Over the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il's birthday) celebration. While North Korean government wanted a propaganda film, the director kept on filming between the scripted scenes. The ritualized explosions of color and joy contrast sharply with pale everyday reality, which is not particularly terrible, but rather quite surreal.
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw...
There were two wars in Iraq--a military assault and a media war. The former was well-covered; the la...
Propaganda document of the communist regime about the so-called Číhošť miracle.
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...
Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated ...
A journey through Kim Jong Un’s past and present to understand the man and the myth who holds North ...
This is a unique film in Disney Production's history. This film is essentially a propaganda film sel...
They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is simila...
Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such i...
Join National Geographic's Lisa Ling as she captures a rare look inside North Korea - something few ...
Yael Hersonski's powerful documentary achieves a remarkable feat through its penetrating look at ano...
A shocking political exposé, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling f...
Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...
The first film to fully expose the humanitarian crisis of North Korea, this stylish, deeply moving d...
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...
Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Soli...