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.

A horse and cart carrying two nuns is stopped by two men with fixed bayonets.

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Under the sign of the swastika, it was, amongst other things, turned into a naval base, it got heavi...

Bob Woodruff’s daring 880-mile journey along the China-North Korea border examines the delicate rela...

An educational film about power sources that’s rendered as a lyrical meditation on heat and vapor, T...
During World War II, the propaganda engine of the U.S. government made a pivotal decision with unfor...

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

Holocaust survivors, children of survivors, and grandchildren - as well as German freedom fighters -...

This remarkable documentary dedicates itself to an extraordinary chapter of the second World War – t...

Leading biblical scholars and religious experts discuss the implications of the Rapture, when prophe...

Two young North Korean gymnasts prepare for an unprecedented competition in this documentary that of...

A propaganda documentary on the post war reconstruction of Miensk, capital of Belarus.
Made by the highly influential Russian cameraman Roman Karmen, this documentary vividly features Alb...

North Korean propaganda film about orchards that yield bigger crops after Kim Il-sung visits. The fi...

Based on the book by Major Alexander de Seversky's about his theories of the practical uses of long ...

"A Postcard from Pyongyang" is a journey into a deeply enigmatic and completely isolated country tha...

Who is Kim Yo-jong? In a context of maximum tensions between North Korea and the United States, Pier...