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.

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies ...

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

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

Over the past hundred years, dramatic social upheavals have taken place in the name of Karl Marx's t...

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

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

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

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

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world an...

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

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

Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye su...

Both a political narrative and a psychological reflection, this documentary explores the personal jo...

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

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

Javier Navarro, a Falangist, is ordered to infiltrate Republican Madrid to deliver a message to a me...

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

In Western Germany, two brothers and their organization help people escape to non-communist Germany....

Three young man run in the rain with a borrowed car. The first accident, whose victim is a girl, giv...