2008, National Television Company of Ukraine. The programme ‘The Fatal Woman Marko Vovchok’ is dedicated to the writer's difficult life and creative path and her relationships with men (Opanas Markovich, Mykola Kulish, Ivan Turgenev, Dmitry Pisarev, Ivan Pasik).

The video features: opening credits, People's Artist of Ukraine Natalia Sumska in the role of Marko Vovchok (reading excerpts from letters and works), archival photographs, a monument to the writer in Nemirov, Nemirov Palace, the Motronivka farmstead, the former home of Mykola Verbytsky, and the Kachanivka Reserve.

Speakers: Doctor of Philology Serhiy Halchenko; Scientific Secretary of the M. Kotsyubinsky Museum Olga Yarmolenko; writer Svitlana Koronenko; Head of the Marko Vovchok Museum Nataliya Steblovska; Candidate of Philology Nataliya Levchik; Larysa Lykhvar, head of the research department at the Kachanivka Reserve; Kateryna Rybalko, editor-in-chief of the magazine Dyvoslovo; writer Iryna Lyubovyk; writer, critic, and winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize Mykhailo Slaboshpytskyi; senior research associate at the Marko Vovchok Museum Nina Levchenko.

Author: Teodozia Zarivna.

The Fatal Woman by Marko Vovchok

2005, National Television Company of Ukraine. A program from the Classic Premieres series dedicated to People's Artist of Ukraine Volodymyr Hryshko.

The video features: screensavers, archival footage and videos from the singer's performances and life, an interview with Volodymyr Hryshko in the studio with the host, a fragment of a performance with opera singer Monserrate Caballé.

Author: Tatiana Milenina.

Interview with Volodymyr Hryshko

2008, National Television Company of Ukraine. The program "Against all odds... Surgery!" is dedicated to Oleksandr Shalimov, MD, one of the founders of the Ukrainian surgical school.

The video features: screensavers, an interview with Oleksandr Shalimov, archival photos and videos, chronicle footage, operating rooms, the process of surgery, and exhibits of the Museum of Medicine.

Comments: Mykhailo Nychytailo, MD, PhD, Professor; Serhiy Shalimov, MD, Professor.

Reference: Oleksandr Oleksiyovych Shalimov (January 20, 1918 - February 28, 2006) was a prominent Ukrainian Soviet surgeon, academician of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Medicine. He founded a modern Ukrainian surgical school, introduced more than 800 new techniques, including liver and stomach resection and pancreatic surgery, and organized the Institute of Surgery and Transplantation, which is named after him. Under Shalimov's leadership, the first heart transplant in Ukraine was performed. During his life, he performed about 40,000 operations, published more than 830 scientific papers, and was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine.

Outstanding surgeon Oleksandr Shalimov

2000, National Television Company of Ukraine. A program about the Hero of Ukraine, Ukrainian scientist and physician Lyubov Mala.

The video includes: screensavers, the National Institute of Therapy of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine in Kharkiv (now the L. Mala National Institute of Therapy of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine), photos from the personal archive, working moments, laboratories, offices of the institute, wards, medical equipment. An interview with Liubov Mala about her work (cardiovascular diseases), career, love for patients, the profession of a doctor, and the creation of the institute.

Comments: Yevhen Nikolenko, MD, PhD; Volodymyr Volkov, MD, PhD, Professor; Oleksandr Tveretynov, Deputy Director, Honored Doctor of Ukraine.

Reference: Liubov Trokhymivna Mala (January 13, 1919 - April 14, 2003) was a prominent Ukrainian physician, therapist and cardiologist, Doctor of Medicine, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Scientist of the Ukrainian SSR and Hero of Ukraine. She founded the Institute of Therapy in Kharkiv and was the first to introduce a system of staged treatment of myocardial infarction in Ukraine, and trained more than 200 candidates and doctors of sciences. On her initiative, cardiology departments were organized throughout the country, and the Institute of Therapy now bears her name.

Lyubov Mala: Doctor of Medical Sciences

1998, Kyiv.

In the video, a prominent physician and scientist Mykola Amosov gives advice to young people on spiritual and physical health, talks about the heart surgery center and the requirements he puts forward to hospital staff.

Academician Amosov's advice

Main editorial office of literary and dramatic programs of RT (now the National Public Television and Radio Company of Ukraine), 1989.

The program "A Tale of Restlessness" is dedicated to the biography and work of the Ukrainian director and actor Les Kurbas.

In the video: the village of Stary Skalat, Ternopil region, a prayer service at the grave of Les Kurbas's father - Stepan Kurbas; Ivchenko and Taniuk conduct a tour of the museum-estate; museum exposition, Valeriy Ivchenko recites poetry, talks about scenarios.

Hosts are People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR Valeriy Ivchenko and director, writer Les Taniuk.

The program uses materials from the literary heritage of Les Kurbas, memoirs of Mykola Bazhan, Ostap Vyshna, Yosyp Hirnyk and fragments from the documentary film "Les Kurbas".

