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81
7.6
/2551/
77
/86/
74
/22/
3.8
/8168/
100
/25/
80
/11/

Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025)
As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia’s hinterlands are transformed into recruitment stages for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and violence, a brave teacher goes undercover to film what’s really happening in his own school.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
7.3
/2132/
70
/24/
67
/39/
3.7
/2995/
100
/11/
72
/19/

Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967)
After many adventures, a young female switchboard operator starts a love relationship with a serious young man. But while he's away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's passes.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.4
/5370/
73
/273/
71
/118/
3.7
/5598/
94
/32/
70
/14/
81
/14/

Under the Sun (2015)
Over the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il's birthday) celebration. While North Korean government wanted a propaganda film, the director kept on filming between the scripted scenes. The ritualized explosions of color and joy contrast sharply with pale everyday reality, which is not particularly terrible, but rather quite surreal.
poster
77
66
7.8
/2593/
80
/251/
73
/57/
3.9
/10245/

Waves (2024)
At the end of the 1960s, when the air is filled with rock-and-roll and student rebellions are changing the world, the older of two brothers joins a prestigious newsroom of the public radio broadcaster. Not long after, he finds himself in the middle of a dangerous conflict between journalists and the secret service.
poster
Kanopy
64
6.6
/1121/
67
/51/
69
/30/
3.3
/1310/
79
/76/
53
/11/
65
/23/

The Lovers and the Despot (2016)
Hong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following orders from dictator Kim Jong-il.
poster
Kanopy
67
41
6.8
/1168/
60
/24/
63
/42/
3.6
/2681/
80
/5/
61
/5/

Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas (1930)
An audiovisual symphony that delves into the industrial, agrarian, and cultural fabric of the Donbas region during the inaugural Soviet Five Year Plan. It spotlights anti-religious campaigns, propagandistic marches, and the vibrant athletic culture of its time
poster
64
34
7.0
/1580/
64
/24/
58
/32/
3.3
/1444/
65
/20/

Chapayev (1934)
An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
poster
Cultpix
50
31
5.3
/1509/
57
/55/
55
/53/
3.1
/4972/
28
/11/

Pulgasari (1985)
In feudal Korea, a group of starving villagers grow weary of the orders handed down to them by their controlling king and set out to use a deadly monster under their control to push his armies back.
poster
60
30
5.6
/1705/
60
/129/
63
/88/
2.9
/1100/
64
/1/

The Battle at Lake Changjin II: Water Gate Bridge (2022)
Commander Wu Qianli leads the 7th Infantry Company soldiers to Funchilin Pass where they are tasked to destroy a bridge to stop enemy troops from retreating.
poster
69
28
7.1
/654/
64
/14/
66
/27/
3.8
/1249/

A Sixth Part of the World (1926)
Through the travelogue format, it depicts the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and details the entirety of the wealth of the Soviet land. Focusing on cultural and economic diversity, the film is in fact a call for unification in order to build a "complete socialist society".
poster
WOW Presents Plus
76
28
7.9
/1098/
77
/17/
80
/27/
3.5
/512/

Propaganda (2013)
An anti-western propaganda film about the influences of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world, as told from a North Korean perspective.
poster
55
20
5.7
/387/
50
/10/
53
/25/
3.2
/962/

Soviet Toys (1924)
The first animated movie made in the Soviet Union, it portrays a bloated caricature of a Capitalist devouring a massive heap of food and drink.
poster
66
19
7.0
/409/
64
/9/
59
/22/
3.6
/751/

The Eleventh Year (1928)
The film is dedicated to the achievements of the Ukrainian SSR for the eleventh anniversary of the October Revolution.
poster
Kanopy
64
12
6.5
/272/
61
/6/
61
/15/
3.5
/362/

Stride, Soviet! (1926)
Commissioned by the Moscow Soviet as a documentary and information film for the citizens of Moscow prior to municipal elections, film is a tableau of Soviet life and achievements in the period of reconstruction following the Civil War of 1917-1921.
poster
61
7
6.3
/173/
70
/8/
47
/10/
3.2
/274/

