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  • Bronze night: The Russian riot in Tallinn
    Bronze night: The Russian riot in Tallinn

    Title in Estonian: Pronksiöö: Vene mäss Tallinnas

    2007 | Documentary | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

    Documentary about the two violent nights in central Tallinn in April 2007 after the relocation of the Soviet military monument in Tõnismägi, Estonia.

  • Arnold Rüütel. Unfinished sentence
    Arnold Rüütel. Unfinished sentence

    Original title: Arnold Rüütel. Lõpetamata lause

    2006 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

    The documentary was finished before the presidential election in 2007; it opposes the speeches and interviews held by Arnold Rüütel during the Soviet era with the ones held during the period of Estonia regaining its independence.

  • Nõmme
    Nõmme

    1999 | Overviews, Documentary | Director: Rein Raamat, Helvi Raamat

    Documentary commissioned by Nõmme city district government about the former independent garden suburb - Nõmme.

  • Birth of the Statehood
    Birth of the Statehood

    Original title: Riigiks saamine

    1993 | Documentary | Director: Heikki Aasaru

  • 1000 aastat Venemaa ristimisest.Juubeli tähistamine Eestis.intervjuu:metropoliit Aleksius,Tallinna Issandamuutmise peakiriku vanem Raul Hindrikus
  • Katyn Massacres 50th Anniversary
    Katyn Massacres 50th Anniversary

    Title in Estonian: Katõni massimõrva 50. aastapäeva tähistamine Torontos

    1989 | Newsreel, Amateur films | Director:

    Expatriate Polish people in Canada, Toronto are commemorating the massacre of Katyn in 1939.

  • Sea Trip to Estonia, 40th Anniversary of March Deportation in Tallinn
    Sea Trip to Estonia, 40th Anniversary of March Deportation in Tallinn

    Title in Estonian: Laevareis Eestisse, märtsiküüditamise 40. aastapäev Tallinnas

    1989 | Newsreel, Amateur films | Director:

    Enn and Helga Nõu in Estonia. Commemoration of the 40th anniversary of March deportation near Tammsaare statue, Tallinn on March 25, 1989.

  • The sound
    The sound

    Original title: Helin

    1985 | Commissioned, Other categories, Documentary | Director: Peep Puks

    Documentary by Peep Puks about the Estonian 20th Song and Dance Festival in 1985.

  • Tartu Riikliku Ülikooli 350. Aastapäeva tähistamine
    Tartu Riikliku Ülikooli 350. Aastapäeva tähistamine

    1982 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Elo Tust

  • Sõjaveteranid kokkutulekul
    Sõjaveteranid kokkutulekul

    1980 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Elo Tust

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