A filmed 1970 performance of the China Central Ballet Troupe. Adapted from the film of the same title, The Red Detachment of Women was first staged in Beijing in 1964 and was one of the Eight Model Operas which dominated the national stage during the Cultural Revolution.

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the loc...

Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets inv...

George Balanchine's jewel-themed triptych, strikingly choreographed to the music of Faure, Stravinsk...

An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy ...

After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnervi...

The peasant girl Giselle discovers the true identity of her lover Albrecht – and that he is promised...

The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold Wa...
Odette dreams of becoming a ballerina, but the onset of scoliosis threatens that dream.

Hussein Erkenov's courageous and stinging indictment of communism. Five young Red Army recruits stru...

After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and g...

Sara joins Julliard in New York to fulfill her and her mother's dream of becoming the Prima ballerin...

A young girl leaves her Nigerian village to attend a ballet school in England. Fascinated by Tchaiko...

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recoun...

Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle re...

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist wi...

A young Greek man goes to Paris seeking help from a solitary and almost misanthropic distant relativ...

The young talented girl Anya, dreaming of a ballet, enters the choreographic school. Due to poor hea...

When rebellious street dancer Andie lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds hersel...

In the spring of 1913, Parisian businessman Gabriel Astruc opens a new theater on the Champs Elysées...