The building of blast furnaces Magnitogorsk and the Kubas Basin by Komsomol, the Communist Union of youth, as part of Stalin’s first five-year plan.

The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the failure of Communism has been symbolically documented...

Portrait of a Russian village near Kaliningrad and its multiethnic inhabitants.

Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the ...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating ...

Russia is grappling with a critical issue: they have become the country with the most at large seria...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

Four lucid grandmothers tell their story forgotten by history: the militancy and resistance of the y...

As the Communist Party of China celebrates its 100th anniversary, this documentary looks back at the...
A short film by Barry Lowe and Dino Mahoney, starring Pauline Burton as Anna. The film is an introdu...

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

The hippie movement that captivated hundreds of thousands of young people in the West had a profound...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...

Short biographical documentary about the life of Alfred Florstedt and his life as a progressive comm...