Documentary
- 2008, documentary by Masha Novikova Anna, Seven Years on the Frontline; 78 min., the Netherlands.
- In 2008, Swiss director Eric Bergkraut made a documentary, Letter to Anna, about Politkovskaya's life and death. It includes interviews with her son Ilya, her daughter Vera, her ex-husband Alexander Politkovsky, and others—such as businessman Boris Berezovsky and film-maker Andrei Nekrasov.
- In 2011, Russian director Marina Goldovskaya made the documentary A bitter taste of Freedom, a Swedish Russian American co-production. The title relates to an earlier documentary film by the same director, A taste of freedom (1991) which is about Russian life in the new, post-Soviet reality and features the Politkovsky family.
A bitter taste of Freedom was shown at the 27. Warsaw International Film Festival where it won the Best Documentary Feature Award. From the festival's programme:
"She was brave, she was bold, and she was beautiful. In her fearless quest to uncover the wrongdoings of the Russian State, Anna Politkovskaya inspired awe in some and fear in countless others. An investigative journalist for Moscow's liberal 'Novaya Gazeta', she was the only spokesperson for victims of Putin's government. Hers was a lonely voice, yet loud enough for the entire country to hear. It was too loud. At age 48 she was assassinated for simply doing her job. A documentary about the bravery of the human spirit. As the director says, it 'is especially important now, when the world is so full of cynicism and corruption, when we so desperately need more people with Anna's level of courage and integrity and commitment'."
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