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.

A research-based essay film, but also a very personal perspective on the history of socialist Yugosl...

Bosnian Croat writer Miljenko Jergović and Serbian writer Marko Vidojković replace one another by th...

A group of performing art troupe members each face their own trials and tribulations in Chengdu; fro...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Jesus Was a Commie presents modern society with questions and leads the audience on a dialectical jo...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

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

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

A film about the dramatic and extraordinary fate of the lonely man who confronted the meat grinder o...
A documentary film about the history and present of the struggle of the communist troops led by Mao ...

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...
Ruy Mauro Marini was a brazilian sociologist who developed the Marxist Dependancy Theory, to explain...

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...

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

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

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

Follows a soldier trying to gain recognition for comrades who died in 1948, at a turning point in th...