Recommendations for films, books, and art from and about Ukraine
Dear Kyiv Independent community members,
We’ve received a lot of requests from our members for recommendations for films, books, and art from and about Ukraine. Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of recommendations from some of our team members to get you started getting more acquainted with Ukrainian history and culture!
We also are launching a new benefit for members at the Champion tier and above: regular recommendations from the Kyiv Independent team for books, movies, and other similar materials related to Ukraine. Our first recommendation will be sent out soon – it is a book recommendation from our reporter Kate Tsurkan.
We’re looking forward to sharing more content like this in the future! Thank you for your support and your suggestions.
Movies
Books
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, Serhii Plokhy
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, Svetlana Alexievich
The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Stanislav Aseyev
The Orphanage, Serhiy Zhadan
Love in Defiance of Pain, a collection featuring acclaimed contemporary voices from Ukraine
Visual artists
Comments (10)
Thanks for the recommendations. I am currently reading The Gates Of Europe: A History Of Ukraine. Really appreciate the integrity of your journalism. Slava Ukraini.
Just a first note as I view the movies — the first one, Earth, is on a YouTube channel called Rvision, all Russian and Soviet movies! Maybe it would be good to start a Uvision — Ukrainian movies, rv, and video. 😊 Oh, and art and literature, with people reading stories aloud. And videoing great artwork and talking about it. And music. Okay— Ukrainian Culture Channel!
Great! I just bumped up my membership level to continue to get these. Slava Ukraïni!!
This is really helpful. Thanks.
I recieved Svetlana Alexievich's Voices from Chernobyl a few years ago. I was deeply moved by that book and I can't recommend it enough.
Hi Ana, Thank you for your comment – that book was actually my recommendation! I'm glad to hear other people recommend it too. It really stuck with me. Best, Brooke
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these are Great - Thank you! may I add Timothy Snyders Making of Ukaine" course from Yale
You guys are great, thanks!
I am swamped with emails, so I really appreciate Patreon keeping all these messages in one place. I can go back and find them easily. I am a bit disappointed that none of my recent reading of classical literature made it to your book list, but I do have my obsessive tendencies, and know that reading Herodotus and Thucydides is not for everyone. 🤣 Onward to victory. Slava Ukraïni