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.
It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, ...

A harrowing exploration of the rapid rise of American religious fanaticism after 9/11. This film exp...
Compilation short film about the Communist Revolution and Soviet Union.

An educational film about power sources that’s rendered as a lyrical meditation on heat and vapor, T...

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

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

A collection of television celebrities pitch United States Savings bonds.

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

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accura...
The story of Istituto Luce and it's newsreels, full of visual records of the social and political hi...
Made by the highly influential Russian cameraman Roman Karmen, this documentary vividly features Alb...

No one knows why for certain, but from 1968 to 1973 communist Albania enjoyed a brief liberalisation...

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

In Maija Blåfield’s documentary, eight former North Koreans talk about what it was like to watch ill...

A Nazi propaganda film about the lead up to World War II and Germany's success on the Western Front....