Xu Xin’s film “Dao Lu” (China 2012) offers an exclusive “in camera” encounter with Zheng Yan, an 83 year-old veteran of the Chinese Red Army, who calmly relates how he has navigated his country’s turbulent history over three-quarters of a century.Born to a wealthy family in a foreign concession, Yan joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1941 because he sincerely believed in the socialist project, and in its immediate capacity to free China from the Japanese yoke and eradicate deep-rooted corruption.
As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn do...
China marks the beginning of the extensive Asian theme in Ottinger’s filmography and is her first tr...
The absorbingly cinematic Ascension explores the pursuit of the “Chinese Dream.” Driven by mesmerizi...
Poland, 1970. When popular protests erupt in the streets due to rising prices, the communist governm...
China is the only civilization that continues to hold sway throughout its entire territory as define...
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edw...
Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through C...
Jesus Was a Commie presents modern society with questions and leads the audience on a dialectical jo...
Ben Stewart, the bright young musician and philosopher who brought us the sleeper hit "Esoteric Agen...
How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...
Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory started as an investigation of the link between politics and ...
The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating ...
A documentary about Caroll Spinney who has been Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since ...
A research-based essay film, but also a very personal perspective on the history of socialist Yugosl...
It's war. War against an invisible enemy that is not as deadly as we are told. The world is changing...
Paul Robeson was a celebrated African-American Actor, Athlete, Singer, Writer, and Civil Rights Acti...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
In China more people are on death row than the rest of the world combined. The children of the convi...
The documentary film of the brief window of artistic freedom and democracy movement 1978 - 1982 foll...