Nøkkelord Communism

Historien om den amerikanske forskeren J. Robert Oppenheimer og hans rolle i utviklingen av atombomben.

Han var arvtageren til det tusenårige riket. Han var født til å herske i tråd med urgamle tradisjoner, men ingen forberedte ham på en verden i forandring. Tre år gammel bestiger Pu Yi Dragetronen for å bli keiser over flere hundre millioner kinesere. Hans liv begynner som et eventyr i “Den forbudte by” med tusenvis av tjenere, prakt og overflod, og gjenklangen av ritualer lyder i byens isolat. Han bevitner og deltar i forandringenes voldsomme stormer som blåser over Kina på 1900-tallet. Han er marionettkeiser og fange hos japanerne under den andre verdenskrigen. Han utsettes for Mao Tse Tungs maktovertagelse og kulturrevolusjonens voldsomheter, for til slutt å ende opp som gartner i en av Pekings parker.

Landstrykeren stempler inn og skjeller ut inne i en fabrikk der innretninger som en personalmatemaskin kanskje en dag vil kunne redusere lunsjpausen til kun 15 minutter. Kastet ut i de arbeidsløses rekker, slår han seg sammen med en omstreifer (Paulette Goddard) for å jakte på lykken og en fast inntekt. Han finner ulykken som nattevakt på rulleskøyter, syngende kelner hvis hysteriske sang er uforståelig, fengselsfugl og mye mer. Til slutt, når Landstrykeren og omstreiferen går arm i arm mot en usikker fremtid, vet vi at de verken har funnet lykken eller en fast inntekt, men noe mye mer verdifullt; hverandre.

Noen år før det sosialistiske regimet i Øst-Tyskland rakner, er det fryktede Stasi i stand til å overvåke og etterforske hvem som helst for hva som helst. En effektiv Stasi-offiser får for første gang sympati for dem han skal avlytte. Men kan han utgjøre en forskjell?

Natten den 2. Mars 1953 er en mann døden nær. Et forferdelig hjerneslag. Han sikler. Han tisser på seg selv. Han er i ferd med å trekke sitt siste pust, og hvis du spiller kortene dine riktig er jobben hans din. Mannen er Joseph Stalin - diktator, tyrann, slakter, samt Sovjetunionens leder. The Death of Stalin er en satire om dagene før begravelsen til nasjonens far. Dager som kaster et hånlig lys over all galskapen, fordervelsen og det inhumane som følger med et totalitært styre. Dager som fikk menneskene rundt ham til å sloss for å arve hans suverene makt. Og alt er basert på virkelige hendelser.

After breaking off her engagement on her wedding day and going directly to a prostitution house, a young model becomes the city's most famous harlot, known as "Hilda Hurricane", in the 50's Brazil. She could do fine if it wasn't for Malthus, a young novice said to be a saint, for whom she falls in love. However, the boy is kept under the strict, severe doctrine of Father Nelson, a conservative priest intolerant even to every minor sin. Things start getting harder when Roberto, Malthus' old friend and a communist reporter (the actual author of the story), tries to interview Hilda and disclosure the real reasons behind her radical change of mind. In the meantime, the middle-classes are terrified by the "leftist threat" in Brazilian politics.

Set in the Japanese occupation era, the rich yet naive young master Ming Tai is trained to become an agent, and is later sent to become an underground spy for the Communists. Together with his brother and double agent Ming Lou, they try and bring down Wang Wei's Kuomintang Secret Service Headquarters.

In an alternate world, the Cold War has continued to persist for 140 years. As a result, the world was divided into two factions: the West Block, and the East Block. As the Cold War drags on, the tension between the two factions, as well as the amount of nuclear weapons they have, rise. Mylene Hoffman is a female cyborg who is a spy for the West Block. Together with three other agents, Mylene partakes in various missions issued by her superiors.

An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Featuring testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.

A seemingly sheltered family living behind the Berlin Wall in East Germany begins to crumble, in a climate of fear, mistrust, and shocking secrets.9

1950s. Under the communist regime, a struggling actor joins the KGB as an informant to make ends meet. He quickly finds himself caught up in a dangerous web of deceit and treachery.

Behind the Iron Curtain, Geri leaves for college, looks forward to meeting girls and partying and joins a group of radicals led by the charismatic Száva. But Geri has a secret. He’s an informant of the totalitarian state and to save his brother, he’s been forced to spy on his new friends for State Security.

The life of German thinker Karl Marx, focusing on his political and economic theories, his romance with Jenny von Westphalen, and his friendship with Friedrich Engels.

The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955. It was co-written by Bob Ellis who focused on three characters "Chifley, the unlettered man of great dignity; Menzies, who used to stand for something but eventually stood only for Menzies; and Evatt, the grand idealist... It's almost like Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. It's a chunk of national history during Australia's great era of change after the war."

Three years in the making, this comprehensive study of the Soviet dictator blends documentary footage and interviews with experts and surviving witnesses.

Juana Doña, a communist woman; Carmen Polo, dictator Franco's wife; and Eva Duarte, President Perón's wife, the first lady of Argentina, the idolized Evita, crisscross their lives during Evita's official visit to Spain, an autarchic country isolated from the world, in June 1947. Behind the pomp of reception there is a pharaonic preparation, hidden businesses, battles in the Caudillo's court and the possibility of saving a human life.

Louis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking Phantom India the most personal film of his career. And this extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discovery, as well as occasional outrage, intrigue, and joy.

Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of millions of men and women were affected by this political system, one of the most unjust and bloodiest in history. Using newly discovered propaganda films and archival photos, these four episodes explore the mysteries of this totalitarian political machine that lured its share of important followers into the fold. Known as the red church, communism seduced its ardent followers like some earthly religion.

Recounts the tumultuous history of Cuba, a nation of foreign conquest, freedom fighters and Cold War political machinations.

What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.

During the times of the Second World War in Royal Romania, a street smart kid accidentally becomes part of an organization which will eventually decide the future of his country.

An account of the Eastern Front, epic in scale and savagery, as Soviets experienced it and Stalin commanded it.