally chose the pseudonym "Stalin" for himself. During the October Revolution, the Second All-Russian Congress was elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars. In 1922, at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), he was elected a member of the Orgburo and the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), as well as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) (when Lenin was Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR). In 1930, after the weakening and death of Lenin, Stalin finally emerged victorious from the internal party struggle, becoming the leader of the state. Stalin was the actual founder of the totalitarian dictatorship in the USSR. In 1928-1929 he was the initiator of the transition from the course of the New Economic Policy (NEP) to the course of industrialization, collectivization and building a planned economy, and intensified the policy of the cultural revolution in the USSR.
Also known as: Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, Iósif Vissariónovich Dzhugashvili, Iossif Vissarionovitch Djougachvili, Josef Wissarionowitsch Stalin
143
film credits
29
television credits
172
1925–2026 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (172)
Showing 172 of 172 credits
American Experience
Self (archive footage)
1988
Mentiras verdaderas
Self (archive footage)
2011
The UnXplained
Self (archive footage)
2019
Apocalypse: The Second World War
Self (archive footage)
2009
The Vietnam War
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2017
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
Self (archive footage)
2012
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Self - Leader of the Soviet Union 1924 - 1953 (archive footage)
2024
Days That Shook the World
Self (archive footage)
2003
The Bloody Hundredth
Self (archive footage)
2024
World War II in Colour
Self (archive footage)
2009
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
Self (archive footage)
2019
War of the Century
1999
How to Become a Tyrant
Self (archive footage)
2021
Crusade in Europe
Self (archive footage)
1949
Capitalism: A Love Story
Self (archive footage)
2009Assassinations That Changed the World
1996
Hitler's War on Oil: Objective Baku
Self (archive footage)
2015
Churchill at War
Self - Premier of the Soviet Union (archive footage)
2024
Orwell: 2+2=5
Self (archive footage)
2025
The Century of Icons
Self (archive footage)
2022
A History of Antisemitism
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2022
When the Wind Blows
Self (archive footage)
1986
Apocalypse: Stalin
Self (archive footage)
2015
The Corporation
Self (archive footage)
2003
Three Wars
Self (archive footage)
2023
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
Self (archive footage)
1999
Imminent Threat
Self (archive footage)
2015
Apocalypse: D-Day
Self (archive footage)
2024
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
Self (archive footage)
2016
Walt Disney: Behind the Magic
Self (archive footage)
2024
The Soviet Story
Self (archive footage)
2008
Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union
2008
Korea: The Forgotten War
Self (archive footage)
1987
Russia, China, Iran: The Axis of Revenge
Self (archive footage)
2024
Our Man with the Enemy
Self (archive footage)
2026
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993
Filmmakers for the Prosecution
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2023
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Self (archive footage)
2019
Prelúdio
Self (archive footage)
2022
Stalin’s Death - The End of An Era
2013
Mission to Moscow
Joseph Stalin (archive footage) (uncredited)
1943
WWII: The Lost Color Archives
Self (archive footage)
2000
Storm Front in Mayo
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019
Behind the scenes of fascism
Self (archive footage)
1983
Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century
Self (archive footage)
2014
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
Self (archive footage)
1996
Korea: The Forgotten War in Colour
Self
2010
The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2017
Korea: The Never-Ending War
Self (archive footage)
2019
A Grin Without a Cat
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1977
Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2024
The Untold History Of The United States
Self (archive footage)
2012
Donbas Diary. How I Was at War
(archive footage)
2022
História do Comunismo
Self
2024
Big Data, Big Brother
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2020
The Real Spies Among Friends
Self (archive footage)
2022
Laboratory Greece
Self (archive footage)
2019
Songs for After a War
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1976V.I.Lenin: History Will Not Forgive Us
Self - archive footage
2007
Leif GW Persson - Min klassresa
Self (archive footage)
2015
The Society of the Spectacle
Self (archive footage)
1974
Rita the Field Marshal
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1967
1945: The Savage Peace
Self (archive footage)
2015
Stalin: Man of Steel
Self (archive footage)
2003
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Self (archive footage)
2020
Triumph Over Violence
Self (archive footage)
1965
Laissez-faire
Self (archive footage)
2015
Life Begins Tomorrow
Self (archive footage)
1950
How we built the Moscow metro
Himself (archive footage)
2014
A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History
Self (archive footage)
