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The Collapse of The Soviet Union

Original title: Eestlased Kremlis

2006 | Documentary | Director: Toomas Lepp

The activities of the Estonian representatives at the Congress of the Communist Party of Soviet Union led to the collapse of the Soviet empire.

It was during the era of 1989-1991 when the Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union made the decisions that enabled the Baltic States to break away from the empire that once had occupied the countries. The crowning achievement of Estonian politicians in Kreml was disclosing of the secret protocols of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and declaring them null and void. Distributing the ideas of Estonian politicians among the national representatives in Moscow, intensive collaboration with Boris Yeltsin and Russian democrats made the communist empire to collapse. Documentary aims at correcting the widely spred misconception that regaining their independence was ...
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The Singing Revolution

Original title: Laulev revolutsioon

2006 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Maureen Castle Tusty, James Tusty

American film directors James Trusty and Maureen Castle Tusty regard Estonian Singing Revolution as the turning point of European history.

Compendious treatment about Estonian contemporary history and the SInging Revolution. Despite the fact that the documentary focuses on the process of Estonia regaining its independence in 1987-1991, the film also looks back to occupation of Estonia and the decades that followed the event. Lots of archival film materials have been used. We can see people who participated in the events and influenced the course of these events - politicians, conductors of song festivals, dissidents and regular citizens. The filmmakers emphasize the tradition of song festivals and the unique experience of a nation to sing themselves into freedom without violence. Documentary ...
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Alone and Together

Original title of the film "Üksinda ja koos"

2002 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Andres Sööt
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The War After War

Original title of the film "Sõda pärast sõda"

2002 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Simm
Akvaarium

1998 | Documentary | Director: Laine-Astrid Bils
Expatriate Estonians in Australia. Film No. 1, part 2

Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 1. film, II jagu

1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut

Expatriate Estonians in Australia and the Baltic Council in Australia do the awareness work in the Parliament of Australia, concerning the political situation in the Baltic States. Australian government officially recognized the independence declared in the Baltic States in August 1991 as the result.

Arvi Vainomäe and Maila Taimre from Melbourne talk about the awareness work among the members of the Parliament in Australia at the end of 1980s and early 1990s. This information cast light to the alarming events taking place in January 1991 in the Baltic States and raised awareness among the members of Australian government. When the referendum for restoring independence in the Republic of Estonia was held in March then the Senate of Australia accepted the resolution according to which they required the right for the Baltic States to be recognized as independent states by the Soviet Union. In August, ...
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Expatriate Estonians in Australia. Film No.1, part 1

Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 1. film, I jagu

1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut

Organizations of expatriate Estonians in Australia. Political fight for supporting the existence of Estonia and for declaring the occupation by the Soviet Union as an illegal act.

Ilmar Mägraken, the founding member of the Association of Estonian Societies in Australia, leads the meeting after the 16th Estonian Days in Melbourne have ended and expresses his gratitude to Bruno Metsar, the manager of the organizational committee. At his home in Sydney, Arnold Perendi recollects the founding of the Association of Estonian Societies in Australia in January 1952. Since expatriate Estonians were scattered around Australia, the association was founded on the basis of regional societies, all local societies became members of the association. The most important event was organizing the Estonian Days, national upbringing of local youth, founding further ...
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Mourning meeting at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto in January 1991

Original title: Baltlaste leinapäev Torontos

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Commemoration day at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto where Guntis Silinš, the Consul of the Republic of Latvia in Toronto holds his speech.

Commemoration day at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto. People exit the new city hall of Toronto and gather in front of the building; they are carrying the national flags of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with black ribbons. The commemoration meeting includes speeches about the tragic events in Riga where people were killed in attacks by special forces of militia. Guntis Silinš, the Consul of the Republic of Latvia in Toronto, holds a speech. He recollects the sufferings caused by the Soviet regime and confesses that the desire for freedom is being still suffocated at the present day. Guntis Silinš places ...
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The Summer War

Original title of the film: Suvesõda

1991 | Documentary | Director: Leo Ilves
And the Estonians Became Happy

Original title: Ja eestlased said rõõmsaks

1990 | Documentary | Director: Heini Drui

Battle around the re-opening of the memorial column "Lembit" in Suure-Jaani, dedicated to the war of independence. The column has been created by Amandus Adamson.

Battle around the re-opening of the memorial column "Lembit" in Suure-Jaani, dedicated to the war of independence. The column has been created by Amandus Adamson. Contemporaries recall the demolishing of the statue in 1941 and 1949 as well as discovering the column "Lembit" again in a warehouse in 1950s. Representative of the Estonian Communist Party is against the statue in the meeting of restoration of the monument. The importance of heritage protection and the church when restoring the sculpture. Photographs about the festive opening of the memorial stone. The title of the film has been borrowed from the description of ...
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