Stasi: A State Against Its People

Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party

2020

The History of the Civil War

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wra

1921

An Ordinary Country

The story of what daily life was like in Poland under communism: private conversations, cruel interrogations, recruitment attempts, recorded and filme

2020

Final Warning

Host Grant Jeffrey discusses how technology and government activities are changing the way our information is handled. How is this shaping our lives?

1995

Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution

The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating light in the anniversary year 2008. The film is a

2008

Ring of the Nibelungs

In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried after two malevolent kings murder his father. But a

2004

Eastern Cross

15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film

1991

I Have Lived Many Lives

A portrait of the leading female Bolshevik (and later Worker’s Opposition) revolutionary leader Alexandra Kollontai using her own words.

1983

Schutzwall

The 5th anniversary of the inner-German wall to West Germany and West Berlin is on the agenda. The necessity of erecting the border is illustrated by

1965

Crazy Race 2 - Warum die Mauer wirklich fiel

In 1989, Jenny Ecker, an 18-year-old daughter of an entrepreneur, flees from Hildesheim to the east - out of love. The teenager has fallen hopelessly

2004

Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie

Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, liv

2007

The Wall

A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the Pots

1990

Alfred

Short biographical documentary about the life of Alfred Florstedt and his life as a progressive communist from the Weimar Republic to his death in 198

1986

Tower

Four siblings, whose father disappeared during Brazilian Military Dictatorship, report their childhood during the regime.

2017

History is Marching

History is Marching is a feature length documentary analysing the rise in tensions between major powers across the globe over the course of 2018. The

2018

Coded Bias

Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurat

2020

Georges Marchais, l’homme qui avait choisi son camp

Both a political narrative and a psychological reflection, this documentary explores the personal journey of a quarry worker’s son from Calvados who r

2022

Sugar Sand

End of the 1970s in East Germany: Fred and Jonas are close friends. The 10-year-olds live near at the German-German frontier. After the mother from Jo

2017

On Rubik's Road

Rubiks’ Road is a bicycle path built in the 1980s and named after Alfreds Rubiks, leader of the Latvian Communist party at the time. One of the most f

2010

Cuba and the Cameraman

This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades.

2017