Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв; 2 March 1931 - 30 August 2022) was a Russian and former Soviet politician. The eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, he was the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was also the country's head of state from 1988 until 1991, serving as the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990, and president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. Ideologically, he initially adhered to Marxism–Leninism although by the early 1990s had moved toward social democracy.

Filmography

• SLEEPERS — Mikhail Gorbachev
• 2024Gorbacheva
• 2017How to Stage a Coup
• 2016Cuba, l'histoire secrète
• 2015The Russian Woodpecker — Former President Russia (archive footage)
• 2011He Came to Give Us Freedom
• 2010The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
• 2006Freedom's Fury
• 2003Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde
• The School for Scandal
• HARDtalk
• 1995Coup-2: Yet Another Uprising or the Shadow of Civil War
• 1993Faraway, So Close! — Mikhail Gorbachev
• 1989Day of Revelation
• 1988Bukharin and the Terror
• 1988Children of the 20th Congress — (archive footage)
• 1987Der springende Punkt

Appearances as themselves (93)

• Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown — Self (archive footage)
• 2025AUM: The Cult at the End of the World — Self (archive footage)
• 2025JFK Assassination: A New Perspective — Self - Former General Secretary CCCP
• Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? — Self (archive footage)
• Traitors — Self (archive footage)
• Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War — Self (archive footage)
• Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator — Self (archive footage)
• 2023In the Grip of Gazprom — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2023The Man Who Challenged Putin — Self
• Three Wars — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes — Self (archive footage)
• Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Gorbachev. Heaven — Self
• Hullu vuosi 1991 — Self
• 2021Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose! — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Sakharov. Two Lives — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Stasi: A State Against Its People — Self (archive footage)
• 2021The Art of Dissent — Self - Subject (archive footage)
• First Ladies — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Frenemies: Putin and Trump — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• History 101 — Self (archive footage)
• 2020My Favorite War — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• 2020Stalin and the Katyn Massacre — Self (archive footage)
• 2020The Long Breakup — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• 2020The Way I See It — Self (archive footage)
• 201930 Years of Democracy — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Meeting Gorbachev — Self
• 2019Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• 2019The Man Who Defied Beijing — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• 2019Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• 2018Lusia in Wonderland — Self
• 2018Our Africa — Self
• 2018Putin's Witnesses — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• 2017Era Of Dance — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Free to Rock — Self
• 2017Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired — Self
• Road to 9/11 — Self (archive footage)
• 2017The Arrow of Time — Self
• 2017À la recherche de... Pierre Richard — Self - Soviet and Russian statesman (archive footage)
• Код доступа — Self
• Legends of Cinema — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Zero Days — Self (archive footage)
• Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Laissez-faire — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Those Who Dare — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Quando c'era Berlinguer — Himself
• 201241 — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende — Self
• Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States — Self
• 2012Palme — Self (archive footage)
• 2011A Bitter Taste of Freedom — Self
• 2011The Last Days of the USSR — Self
• 2009Disco and Atomic War — Self (archive footage)
• 2009Here to Stay — Self
• Album — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2008Hype: The Obama Effect — Self (archive footage)
• 2008The Soviet Story — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Hammer & Tickle — Self (archive footage)
• 2007The 11th Hour — Self
• 2007The Battle of Chernobyl — Self
• 2006Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo! — Self (archive footage)
• 2006The Collapse of The Soviet Union — Self
• 2004Disaster at Chernobyl — Self (archive footage)
• Zero Hour — Self (archival footage)
• Days That Shook the World — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Guts and Glory — Self (archive footage)
• Beckmann — Self
• 1999Die Sekretäre — Self (archive footage)
• Faith of the Century: A History of Communism — Self (archive footage)
• 1999The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files — Self
• 1999When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World — Self
• maybrit illner — Self
• Ein Herz für Kinder — Self
• 1998Reagan — Self
• The Johannes B. Kerner Show — Self
• 1996Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2 — Self (archive footage)
• Goldene Henne — Self
• 1995Satans mördare — Self
• 1994But... Seriously — Self (archive footage)
• 1992New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood — Self
• 1991Ceausescu: Behind the Myth — Self (archive footage)
• DAS! — Self
• 1991Desert Storm: The War Begins — Self (archive footage)
• 1991Latest News About Doomsday — Self
• The Second Russian Revolution — Self
• 1990Streng vertraulich oder Die innere Verfassung — Self (archive footage)
• 1990Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1989The Abyss — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1984Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer — Self
• Menschen — Self
• Mikhail Gorbachev: A Man Who Changed the World — Self