In her public persona, Eleanor “Tussy” Marx was a translator, actress, a children’s rights activist and a persuasive labour organizer, a tireless powerhouse determined to carry on her father’s work. She held her own with twentieth century gods, including both her father and his colleague Engels. In her privately life, however, she was vulnerable and her attraction to the self-indulgent and self-important Edward Aveling led her into misery and ultimately proved fatal.

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Having suffered as a boy under a brutal Communist-era coach, champion Hungarian gymnast Miklos moves...

An innovative and charismatic influencer is suddenly exiled from her community of creative partners ...

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

Sanda spends all her time working in a plastic factory, raising her two small children and catering ...

A documentary that traces the life and times of Bhagat Singh, a committed Marxist who fought against...

In 1947, among the ruins of war and in anticipation of a catastrophic flood, the locals of a Vojvodi...

This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for w...

A staged cinematic parable, it presents in symbolic images a painful diagnosis of Poles' sense of id...

Javier Navarro, a Falangist, is ordered to infiltrate Republican Madrid to deliver a message to a me...

Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, an...

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

Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria...
In the spring of 1945 the war is still going on, but in Bulgaria the communists have already seized ...

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies ...

In Western Germany, two brothers and their organization help people escape to non-communist Germany....

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

Warsaw, Poland, 1953. Mr. T., a renowned writer, lives in a hotel and earns his living by giving pri...

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

A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice ...