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1) Underground
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A tragicomedy about love, friendship, betrayal, manipulation and lies. The story starts from an underground manufacturer of weapons of Belgrade, during WWII. The black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans forgets to mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. They break out of their underground shelter years later only to convince themselves that they are still at war.
Publisher
Black Hat Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When Idaho legislator Curtis Bowers wrote a "letter to the editor" about the drastic changes in America's culture, it became the feature story on the evening news, people protested at the capitol, and for weeks the local newspapers were filled with responses. He realized then, he'd hit on something. Ask almost anyone and you'll hear, "Communism is dead! The Berlin Wall came down." Though the word communism isn't used anymore, this film will show the...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Based on the McCarthy witchhunts of the 1950's, Guilty by Suspicion tells the story of the destruction of the career of a director- all he has to do to revive his stalled career is testify against friends who are suspected of being Communists.
Publisher
City Lights Pictures
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Mauro is a 12-year-old boy, who is left to fend for himself when his parents 'go on vacation' during the Communist regime in 1970's Brazil. The culturally diverse community of São Paulo unites to watch Péle lead his country in winning the World Cup of soccer.
5) White sun
Publisher
Kimstim
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Nepali
Description
On the occasion of his father's funeral, Chandra returns to the village he left years earlier to join the Maoists, and finds himself revisiting frayed family relations and unspoken divisions among neighbors. Past traumas return and cause tensions to boil over.
7) Neruda
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
Sexuality/nudity and some language.
An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
Series
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
This collection of documentaries produced by A & E presents a broad overview of organized crime in America, beginning with immigrants who formed gangs soon after arriving in the late 19th century. The focus is on Italian-American gangsters, though there are mentions of Irish and Jewish gangs, which at various times cooperated with or competed against the Mafia, and one program in the collection presents skeins of conjecture while seeking to document...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Krypton's last son crash-lands in Cold War-era Russia instead of rural Kansas, an alternate reality unfolds in this DC Elseworlds adventure. Superman is spearheading a Communist campaign to advance the ideologies of the Soviet state. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, brilliant American scientist Lex Luthor devises a plan to rein in, and ultimately destroy, the alien Soviet threat. What follows is a gripping game of cat and mouse that will leave...
10) The teacher
Series
Film Movement volume year 15, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Slovak
Description
In 1983, students and parents at a suburban Bratislava middle school must decide whether to go against new teacher Miss Drazdechova, a high-ranking official of the Communist Party who is tying pupils' grades to how helpful their families can be with favors.
Not recommended for ages under 17 without parental permission.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Soviet film studios worked hard to portray their government's system as idyllic and forward-looking. This program showcases animated films designed to promote that utopian vision. Soviet Toys, the earliest known example of Soviet animation, condemns Lenin's New Economic Policy; The Victorious Destination celebrates the achievements of Stalin's first five-year plan; Samoyed Boy praises the Soviet educational system and the casting-off of antiquated...
Publisher
A2ZCDS.com
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
From back cover: Gives an insight into how American schoolchildren were taught the value of democracy, freedom and good citizenship through government sponsored films during the Cold War. In the 50's and 60's, Americans were facing the threat of unconventional weapons and the growing Communist threat. You will see films explaining how 1960's activism threatened American moral, religious and ethical principles. In the final clips, John Wayne, Edward...
Publisher
A2ZCDS.com
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
From back cover: Presents a compliation of various cartoons that use humor to tout the dangers of Communism and the benefits of capitalism. It contains Cold War era cartoons defending the profit motive against anti-capitalist critics and telling American workers that they are [the] luckiest people in the world. The main message of all the films is how you should be proud to be an American. Shot in the 1940's, workers are told that increased productivity...
Publisher
Jove Film Distribution
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Russian
Description
From the 1920s to the 1980s, the Soviet regime ordered the production of dozens of animated propaganda films. Their target audience was the Soviet Union itself, and their goal was to win the hearts and minds of the Soviet people. Commentary by leading Soviet film scholars.
Publisher
Agora Productions
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A moving tribute to peaceful revolution. The 80's introduction of 'Glasnost and Perestroika'. Student leaders in the late 80's sought to commemorate the death of a student protester against the Nazi occupation were granted permission by the communists to hold a rally on Nov. 17 1989. The students conspired to lead a march from their designated rally point into the symbolic center of Czech government, Wenceslas square. However, the government learned...
Series
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Uses archival photographs, sound recordings, and film footage to explore world events, sports, life-styles, and achievements during 1950-1959. Includes Harry Truman as the "give 'em hell" President; the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia; the Communist invasion of South Korea; the U.S. in the Korean War; Douglas MacArthur; Cuba's new dictator, Fidel Castro; bomb shelters as big business; Stalin replaced by Nikita Kruschev; Hungarian Freedom Fighters;...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Just as America envisioned Communist threats during much of the 20th century, the specter of capitalism loomed large in the Soviet Cold War psyche. This program surveys Soviet animated propaganda, embodying that fiercely anti-capitalist spirit. Foreshadowing the space race, Interplanetary Revolution depicts a Communist triumph over free-market forces on Mars; China in Flames warns against capitalist interference in the Chinese Revolution; Shareholder...
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