Garry Kasparov

Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist. From 1984 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. 1 for 255 months overall for his career.

Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (2003)

Garry Kasparov is possibly the greatest chess player who has ever lived. In 1997, he played a match against the greatest chess computer: IBM's Deep Blue. He lost. This film depicts the drama that happened away from the chess board from Kasparov's perspective. It ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vikram Jayanti
CAST:  Marc Ghannoum  •  Michael Greengard  •  Anatoli Karpov  •  Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov is possibly the greatest chess player who has ever lived. In 1997, he played a match against the greatest chess computer: IBM's Deep Blue. He lost. This film depicts the drama that happened away from the chess board from Kasparov's perspective. It ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vikram Jayanti
CAST:  Marc Ghannoum  •  Michael Greengard  •  Anatoli Karpov  •  Garry Kasparov

Bobby Fischer Against the World (2011)

The first documentary feature to explore the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Liz Garbus
CAST:  Bobby Fischer  •  Henry Kissinger  •  Harry Benson  •  Garry Kasparov

The first documentary feature to explore the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Liz Garbus
CAST:  Bobby Fischer  •  Henry Kissinger  •  Harry Benson  •  Garry Kasparov

Winter, Go Away! (2012)

Ten director graduates from Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Film and Documentary Theatre lived with a camera for two months in order to chronicle the last “Russian winter” and its popular uprising against Vladimir Putin’s presidential run. People, faces, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Denis Klebleev  •  Elena Khoreva  •  Askold Kurov  •  Nadezhda Leonteva  •  Anna Moiseenko  •  Madina Mustafina  •  Zosya Rodkevich  •  Anton Seregin  •  Alexey Zhiryakov  •  Dmitriy Kubasov
CAST:  Alexei Navalny  •  Eduard Limonov  •  Boris Nemtsov  •  Ilya Yashin

Ten director graduates from Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Film and Documentary Theatre lived with a camera for two months in order to chronicle the last “Russian winter” and its popular uprising against Vladimir Putin’s presidential run. People, faces, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Denis Klebleev  •  Elena Khoreva  •  Askold Kurov  •  Nadezhda Leonteva  •  Anna Moiseenko  •  Madina Mustafina  •  Zosya Rodkevich  •  Anton Seregin  •  Alexey Zhiryakov  •  Dmitriy Kubasov
CAST:  Alexei Navalny  •  Eduard Limonov  •  Boris Nemtsov  •  Ilya Yashin

The Prince of Chess (2005)

Follow the brilliant mind of 13 year old Chess Grand Master Magnus Carlsen  (more)

DIRECTION:  Øyvind Asbjørnsen
CAST:  Magnus Carlsen  •  Garry Kasparov

Follow the brilliant mind of 13 year old Chess Grand Master Magnus Carlsen  (more)

DIRECTION:  Øyvind Asbjørnsen
CAST:  Magnus Carlsen  •  Garry Kasparov

Putin's Kiss (2011)

Masha Drokova is a rising star in Russia's popular nationalistic youth movement, Nashi. A smart, ambitious teenager who – literally – embraced Vladimir Putin and his promise of a greater Russia, her dedication as an organizer is rewarded with a university ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lise Birk Pedersen
CAST:  Oleg Kashin  •  Masha Bucher  •  Garry Kasparov  •  Dmitry Medvedev

Masha Drokova is a rising star in Russia's popular nationalistic youth movement, Nashi. A smart, ambitious teenager who – literally – embraced Vladimir Putin and his promise of a greater Russia, her dedication as an organizer is rewarded with a university ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lise Birk Pedersen
CAST:  Oleg Kashin  •  Masha Bucher  •  Garry Kasparov  •  Dmitry Medvedev

The Revolution That Wasn't (2009)

With capitalism and corruption becoming more entrenched in Russia, a father and his teenage son gear up for a yearlong political campaign to unseat President Putin in the 2008 elections and shift the country back toward socialism. Aliona Polunina's thoughtful ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alena Polunina
CAST:  Eduard Limonov  •  Anatoliy Tishin  •  Grigory Tishin  •  Andrey Tishin

With capitalism and corruption becoming more entrenched in Russia, a father and his teenage son gear up for a yearlong political campaign to unseat President Putin in the 2008 elections and shift the country back toward socialism. Aliona Polunina's thoughtful ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alena Polunina
CAST:  Eduard Limonov  •  Anatoliy Tishin  •  Grigory Tishin  •  Andrey Tishin

