Keyword: communism

The Vietnam War

9.4

2017

TV

HD

A comprehensive history of the United States' involvement in the bitterly divisive armed conflict in Southeast Asia.

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

8.5

2022

TV

HD

What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy.

The Informant

8

2022

TV

HD

In Communist Hungary in 1985, Geri is eager to start his first year of college. But his plans are interrupted when the State Security blackmails him into spying on Zsolt Száva, a radical pro-democracy leader.

Persons of Interest

8.4

2014

TV

HD

In each episode a person of interest is given their previously secret intelligence file and attempts to answer the allegations contained in it.

Sight

7.4

2023

Movie

HD

When a blind orphan arrives in his waiting room seeking a miracle, a world-renowned eye surgeon must confront his past - and draw on the resilience he gained growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution - to try to restore her sight.

The Way Back

6.7

2010

Movie

HD

Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India.

Repo! The Genetic Opera

7.1

2008

Movie

HD

A worldwide epidemic encourages a biotech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however.

La Chinoise

7

1967

Movie

HD

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

Secretly, Greatly

7.3

2013

Movie

HD

Three elite North Korean sleeper agents live undercover for so long that they believe their cover stories are their real identities. Theyre shocked when they are ordered to kill one another or face death at the hands of an elite hit team.

Miss Marx

5.4

2020

Movie

HD

Bright, intelligent, passionate and free, Eleanor is Karl Marxs youngest daughter. Among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism, she takes part in the workers battles and fights for womens rights and the abolition of child labor. In 1883 she meets Edward Aveling and her life is crushed by a passionate but tragic love story.

An Ordinary Country

5.5

2020

Movie

HD

Controlled conversations, recording with hidden cameras, dirty records of interrogations and recruitment attempts as well as video tutorials for the officers of the security service - all of these materials are employed to portray the monitored life in Poland under communism. Sometimes grotesque, this picture is underpinned by horror, escalating intuitively with every minute. The dramatic culmination is when the Big Brother is not just watching but violating the intimacy of an ordinary citizen. Before us, there is a terrifying communist panopticon which keeps spying on and recording itself.

1987: When the Day Comes

7.8

2017

Movie

HD

In 1987 Korea under an oppressive military regime, the unlawful interrogation and death of a college student ignite ordinary citizens to fight for the truth and bring about justice.

Anniversary of the Revolution

6.8

1918

Movie

HD

The history of the October revolution told in images, starting from the uprising of 25 February up to the first anniversary of the revolution. The uprisings, the civil wars and the soviet life and leaders are shown in panoramic images.

Trumbo

7.7

2015

Movie

HD

In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywoods top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs.

The Witness

8.7

1969

Movie

HD

Banned for over a decade for its outspoken criticism of the post-WWII communist regime in Hungary, Péter Bacsós The Witness has since then achieved unparalleled cult status in its native land. Known as the best satire about communism, The Witness has become a cult classic, which was also well received by critics and general audiences alike when it was finally released outside of Hungary. Its candid and realistic portrayal of the incompetent communist regime has earned great acclaim for both the director and the film itself when it was shown at Cannes Film Festival in 1981. The Witness takes place during the height of the Rákosi Era, which was closely modeled after the ruthless and brutal Stalin regime. The film follows the life of an ordinary dike keeper, József Pelikán, who has been caught for illegally slaughtering his pig, Dezsõ. Instead of doing hard time for his \heinous\ crime, Pelikán is elevated into an important position, generally reserved for the communist elite. Of course, Pelikán is utterly clueless about his newfound luck, not to mention his new job. Even his new benefactor, the mysterious Comrade Virág, is reluctant to reveal the real reason behind Pelikáns preferential treatment. Thus, begins Pelikáns hilarious adventure deep within the \sophisticated\ communist society. One failure after another the incompetent Pelikán is elevated higher and higher on the communist echelon, all the while remaining completely clueless about his promotions. Until one day, when he gets called for to return the \favour\ by falsely testifying against his long-time friend in a mock-up show trial.

Hands Up!

6.5

1981

Movie

HD

Five young men reunite on a freight train ten years after completing their medical studies. They reminisce about their shared past, when Poland was ruled by implacable Stalinism.