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.
The portrait of the former news editor of STV, who created a "positive image of Slovakia" during the...
It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, ...
Yugoslav Partisan propaganda film about the post-World War II events in Pula.
Nazi propaganda film about the Condor Legion, a unit of German "volunteers" who fought in the Spanis...
Nazi propaganda film contrasting Germany in the days before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor with the ...
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is simila...
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw...
Riddle of Rhodesia is an American documentary/short on Zimbabwe restored by La Cinémathèque français...
Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated ...
A journey through Kim Jong Un’s past and present to understand the man and the myth who holds North ...
This is a 25-minutes piece about the DPRK (North Korea), a country Vltchek visited and fell in love ...
Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the...
An educational film about power sources that’s rendered as a lyrical meditation on heat and vapor, T...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
Montage of documentary footage from the liberation and building of the republic as a tribute to JV S...
Documentary - A harrowing exploration of the rapid rise of American religious fanaticism after 9/11....
In 1962, a U.S. soldier sent to guard the peace in South Korea deserted his unit, walked across the ...
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...