The Term. Beginning of a Big Story (2014)

The documentary project The Term was conceived in May 2012. When the directing trio commenced mapping the Russian sociopolitical landscape, Vladimir Putin had just settled into the Kremlin for his third term. The original experimental format of “documentary ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexandr Rastorguev  •  Pavel Kostomarov  •  Alexey Pivovarov
CAST:  Kseniya Sobchak  •  Maksim Vitorgan  •  Ilya Yashin  •  Alexei Navalny

The documentary project The Term was conceived in May 2012. When the directing trio commenced mapping the Russian sociopolitical landscape, Vladimir Putin had just settled into the Kremlin for his third term. The original experimental format of “documentary ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexandr Rastorguev  •  Pavel Kostomarov  •  Alexey Pivovarov
CAST:  Kseniya Sobchak  •  Maksim Vitorgan  •  Ilya Yashin  •  Alexei Navalny

More Human Than Human (2018)

Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence will be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity”. Inspired by Brian Christian’s study The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Femke Wolting  •  Tommy Pallotta
CAST:  David Hanson  •  Daniel H. Wilson  •  Garry Kasparov  •  Robert Epstein

Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence will be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity”. Inspired by Brian Christian’s study The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Femke Wolting  •  Tommy Pallotta
CAST:  David Hanson  •  Daniel H. Wilson  •  Garry Kasparov  •  Robert Epstein

Putin Forever? (2016)

Russian Federation, May 6, 2012. On the eve of the ceremony of inauguration of Vladimir Putin, elected for a third term, the police brutally repressed a march of protest over the lack of freedom existing in the nation. Some people believed that this demonstration ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kirill Nenashev
CAST:  Vsevolod Chernozub  •  Vitaly Morozov  •  Alexei Navalny  •  Boris Nemtsov

Russian Federation, May 6, 2012. On the eve of the ceremony of inauguration of Vladimir Putin, elected for a third term, the police brutally repressed a march of protest over the lack of freedom existing in the nation. Some people believed that this demonstration ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kirill Nenashev
CAST:  Vsevolod Chernozub  •  Vitaly Morozov  •  Alexei Navalny  •  Boris Nemtsov

Garry Kasparov: The Chess Player (2000)

Documentary about Garry Kasparov. The youngest world chess champion in history at 22 in 1985, Kasparov remained the top-rated player in the world for 20 years, until his retirement in 2005.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joël Calmettes
CAST:  Peter Hudson  •  Garry Kasparov

Documentary about Garry Kasparov. The youngest world chess champion in history at 22 in 1985, Kasparov remained the top-rated player in the world for 20 years, until his retirement in 2005.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joël Calmettes
CAST:  Peter Hudson  •  Garry Kasparov

Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin (2018)

The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life where truth is stranger than fiction.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alan Byron
CAST:  Anatoli Karpov  •  Viktor Korchnoi  •  Garry Kasparov  •  Viswanathan Anand

The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life where truth is stranger than fiction.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alan Byron
CAST:  Anatoli Karpov  •  Viktor Korchnoi  •  Garry Kasparov  •  Viswanathan Anand

Karpov Kasparov - Two Kings for a Crown (2014)

Interwoven portraits of Anatoli Karpov and Garry Kasparov, whose 25-year bitter rivalry accompanied the fall of the USSR. The story of a duel between two chess giants, fighting a personal war in a world gone to ruin. This battle of black and white was more than a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Charles Deniau  •  Serguei Kostine
CAST:  Anatoli Karpov  •  Garry Kasparov

Interwoven portraits of Anatoli Karpov and Garry Kasparov, whose 25-year bitter rivalry accompanied the fall of the USSR. The story of a duel between two chess giants, fighting a personal war in a world gone to ruin. This battle of black and white was more than a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Charles Deniau  •  Serguei Kostine
CAST:  Anatoli Karpov  •  Garry Kasparov

Two Men at War (2022)

As the war between Russia and Ukraine rages, this George Stephanopoulos documentary pulls back the curtain on the rise of the two men at the center of the conflict – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Stephanopoulos
CAST:  George Stephanopoulos  •  Anne Applebaum  •  Franklin Foer  •  Timothy Snyder

As the war between Russia and Ukraine rages, this George Stephanopoulos documentary pulls back the curtain on the rise of the two men at the center of the conflict – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  George Stephanopoulos
CAST:  George Stephanopoulos  •  Anne Applebaum  •  Franklin Foer  •  Timothy Snyder