Arktika: The Russian Dream That Failed

Arktika traces the ambitious and disasterous Soviet attempt to conquer a vast arctic region spanning half of the top of the world. Shouldering aside native hunters and herders, the Soviets built an industrial empire and moved two million people and a fleet of nuclear submarines into the Arctic. But, as an emerging and environmental and aboriginal rights movement can testify, the Soviet conquest left a legacy of nuclear waste, disrupted lives and environmental destruction in its wake. English with Russian subtitles.