As the Communist Party of China celebrates its 100th anniversary, this documentary looks back at the party’s history, from the 1920’s, to the Civil War, the Great Leap Forward, the Great Famine, the Cultural Revolution and the reforms by Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. Did the Great Famine cost more than 15 million lives? How does the Cultural Revolution continue to shape Chinese politics today? What was capitalism like after Mao’s death? Through rare and never-before-seen historical footage, expert interviews and eyewitness accounts of the Great Famine, Tiananmen incident, and the Cultural Revolution, get to know how one party has so profoundly shaped China.
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...
Between 1947 and 1951, more than 80 000 Greek men, women and children were deported to the isle of M...
Filmed on the 60th anniversary of the republic, this dark-humor documentary delves on the highs and ...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war commun...
Scenes from holiday life at Lake Balaton in Hungary during the communism.
A Experimental Docu-Drama about the Red Army Faction's formation, and events leading up to their imp...
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...
Chinese-Australian artist Jiawei Shen's plans to create an epic work depicting his homeland's tumult...
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...
Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...
ŽIŽEK! trails the thinker as he crisscrosses the globe, racing from New York City lecture halls, thr...
Fabiana, Carlo, Claudio and Vincenzo… I met them in 1982 in Mercatale, their village in Tuscany, nea...
Bosnian Croat writer Miljenko Jergović and Serbian writer Marko Vidojković replace one another by th...
This documentary short film by Arthur Kent recounts the June 4, 1989 assault by the People's Liberat...
"A Home On The Range" tells the little-known story of Jews who fled the pogroms and hardships of Eas...
In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police in...
An account of the childhood and youth of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize for Lit...
Documentary about the merging of the Communist Party of Germany and the Socialist Unity Party of Ger...