Filmmaker Lech Kowalski explores his belief that struggle is "the epitome of living" in this documentary which compares the wildly different life experiences of himself and his mother. Kowalski's mother came of age in Poland during the early stages of World War II, and after failed attempts to outrun both Nazi and Russian forces she and her family were sent to a Soviet concentration camp, where inmates were tortured, mistreated, and starved to the point where some ate their own lice in a desperate struggle to survive. Kowalski also depicts his own self-inflicted season in hell during his years on the New York City punk rock scene as he wallowed in the sordid underbelly of drug addiction, pornography, prostitution, and streetwise decadence. On both stories, Kowalski finds a message of hope and strength in the midst of almost certain peril.
The final oral exam in history and social studies at one of Warsaw's high schools. The film illustra...
A documentary about Kim Philby, a British member of MI6 who was in reality a spy and defected to the...
Three decades after the nuclear explosion, almost everything has been said about this ecological and...
Documentary recounting the story of the Cuban Revolution and its impact on the young people of Cuba.
How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...
The life and death of socialist architectural monsters. An epic fairy-tale in five chapters.
Documentary footage of late 1950s Russia covers such cities and towns as Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Ya...
A film about the sociopolitical condition of the Soviet society at the end of the eighties.
January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish docto...
Film cameras cruise the Soviet Union's mighty Volga River, providing a view of the Russian people al...
In the Darhat valley in northern Mongolia, the horses of nomadic tribes are stolen by bandits who th...
With breathless pace, Hélène Chatelain ("the woman" in "La Jetée") reconstructs the life of Nestor M...
1972, the height of the cold war era, Canada vs USSR. 8 games of hard fought Hockey that would go on...
Moscow, January 1948. In the bitter cold, a large crowd attends the State Funeral of the Yiddish act...
This excellent and breathtaking documentary is the result of a long study on the Gulag to try to und...
The story of what daily life was like in Poland under communism: private conversations, cruel interr...
This film discusses conditions in the Soviet Union, including party activity and influence, the shor...
This film pictures Siberia, land of the exiles, and its rapid growth in becoming a highly industrial...
On March 9, 1953, Joseph Stalin was buried in Moscow in front of a million people. His funeral is th...
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to ...