"They Chose Freedom" (in Russian: "Они выбирали свободу") is a four-part TV documentary produced in 2005 by Vladimir V. Kara-Murza for RTVi channel. The documentary is dedicated to the history of the Soviet dissident movement from its emergence in the 1950s until the collapse of the USSR, and features interviews with prominent Russian dissidents, including Vladimir Bukovsky, Elena Bonner, Sergei Kovalev, Alexander Yessenin-Volpin, Anatoly Sharansky and others. Vladimir V. Kara-Murza (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Кара-Мурза) was born in Moscow in 1981. ... RTVi is an international Russian-language television network, with studios based in Moscow, New York and Tel-Aviv, as well as a bureau in Washington DC, which broadcasts by satellite and cable in Europe, North America, Israel and some CIS countries. ... Vladimir Bukovsky early photo Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (Russian: ; b. ... Yelena Georgiyevna Bonner (Russian language: Елена Георгиевна Боннэр, born February 15, 1923) is a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and wife of late Andrei Sakharov. ... Sergei Kovalev Sergei Adamovich Kovalev (Russian: ) (born March 2, 1930) is a notable dissident and political prisoner in the former Soviet Union, and a human rights activist and politician in post-Soviet Russia. ... Natan Sharansky (Russian: Натан Щаранский, born January 20, 1948) is a notable Soviet dissident, Israeli politician and an author. ...

"They Chose Freedom" can be watched on the Web at the following address:

http://www.newsru.com/russia/01dec2005/film.html