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 love of Kim Jong Il, the former dictator of North Korea, for cinema and his adventures, includin...
Social democracy propaganda film about future dreams for Denmark in 1960. Although Denmark is free a...
During World War II, the propaganda engine of the U.S. government made a pivotal decision with unfor...

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

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

Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing a...

A student is held up in the library while a riot rages outside. As SDS protesters head to burn the l...

A collection of television celebrities pitch United States Savings bonds.

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

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

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A film about the experiences that Czechoslovak peasants gained on a study trip to the Soviet Union.

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

Tommy Robinson goes on the offensive by documenting how his own “hit piece” on his character was bei...
It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, ...

Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the...

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was ...

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