North Korean Labor Camps

"Shaman" was filmed on July the 16th, 1977 in the northernmost corner of Eurasia, on the Taymyr Pen...

After 20 years of wandering taiga weather stations searching for a suitable place for having a life,...

North Korea has nuclear weapons. How did it manage to get them quietly? Donald Trump is under the im...

In 2021, an extreme heatwave gave rise to huge wildfires in the vast subarctic forests of Sakha, a n...

Under the loving but firm guidance of an old fan turned director and cultural diplomat, and to the s...

Portrait of Mrs. B., a tough charismatic North Korean woman who smuggles between North Korea, China...

This is a journey like no other, after several months of wrangling with North Korean authorities in...

In 1917 Finnish explorer Sakari Pälsi travelled to Northeastern Siberia carrying a cinematograph and...

If the cityscapes and patriotic anthems of this film seem a far cry from the bleak landscape of Seou...

Since the ban on elephant hunting, Russia has had a monopoly on the ivory trade. But this ivory come...

Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the...

THE STRAIT GUYS follows Czech-born mining engineer, George, and his fast-talking protégé, Scott, alo...

The year 2011 marked the 70th anniversary of the deportations of June 14 1941, when 15 425 residents...

Shot in and around Yakutsk, in a remote region of Siberia, this film wrestles with the complex reali...

Getting into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes VBS has ever dealt with. They...

The children who were sent to Siberia in 1941 have not seen their fathers – in their memories they r...

Really strange documentary of Wheeler Dixon production quality on the Tunguska Event and the possibi...

A journey through several countries to find those who really know Kim Jong-un, North Korea's leader,...

Join National Geographic's Lisa Ling as she captures a rare look inside North Korea - something few...