North Korea. The last communist country in the world. Unknown, hermetic and fascinating. Formerly known as “The Hermit Kingdom” for its attempts to remain isolated, North Korea is one of the largest sources of instability as regards world peace. It also has the most militarized border in the world, and the flow of impartial information, both going in and out, is practically non-existent. As the recent Sony-leaks has shown, it is the perfect setting for a propaganda war.
In 1978, two South Korean filmmakers--Director Shin Sang-ok and his star actress and ex-wife, Choi E...

True crime meets global spy thriller in this gripping account of the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, ...

The love of Kim Jong Il, the former dictator of North Korea, for cinema and his adventures, includin...

Ryun-hee Kim, a North Korean housewife, was forced to come to South Korea and became its citizen aga...

Four lucid grandmothers tell their story forgotten by history: the militancy and resistance of the y...

A group of women climbs a summer mountain situated in South Korea. They are refugees who have settle...

In 1962, a U.S. soldier sent to guard the peace in South Korea deserted his unit, walked across the ...

A documentary portrait of legendary Perfect Ten gymnast Nadia Comaneci after becoming an icon in the...

A short documentary about the making of "The Great Dictator."

Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder shows the Ugandan dictator meeting his Cabinet, reviewing his troops, exp...

Florian Hartung and Dirk Pohlmann have reconstructed a previously unknown dimension of the collabora...

If the cityscapes and patriotic anthems of this film seem a far cry from the bleak landscape of Seou...

Shrouded in secrecy and notoriously cash-strapped the North Korean regime has resorted to running on...

The assassination of Kim Jong-nam occurred on 13 February 2017 when two women attacked him with VX n...

They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the...

Join National Geographic's Lisa Ling as she captures a rare look inside North Korea - something few ...

A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to...

The lifestyle, self-styling and political opinions of Chechen dictator Ramsan Kadyrov are examined i...

Cheoljung, the chief chef of Okryugwan in North Korea, is separated from his younger brother in Sout...

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.