2024
Was der Wehrmachtsbericht verschwieg
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1963
Stalin's James Bond
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2017
Too Near the Sun
self (archive footage)
1966
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2018
I Betrayed Hitler
Self (archive footage)
2016
The Chosen
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
2016
The Fight For Peace
Self (archive footage)
1939
A Dying King: The Shah of Iran
Self (archive footage)
2017Аркадий Райкин. Королю дозволено всё
Self (archive footage)
2020
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1962
The Last Bolshevik
self (archive footage)
1994
The Mistake that Killed Hitler
Self (archive footage)
2023
Iran: The Hundred Year War
Self (archive footage)
2009
Warlords
(archive footage)
2007
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2017
How to Stage a Coup
2017
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Self (Archive Footage)
1975
Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
Self (archive footage)
2009
A Web of War
Self (archive footage)
1996War of the Century - When Hitler Fought Stalin
Self (Archive)
1999
L'Unità. Storia di un archivio
Archive footage
2025
The Battle of France
Self (archive footage)
1964
A Compassionate Spy
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022
Korea, A Hundred Years of War
Self (archive footage)
2020
The Girls
Self (archive footage)
1968
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2021
Pétain, such a popular hero
Self (archive footage)
2010
Executions 2
Self
1995Island of the Dead
1993
The Hitler–Stalin Pact
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2019
When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)
Self (archive footage)
1978
The Extraordinary Seaman
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1969
Reagan
Self (archive footage)
2011
:03 from Gold
Self (archive footage)
2002
Stalin's Last Plot
Self (archive footage)
2011
Cavid ömrü
özü (arxiv kadrlar)
2007
I Invite You to My Execution
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019
Money, Fascism, and Some Sort of Acid
Self (archive footage)
2020
Staline–Trotski, le Tsar et le Prophète
Self (archive footage)
2015
Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb
Self (archive footage)
2015
Life of a Shock Force Worker
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Parsifal: The Hidden Causes of World War II
Self (archive footage)
2021
Stalin, the Red Tyrant
Self (archive footage)
2007
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1
Self (archive footage)
1996
Moscow, Capital of the USSR
Self (archive footage)
1947
The Russian German War
Self (archive footage)
1995
State Funeral
Self (archive footage)
2019
Marshal Zhukov
Self (archive footage)
1984
Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party
Self (archive footage)
2020
Hitler & Stalin: Roots of Evil
Self (archive footage)
2004
A State Film
Self (archive footage)
2026
Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
Self (archive footage)
1969
Cannibal Island
Self (archive footage)
2009
Capsule
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016
Stalin - Trotsky: A Battle to Death
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
2015
L'Homme Que Nous Aimons Le Plus
Lui-même
1949
The Long Breakup
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2020Maoism: A Tragedy for China
Self (archive footage)
1978
The Beating: Last Stand
as self (Archive footage)
2022
Sputnik Mania
Self (archive footage)
2007The Mummy
Self (archive footage)
2025
Battle for Warsaw
Self - General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin)
1984
Svetlana About Svetlana
(archive footage)
2008Letters from Karelia
Self (archive footage)
2004
Wonderful Times
Self (archive footage)
1950
Hitler's Girl
Self (archive footage)
2012The Mask of Nippon
Himself (archive footage)
1942In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Himself
1937Soviets on Parade
Self
1933
The Soviet Union: A New Look
Self (archive footage)
1978
The Fall of Berlin
Self
1945
World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel
Joseph Stalin
2011
The Russian Revolution
Self (archive footage)
2017
The Mausoleum
Self (archive footage)
1999T.V. Sphincter
Self (archive footage)
1987Funeral of G.K. Ordzhonikidze
himself
1937
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
Himself (archive footage)
1925
Beginning
1967
CIA vs KGB: Battleground Berlin
Joseph Stalin
2016
Human Remains
Self (archive footage)
1998
Velikoye proshchaniye
1953
Reza Shah
Self (archive footage)
2013
Crimean Conference
Self
1945
Året var 1953
Self (archive footage)
2003
The Oath of the Albanian People Before the Great Stalin
himself
1953
Three Songs About Lenin
Self (archive footage)
1934
Berlin Conference
Self
1945
Stalin's Wife
2005
Our Cinema
(archive footage)
1940All-Union Physical Culture Parade
Self
1945
Stalin's Daughter
(archive footage)
2015
Condom
archive footage
1990
USSR (1917-1991)
Self (archive footage)
2024
Historical Nihilism and the Fall of the USSR
(archival footage)
2022
Stalin In Color
Self (archive footage)
2014
High Voltage
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
1981
Trouble in the Barbary
as self (Archive footage)
2024
I Was Stalin's Bodyguard
1989Stalin Dead
Self - Soviet Leader
1953
Papanin Squad
1938
Bogatyrs Of The Motherland
1937Piękny dwudziestoletni
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1986