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.

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...

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 1947, among the ruins of war and in anticipation of a catastrophic flood, the locals of a Vojvodi...

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

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

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...

Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart hi...

Set in 1979, following a young Communist man's relationship with a gay Catholic writer, exploring to...

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

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

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

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she ta...

The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives i...

Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hu...
The life of a Romanian Orthodox Priest, who went from a hard childhood in godless, communist Romania...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

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