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.

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....
Compilation short film about the Communist Revolution and Soviet Union.

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...

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

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...
Made by the highly influential Russian cameraman Roman Karmen, this documentary vividly features Alb...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. M...
The story of Istituto Luce and it's newsreels, full of visual records of the social and political hi...

Defilada was made on the occasion of the 40th anniversary celebrations of state's founding in North ...

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

Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such i...