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.
It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, ...

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

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

A group of women climbs a summer mountain situated in South Korea. They are refugees who have settle...

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

Bob Woodruff’s daring 880-mile journey along the China-North Korea border examines the delicate rela...
Social democracy propaganda film about future dreams for Denmark in 1960. Although Denmark is free a...

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

A collection of television celebrities pitch United States Savings bonds.

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

In this sprawling 33-part epic, Dianetics therapy and the effects it has on human minds are explored...

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

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...

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

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

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