(Russia and Germany, 2002)

Using a specially-designed digital camera, a massive crew, and a meticulously coordinated cast, director Aleksandr Sokurov created the longest shot in film history—a 95-minute long, uninterrupted journey through 300 years of Russian history. A revolutionary and overwhelming technical feat with questionable ideological undertones, the film seamlessly follows the narrator's travels through time and documents the lush extravagance of tsarist Russia and its icons, culminating in the Great Royal Ball on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution.

In Russian with English subtitles