The story of what daily life was like in Poland under communism: private conversations, cruel interrogations, recruitment attempts, recorded and filmed with hidden devices; of how the secret services spied on every activity of ordinary citizens: nothing escaped the brutal system of control developed by the Soviets in the name of freedom.

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...

Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye su...

Polish film and music icon Kalina Jedrusik, a scandalous free-spirited sex symbol, fights for her in...

Documentary examining Stalin's Gulag. Between the October Revolution and Stalin's death in 1953, mil...

United by an uncompromising struggle as members of the infamous 1970s far-left terrorist group Prima...

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its m...

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save ...

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

Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his...

2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall ex...

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

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

The silence behind the genocide of the Rohingyas in Burma.

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

Petrograd, Soviet Union, 1920s. Boris Letush, devastated by a personal tragedy, feels the need to pu...

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