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.

Four lucid grandmothers tell their story forgotten by history: the militancy and resistance of the y...

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

One Country, Two Systems? No Way! say the youth of Taiwan. But China under President Xi Jinping want...

The film's protagonists are the orphaned children taken into custody by the state and institutionali...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

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...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

A documentary about Caroll Spinney who has been Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since ...

The city of Ordos, in the middle of China, was build for a million people yet remains completely emp...

Alex Jones interviews Walter Burien, commodity trading adviser (CTA) of 15 years about the biggest g...

A sociopolitical historical documentary-thriller about the international decline of communism and th...

Jerry, an ordinary immigrant dad, retired in Orlando, is recruited to be an undercover agent for the...


This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected ...

Thousands of terracotta warriors guarded the first Chinese emperor's tomb. This is their story, told...