Communism Movies

The documentary AMERICAN REDS provides a historical overview of 20th century Communism and the growth, decline and contemporary relevance of the...

About the fate of a communist, who has come a long and difficult life from a simple worker to the director of the largest automobile plant. The...

Documentary about the merging of the Communist Party of Germany and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the Soviet occupation zone, a merger that...

Based on Michal Witkowski's bestseller, communism transforms into capitalism as seen from the perspective of 17-year-old Michaska, who enters the gay...

Short Croatian documentary from the former Yugoslavia by Ante Babaja that captures the different faces in a waiting room.

Set during the Greek civil war. A villager is forced to leave his house and property and go to Thessaloniki with his daughter and son. They find...

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...

Jin Song Rim strives to turn her humble mountain hometown of Pyokgye-ri into a model socialist village.

An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most...

Two little girls read the Communist Manifesto and ask their grandmother, an artist and political figure, questions like "What is a revolution? What...

September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and paint over the old frescoes, but each time the...

Ben Stewart, the bright young musician and philosopher who brought us the sleeper hit "Esoteric Agenda", unveils his new work, Kymatica!. Kymatica...

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...

On January 15, 1972, Leonid Pliouchtch, a Ukrainian mathematician who was unknown at the time, was locked up in a Soviet psychiatric institution and...

Warsaw, Poland, end of the Seventies. Following the workers’ revolt against the rise of prices violently repressed by the communist power, a...

Director Eugenia Gutu offers a feminist critique of gender (in)equality under socialism in this documentary portrait of an industrializing town and...

Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser's efforts to document and present the reality of Tibet were considered a "political problem" by the Chinese Party-state...