EPISODE
The Putin Interviews - Season 1
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone interviews the Russian president Vladimir Putin about divisive issues related to the US-Russia relations.
28 March 1928, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
15 September 1946, New York City, New York, USA
10 November 1948, Hopkins, Minnesota, USA
14 June 1946, New York City, New York, USA
26 October 1947, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 August 1936, Canal Zone, Panama
31 October 1931, Wharton, Texas, USA
17 March 1945, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
7 October 1952, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
12 June 1924, Milton, Massachusetts, USA
6 July 1946, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
17 July 1954, Hamburg, Germany
September 11, 1965 in Damascus, Syria
1 February 1931, Butka, Ural Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Talitsa Raion, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia]
9 July 1950, Yenakiyevo, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Yenakiieve, Ukraine]
4 August 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
19 August 1946, Hope, Arkansas, USA
20 November 1942, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
June 13, 2017
The conversations are conducted via a Russian translator, and you have to be in the mood to read a lot of subtitles to engage with Putin and Stone's policy discussions, but that small effort is well worth it.
June 07, 2017
It was a match made in heaven.
June 06, 2017
It's not every interview-driven documentary that's a pleasure to look at, but The Putin Interviews is much more visually dynamic than either of its on-camera subjects.
June 12, 2017
As journalism, this is scattershot at best, but as a conversation that covers a vast span of Russian history, culture, and politics as refracted through the mind of Russia's president -- it's often remarkable.
June 09, 2017
The special is solicitous, even obsequious, but sometimes revealing anyway.
June 06, 2017
It's riveting in how dangerous and intimate it feels, leveraging its multiple camera-angles and hand-held shots to make the viewer feel as if they, too, are in the room with Vladimir Putin.
June 08, 2017
In the absence of startling revelations, what's fascinating about this elaborate production is the theater of it all.
June 09, 2017
However charitable one might feel about his intentions, this was a case where a few clear rules were surely in order.
