National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2011.

The documentary film "The Righteous" is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the tragedy in Babyn Yar and the righteous people who saved prisoners during World War II.

On the video: memories of the Righteous of Ukraine about how they saved Jews from the occupying power; fragments of films; photographs of the saved people.

Comments: Archbishop Emeritus of the UGCC Lyubomyr Huzar, President of the Jewish Council of Ukraine Ilya Levitas, director of the play "Andrey" Fedir Stryhun, Father Dean I. Barbuliak, founder of the Kharkiv Holocaust Museum Larisa Volovyk; The Righteous Among the Nations of Ukraine share their memories: Lina Shulga-Antonets, Yuriy Grot, Dmytro and Lydia Omelyanyuk, Sofia Boyko-Yarova.

The film uses materials from the Kharkiv Holocaust Museum, the Museum of the Holy Protection Monastery of the Studite Order, the Israeli National Holocaust and Heroism Memorial "Yad Vashem", fragments of the films "Schindler's List", "The Pianist", "With a Camera on the Eastern Front", "The Priest of Majdanek", "Women from Babyn Yar Street".

Reference: Righteous Among the Nations is an honorary title that the State of Israel, through the Yad Vashem institution, grants to non-Jews who, risking their own lives, saved Jews during the Holocaust without expecting material reward. Recognition is carried out by a special commission according to strict criteria based on documentary evidence and testimonies, and the distinguished individuals receive a medal, a certificate and a memorial honor.

Babyn Yar: Righteous Among the Nations

State enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1995.

The documentary film "Boykos" is dedicated to the ethnographic group of Ukrainians living in the Carpathians; the film tells about their history, traditions and prominent cultural figures who come from this ethnic group.

On the video: Boyko Christmas traditions, prayer, decorating the house, bringing in the didukh; Boyko history; musicians performing folk music, landscapes of the Carpathians; comments by historians and ethnographers; a story about beliefs, features of the Christian rite of the Boykos; pottery and woodworking; The first Boyko festivals in the city of Turka.

Comments by Doctor of Historical Sciences, Director of the Lviv Institute of Ethnology Stepan Pavlyuk.

Reference: Boykos are an ethnographic group of Ukrainians who historically live in the central part of the Ukrainian Carpathians. They have preserved distinctive features of traditional material and spiritual culture: wooden sacral architecture of the tripartite type, original structure, archaic wedding and calendar rites, polyphonic choral singing and specific dialects with characteristic linguistic features. In the traditional economy of the Boykos, mountain cattle breeding, agriculture, forestry and salt production played a leading role. Today, their cultural heritage is an important component of the regional identity of the Carpathians.

Boyko traditions

February 17, 2022, Mariupol, Donetsk region.

A report about volunteer Valentina Kostyantynivska, who joined the territorial defense forces on the eve of a full-scale invasion. Footage from shooting courses, weaving camouflage nets, and an interview with Valentina.

Volunteer from Mariupol

State enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1992.

The TV film "Blaga vist" is dedicated to the fate of children who became victims of the Chernobyl disaster.

On the video: hospital, children in the ward; mothers talk about the health of their children, radiation diseases, blood diseases; families from Polissya being examined by doctors, talking about the treatment process, finding specialists, the difficulty of treatment in Ukraine, lack of funds for foreign rehabilitation; various plans of sick children.

The film contains sensitive footage.

Chernobyl tragedy: children's diseases

February 25, 2024, Kyiv.

Video: Independence Square, farewell ceremony for Stepan Khmara, open coffin; people bring flowers, hugs, dissident's family; among those present at the commemoration are Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov, People's Deputy Yulia Tymoshenko; speeches on the Square, beginning of the burial ceremony of Ukrainian dissident Stepan Khmara.

The video contains sensitive content.

Reference: Stepan Khmara is a Ukrainian politician, human rights activist and dissident, a long-time political prisoner of Soviet concentration camps, People's Deputy of Ukraine. One of the leading participants in the national liberation movement of the late 20th century, an active figure in the Ukrainian Helsinki Union and the Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party. Hero of Ukraine, holder of the Order of Freedom and the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise.

