After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and women who had been spied on and recorded without their knowledge could be reconstructed.
Using obscure archival footage, animated illustrations and interviews, this film tells the story of ...
A group of friends embark on a camping trip for a ten-year high school reunion. Their celebration so...
At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...
Taking stock of the extraordinary adventure of "Pif Gadget", a French publishing phenomenon of the 1...
The series will be discussed how the Yugoslav secret service methods mimicked the NKVD, about 2 mill...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
1942 Paris. Annette is 20 years old, Jean is barely older, they love each other and the future is br...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
Procreation is the social duty of all fertile women, was the political thinking during the 1960s and...
Poland, 1970. When popular protests erupt in the streets due to rising prices, the communist governm...
15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies sh...
During World War II there were nearly 2,500 Allied prisoners held in Sandakan POW camp in British No...
A native of Sennwald, Anna Göldi arrived in Glarus in 1765. For seventeen years, she worked as a mai...
In 1989, Jenny Ecker, an 18-year-old daughter of an entrepreneur, flees from Hildesheim to the east ...
In the run-up to parliamentary elections in mid-October, Polish filmmaker Marcin Wierzchowski travel...
The story of Fred Paterson, member for Bowen in the Queensland parliament in the 1940s and the only ...
Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Soli...
The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...