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 dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
More than two decades after it left our screens, BBC Two’s iconic and much-loved music documentary s...

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

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

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

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

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

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class R...

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

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...
A documentary film about the history and present of the struggle of the communist troops led by Mao ...

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

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

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

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

Short biographical documentary about the life of Alfred Florstedt and his life as a progressive comm...

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

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of...