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.

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...

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

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

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...
The story of Viktor Stratoberdha (1921-1991) mirrors many of Albania’s tragedies. Stradoberdha’s hum...
A love affair with collectivist ideologies has lead to ever bigger government and the welfare-warfar...

A shocking political exposé, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling f...

There were two wars in Iraq--a military assault and a media war. The former was well-covered; the la...

The assassination of Kim Jong-nam occurred on 13 February 2017 when two women attacked him with VX n...

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...

Tommy Robinson goes on the offensive by documenting how his own “hit piece” on his character was bei...
The story of Istituto Luce and it's newsreels, full of visual records of the social and political hi...

In 1962, a U.S. soldier sent to guard the peace in South Korea deserted his unit, walked across the ...

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...