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.

Tommy Robinson goes on the offensive by documenting how his own “hit piece” on his character was bei...

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...

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...
It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, ...

They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the...

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

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

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

Two young North Korean gymnasts prepare for an unprecedented competition in this documentary that of...
The story of Istituto Luce and it's newsreels, full of visual records of the social and political hi...

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...
Made by the highly influential Russian cameraman Roman Karmen, this documentary vividly features Alb...
A love affair with collectivist ideologies has lead to ever bigger government and the welfare-warfar...

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

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

Celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was som...