No one knows why for certain, but from 1968 to 1973 communist Albania enjoyed a brief liberalisation in the arts. Banned books and Beatles records changed hands. Albania’s Nobel-nominated novelist Ismail Kadare wrote two of his most famed masterpieces, Kështjella (The Castle) (1970) and Kronikë në gur (Chronicle in Stone) (1971) during this period. The rock'n'roll and jazz arrangements featured in this concert documentary were the pretext that brought about the end to the artistic thaw. Several performers seen in the festival were sent to prison or internal exile. The portly, smiling music conductor, Gasper Çurçia, was later accused of forging bus tickets and executed.
A film about the experiences that Czechoslovak peasants gained on a study trip to the Soviet Union.

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accura...

See how alt-right icon Steve Bannon’s years as a documentary filmmaker catapulted him to Breitbart N...

A student is held up in the library while a riot rages outside. As SDS protesters head to burn the l...
It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, ...

A Nazi propaganda film about the lead up to World War II and Germany's success on the Western Front....
Social democracy propaganda film about future dreams for Denmark in 1960. Although Denmark is free a...

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...

A collection of television celebrities pitch United States Savings bonds.

This remarkable documentary dedicates itself to an extraordinary chapter of the second World War – t...

North Korean propaganda film about orchards that yield bigger crops after Kim Il-sung visits. The fi...
A love affair with collectivist ideologies has lead to ever bigger government and the welfare-warfar...

There were two wars in Iraq--a military assault and a media war. The former was well-covered; the la...

Celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was som...

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

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...