In the spring and summer of 1949, the People's Liberation Army launched an offensive under the orders of Mao Zedong and Zhu De, they crossed the Yangtze River and Nanjing was liberated on April 23 which signaled the fall of the KMT regime, Chiang Kai-Shek fled to Taiwan; on October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong standing on the rostrum of Tiananmen, solemnly declared the foundation of the People's Republic of China.

Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, an...

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

This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country d...

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

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

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

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

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

Trials and tribulations of a Croatian communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during a...

Based on a true story, Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution is the tale of a family from Bingley in Yorkshire...
In the spring of 1945 the war is still going on, but in Bulgaria the communists have already seized ...

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

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

Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very danger...

In Czarist Russia, a young peasant boy is sent to Siberia for insulting the Grand Duchess. Released ...

History is Marching is a feature length documentary analysing the rise in tensions between major pow...

Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hu...

In 1979 Cuba, flamboyant gay artist Diego attempts to seduce straitlaced David, an idealistic young...

Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 p...

Close to bankruptcy, Irena, the owner of a struggling pig farm in a tiny post-Communist town, finds ...