Controversy arose at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 5 following the screening of a documentary film that attempts to humanize Russian soldiers involved in the war against Ukraine. Russian-Canadian ...

A Rising Fury follows a Ukrainian couple in love, tracing the roots of Russia’s war from the 2013 Kyiv uprising to Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. To me, Ukraine is the Nightwatch of democracy.

Documentaries about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are nothing new. PBS, Sean Penn and the BBC have all produced substantive films in the first 2½ years of the conflict. There aren’t, however, a lot of ...