October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is almost over, the German Kaiserreich in vain sends its last reserves to the slaughter. The working class is in a rebellious mood; the uprising of Kiel’s sailors against war and militarism sets off a call for revolution led by Liebknecht. On November 9, Liebknecht declares the Free Socialist Republic of Germany. But pro-Kaiser military and right wing Social Democrats oppose him.

Imprisoned journalist Joseph Michaels faces a government execution during a future American Revoluti...

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

When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the cons...

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who beca...

September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and pai...

Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly tak...

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement...

Warsaw, Poland, 1953. Mr. T., a renowned writer, lives in a hotel and earns his living by giving pri...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

Soldier Ignaz Wolz returns from WWI with an immeasurable hatred of capitalist war profiteers. He dec...

In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college profess...

During the ill-fated Hungarian revolution of 1956, Karcsi Szabo, star player on the water polo team,...

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and h...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...