Stepan Khmara: Farewell Ceremony

2016, National Television Company of Ukraine. Broadcast of the program “Public University.” Lecture topic: The Endless Path of Kazimir Malevich. Host — Gennady Popenko.

In the video: opening credits, guests in the studio, lecturer giving a lecture, guests asking questions. Lecturer — architect Dmitry Antonyuk.

Guests of the program: designer Fedir Vozianov; sculptor Carlos Garcia Lahos.

“Public University”: Kazimir Malevich

A story about the commemoration of those killed during the Revolution of Dignity, the fifth anniversary. 

As a result of a sniper's bullet and clashes with Berkut soldiers, the first to die were Maidan activists Serhiy Nigoyan, Mykhailo Zyzhnevsky, Roman Senyk, Yuriy Verbytsky and Oleksandr Badera. 

In the video: a solemn procession to Hrushevskoho Street, laying flowers and lighting candles. Volunteer Svitlana Tereykovska tells about her acquaintance with Serhiy Nigoyan. A memorial service at the memorial to the Heavenly Hundred heroes. 

Revolution of Dignity: honoring the first victims

2015, Sumy ODTRK. The program "In Memory of the Heavenly Hundred" is dedicated to Oleksiy Bratushko, who was killed during the Revolution of Dignity.

On the video: screensavers, archive videos of the revolution, clashes with the "Berkut", interviews with parents, Oleksiy's funeral, photos from the family archive, staged shooting with Oleksiy, Sumy comprehensive school No. 11, commemorative plaque.

Comments: school principal Olena Stayko; students - Valeria Tseluyko, Pavlo Buryk and Iryna Vlezko.

Heavenly Hundred: Oleksiy Bratushka from Sumy

Kyiv, February 20, 2014. Unedited video of the aftermath of the fighting on Instytutska Street in Kyiv.

In the footage: activists, medics and volunteers providing assistance to the wounded; lined up men in helmets with sticks; a priest; burned buildings; dismantled paving stones; a stage with the inscription "Glory to Ukraine!"; activists near the stage; barrels and bottles for Molotov cocktails.

The consequences of the fighting on Instytutska Street

October 27, 2003, Shabo village, Odessa region.

In the video, Yaroslav Kendzor interviews Viktor and Serhiy Medvedchuk's older brother, Volodymyr Gulko. Volodymyr and his wife Angelina are in the yard of their house, Yaroslav Kendzor is in the studio, interviewing the family in their home about the problems and difficulties of everyday life, the brothers' wealth, human envy, their parents, and the complicated relationship between the brothers.

Video from Yaroslav Kendzor's personal archive.

“Political sketches”: the Medvedchuk family

Public action "Peaceful Offensive" in Mariinsky Park.

On the video: activists gather in the park near the Verkhovna Rada, remove paving stones. Squads of "Berkut" with shields. Action organized against the competition.

Self-defense of the Maidan is hosted by Elbrus Tadeev together with Zoryan Shkiryak.
Kozak Havrylyuk gives a brief comment on the events taking place.

The first fights. Security forces use stun grenades. Wounded and injured activists. Ambulances. People run along Instytutska Street.

 February 18. Mariinsky Park

2007, National Television Company of Ukraine. The program “Justice and Law” is devoted to issues of justice in the Ukrainian legislative system, laws, courts, and judges, using examples from the ancient judicial system, Rus law in Rus, the legal court of the Third Reich, and the court of the Soviet Union.

The video features: opening credits, medieval illustrations and engravings, black-and-white newsreels, expert commentary, and commentary on the case of Vasyl Stus.

Expert commentary: Anton Kozlovsky, Doctor of Law, philosopher of law; Zinaida Tarasenko, Deputy Chair of the Dnipro District Court of Kyiv; Vasyl Kostytsky, Scientific Director of the Institute for Legislative Forecasting and Legal Expertise; Andriy Portnov, Member of the Verkhovna Rada of the 5th convocation, Deputy Chair of the Committee on Justice; Sergey Alekseev and Sergey Boyarchuk, lawyers; Igor Chudovsky, arbitrator; Alexander Udovychenko, Chair of the Council of Commercial Court Judges; Lyudmila Kuzmichova, chief consultant of the Museum of the History of Commercial Courts of Ukraine.

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