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.

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

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

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

A collection of television celebrities pitch United States Savings bonds.

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

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

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accura...

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

Documentary - A harrowing exploration of the rapid rise of American religious fanaticism after 9/11....

A group of women climbs a summer mountain situated in South Korea. They are refugees who have settle...
Social democracy propaganda film about future dreams for Denmark in 1960. Although Denmark is free a...

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

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

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

A propaganda documentary on the post war reconstruction of Miensk, capital of Belarus.

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...

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