Socialism Movies

Miklós Fenyö's parents returned to Communist Hungary in the mid sixties - when everyone else was fleeing to the West. Miki's old friends...

A biopic of an influential Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher. Svetozar Markovic developed an activist anthropological...

A feature length, lively - montage style - documentary, capturing the essence of what life was like in socialist Hungary - dubbed the "The most...

A deep drama about life in Hungary after the WW2 until the revolt against Russians in '56. The main character is the head of the black market in...

Shot in 1983–84 and focusing on the work of the Historical Institute, this film witnesses how Nicaraguans are recovering their history, the...

A female worker in Socialist Hungary gains the acceptance of her male colleagues.

An interview with the president of Chile conducted by Roberto Rossellini in 1971, but broadcast only after his death.

Thomas Sankara, former president of Burkina Faso, was known as "the African Che", and became famous in Africa due to his innovative ideas, his...

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

Two guys facing problems in relationships and wondering about the living on the capitalist society.

The history of Camp Kinderland, founded in the 1920s to provide Jewish children an escape from the hot New York City summers.

In 1988, the East Berlin homicide squad again and again encounters crimes that - according to the opinion of party leadership and state security - do...

There is a small frontier post. A soldier abiding by the rules of the system gradually turns into a murderer.

Set against the backdrop of the 1909 general strike, Hjördis is employed as a housemaid in a wealthy Stockholm family.

It's 1980. Malin is fatherless, angry, and in trouble. At 20, he's spent a year in jail for assaulting a lover of Lily, his mother. In her desk he...

Sean McAllister's bleak, extraordinarily intimate film offers an insight into the lives of 35 year old Kevin, who hasn't worked in 18 years, and his...

During the first days after the 1973 Chilean coup d’état, the political leadership of the Popular Unity government was arrested and...

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.

The Hungarian Oh, Bloody Life reflects on the heavy emotional toll taken by the repressive Stalin regime. Dorotya Udvaros plays a young actress from...

In 1987 GDR citizen Mario Röllig was arrested in Hungary for attempting to flee the GDR. Nowadays he gives talks about his experiences. This...