Reference: Ukrainian director, theater reformer, founder of the Berezil Theater Les Kurbas was born in the village of Stary Skalat in the Ternopil Region, into a family of Galician actors Stepan and Wanda Kurbas. In February 1987, a memorial museum-estate dedicated to his life and the history of Ukrainian theater was opened in the same village. The exhibition is located in the house where the Kurbas family lived.

Les Kurbas: about theater and Ukraine

2006, Baturyn, Chernihiv region.

In the video: paintings of Mazepa, art, historical maps, manuscripts, monuments, churches, a memorial table, and a journalist's stand-up routine.

Hetman Ivan Mazepa

2010, National Television Company of Ukraine. The program "As it is" is dedicated to the outstanding Ukrainian choreographer Pavlo Virskyi. 

The film uses materials from the film and photo archive of Ukraine, the archive of NTCU, the private archive of Valery Debeloy and fragments of documentaries: "Cossacks in Paris", "Today with P. Virsky", "Birth of Dance", "Dance of the Ukrainian People".

Comments: choreographer Valery Debeliy; choreographer Oleksandr Segal; composer and conductor Ihor Ivashchenko; film director Volodymyr Khmelnytskyi; soloists of the ensemble: Liliya Melnychonok, Tetyana Mikhalevich, Leonid Lukashin, Hryhoriy Chapkis, Olena Zakharova; ensemble director Danylo Fedoryachenko.

Author: Tetyana Milenina.

Pavlo Virskyi: outstanding Ukrainian choreographer

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2007.

The documentary film is dedicated to the life and creative path of the poet Olena Teliga.

The film uses the texts of letters and poems by Olena Teliga, as well as fragments of journalistic articles: "To the Problem of Style", "Strength Through Joy", "Party of Life", "Open the Window!", "Brotherhood to the People!".

Comments: writer Oleksandr Kucheryavyi, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Mykola Zhulynskyi, doctor of historical sciences Nadiya Myronets, leading researcher of the Central State Academic Theater of Ukraine Kateryna Kryvoruchko, doctor of philological sciences Yuriy Kovaliv.

The text was read by: Viktor Vlasenko, on behalf of Olena Teliga — Zinaida Zhuravlyova.

Author — Teodoziya Zarivna.

Reference: Olena Teliga is a Ukrainian poet, publicist, literary critic, and active member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. In 1941–1942, she headed the Union of Ukrainian Writers in Kyiv, edited the literary and artistic weekly "Litavry" at the newspaper "Ukrainian Word", and participated in the activities of the Ukrainian underground. In February 1942, she was shot by German occupation troops in Babyn Yar.

Olena Teliga: "Private Letter to the World"

Ternopil Television, 2005. The program "Without Heroes, There Is No Nation" is dedicated to the Ukrainian political figure Yaroslava Stetsko.

Oksentiy Kameniuk, a member of the Main Wire of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists of Ternopil, tells about the life of Yaroslava Stetsko.

The program used video materials from the photo and video archive of the regional Board of the All-Ukrainian Brotherhood of OUN-UPA Soldiers "Lysonya".

The program was worked on by: Petro Bubnii, Iryna Bereza, Vitaliy Pavuk, Yuriy Danylyuk, Roman Stasyshyn.

Reference: Yaroslava (Slava) Stetsko is a Ukrainian political figure, journalist, member of the Wire of the OUN, head of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Peoples (ABN) and the fifth head of the OUN(b) in 1991–2001. Co-organizer of the UPA Red Cross, the OUN Women's and Youth Network. After Ukraine gained independence, she headed the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists party and was elected three times as a People's Deputy of Ukraine.

Yaroslava Stetsko "Without Heroes, There Is No Nation"

2014, Volyn television. The program “The Unsolved World of Yosyp Strutsiuk” from the series “Outstanding Volynians”. The program is dedicated to the Ukrainian writer of the sixties, Yosyp Strutsiuk.

In the video: a park, the Lesya Ukrainka Museum in Kolodyazhne, books, a library, landscapes of the village and nature, an interview with Yosyp Strutsiuk, archival photos and videos.

Comments: Ivan Chernetskyi, Viktor Verbych, Tetiana Bondar, and Mykola Martyniuk, members of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine; Borys Revenko, member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine; librarian Iryna Hadzhyieva; Alla Opeida, Honored Artist of Ukraine; Zhanna Masyuk, a dissertation candidate at Lesya Ukrainka University; and Mykola Romaniuk, Mayor of Lutsk.

Author: Olena Sobets.

The enigmatic world of Yosyp Struciuk

An interview with Hero of Ukraine, People's Artist of the USSR Ada Rogovtseva. She talks about the theater, her roles on stage and in movies. She also tells us that she is finishing a book about her family and the people she met in her life. 

There are excerpts from the films in which Rogovtseva starred. 

Personalities