White Sun of the Desert, a popular 1970 Soviet film, tells the story of Fyodor Ivanovich Sukhov, a Red Army soldier who intends to return home to his beloved wife, but had to stay in the desert.
Man with a Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 film, part documentary and part cinematic art.
Reds is a 1981 historical drama film about the life and career of John Reed, the American journalist and writer who travels to the USSR.
This event, one of two from Third World Newsreel, are conceived as windows into the histories of indigenous people and windows that open onto the possibilities for the future.
This documentary film follows the feminist guerilla movement of Dhufar against the British-backed sultanate in Oman.
In Cuba, in 1961, thousands of teenage girls join the National Campaign for Literacy to help teach the people of their country to read and write.
The great Haitian and Caribbean writer, Jacque Stephan Alexis, returned to Haiti in 1961 after a long journey abroad. But at the orders of François Duvalier, he is kidnapped along with four of his companions, and has been missing ever since.
On the eve of the Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956, Israel declared Martial law in all the occupied Arab territories without any previous notice.
Sambizanga follows Maria as she walks from jail to jail in search of her incarcerated freedom-fighter husband, who is facing torture and execution by the Portuguese government for his role in the anti-colonial struggle.
ABC da Greve (ABC of Strike) is a 1989 Brazilian documentary film by Leon Hirszman, on the strikes of the ABC Region labor movement in the late 1970s. ABC stands for the three cities that surround São Paulo City, which composed the largest industrial park of South America. (Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo, São Caetano).
Released in 2016, documentary filmmaker Sung-Hyung Cho was the first South Korean director to receive an official permit to film in North Korea.
Join Code Pink and The People's Forum for a film screening and discussion of Cuba's Life Task, a documentary about Tarea Vida (Life Task), Cuba's unique plan for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
