Dance of the Little Swans: Vaganova Academy auditions young dancers (RT Documentary)
Many young girls dream of becoming ballerinas, but very few are fully prepared to undertake the all-out effort and make…
Battle for Beret: Joining Russia’s Special Forces (RT Documentary)
Many young men dream of joining Russia’s Special Forces. However, for that to come true, they have to pass a…
Black October ’93: Tanks in Moscow, Blood on Streets (RT Documentary)
In October 1993, Russia was on the brink of civil war. Deputies from the Supreme Soviet of Russia — the…
Fed to Wed: Force-feeding in Mauritania (RT Documentary)
Women throughout the western world continue to dabble with new diets to lose weight, in Mauritania though parents force-feed their…
One Day with President: 24 hrs with Bolivia’s Evo Morales (RT Documentary)
Have you ever imagined the life of a president? The only way to understand it is to live every minute…
Tropic of Anti-Cancer (RT Documentary)
Hidden away in a valley in Ecuador is the world’s largest population of Laron syndrome sufferers. This rare form of…
Afghan Overdose: Battle against opium trade (RT Documentary)
Afghanistan is the world’s biggest exporter of black-market opium, from which heroin is made. It’s a multi-billion dollar business, responsible…
The Kosovo Exodus (RT Documentary)
Following NATO intervention in the bloody Serbian conflict of 1999, the Republic of Kosovo achieved independence. The new country failed…
Act of War: 5 years after South Ossetian conflict (RT Documentary)
RT’s Oksana Boyko tells the story of the Georgia-Ossetia War of 2008. Meet the people affected by the offensive and…
The Bridge. Russia’s grand project to link Crimea (RT Documentary)
RTD followed the Crimean Bridge construction project with former boxing world champion and now Russian State Duma Deputy Nikolay Valuev,…
‘They prefer boys in Afghanistan’: Dancing bachas recruited for sex (RT Documentary)
In Afghanistan women are forbidden to dance in public. Local men suffer – they want entertainment and sex at any…
Chechnya: Republic Of Contrasts (RT Documentary)
Russia’s Republic of Chechnya has undergone a revival after two military operations in its recent post-Soviet history. Today, the region…