Black and White (1932)
The film addresses issues of racism in the Jim Crow American South. Themes of racial injustice, racial violence, working-class solidarity dominate the film. It depicts black men working in a field, walking in chains, sitting behind bars, and being executed in an electric chair. In most scenes, a white authority figure is seen whipping or guarding the men.
poster
?
80
/1/

Memento Mori (2025)
Author Otto Dean braves his fears of impending death as he sets out to write a novel opposing the controlling presence of heartless artwork & propaganda in an alternate 1980s America after being recognized for his opinion piece in the newspaper. Upon visiting a local art hot spot and speaking with a woman named Lorelei, he learns of recent murders in the area & encounters an uncanny resemblance between his own recurring dreams and a local artist's work, leading him down a further rabbit hole as he tries to catch hold of the elusive artist Inez Sabalenka.
poster
?
6.5
/80/
60
/1/
22
/4/

Keith Allen Will Burn in Hell (2007)
Keith Allen visits Westboro Baptist Church to confront them about their extreme religious beliefs.
poster
?
90
/2/

Les Cartoons bannis (2022)
N/A
poster
?
100
/1/

Un Pic pour Lénine (1991)
N/A
poster
Hoopla
65
?
7.4
/72/
62
/4/
60
/12/

China: The Uighur Tragedy (2022)
A relentless chronicle of the tragedy of the Uighurs, an ethnic minority of some eleven million people who live in the Xinjiang region of northwest China, speak a Turkic language and practice the Muslim religion. The Uighurs suffer brutal cultural and political oppression by Xin Jinping's tyrannical government: torture, disappearances, forced labor, re-education of children and adults, mass sterilizations, extensive surveillance and destruction of historical heritage.
poster
?
10
/1/
20
/2/

Alas for the One through Whom the Umbrage Comes (1950)
Propaganda document of the communist regime about the so-called Číhošť miracle.
poster
?
10
/1/

Der Schwarze Kanal oder Armes Deutschland (1992)
Documentary about the life and career of Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, presenter and creator of the infamous GDR propaganda programme 'Der Schwarze Kanal' ('The Black Channel').
poster
55
?
6.7
/92/
30
/4/
3.5
/298/

The History of the Civil War (1921)
The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wrangel front and the Kronstadt rebellion. Chaos and violence, devastation and death.
poster
?
6.7
/19/
70
/2/
67
/7/

A Very Animated War (2021)
From 1945 to 1989, after the capitulation of Nazi Germany, two rival ideologies, communism and capitalism, faced each other in a merciless battle. On one side of the Iron Curtain and on the other, throughout the Cold War, the USSR and the United States sought to shape children’s imaginations through their magazines and films. Never in the history of mankind have so many comic books been published and so many cartoons produced for young people. In November 1989, communism collapsed with the Berlin Wall; capitalism was left to decide the future of the world. What if this victory had been prepared for a long time, and our thinking conditioned, from our early childhood, to ensure this absolute triumph?
poster
?
10
/1/

In the 11th Festival of Song (1971)
No one knows why for certain, but from 1968 to 1973 communist Albania enjoyed a brief liberalisation in the arts. Banned books and Beatles records changed hands. Albania’s Nobel-nominated novelist Ismail Kadare wrote two of his most famed masterpieces, Kështjella (The Castle) (1970) and Kronikë në gur (Chronicle in Stone) (1971) during this period. The rock'n'roll and jazz arrangements featured in this concert documentary were the pretext that brought about the end to the artistic thaw. Several performers seen in the festival were sent to prison or internal exile. The portly, smiling music conductor, Gasper Çurçia, was later accused of forging bus tickets and executed.
poster
?
10
/1/

Congratulations, Comrade Student! (1956)
The story of Viktor Stratoberdha (1921-1991) mirrors many of Albania’s tragedies. Stradoberdha’s humorous, buoyant style led him to be one of the country’s most promising filmmakers. But after being denounced in 1956, he was expelled from the Kinostudio and sent into internal exile. In 1967, Stratoberdha directed a local theater play in which the economic five year plan was placed in a coffin. He was then jailed for the next two decades. Urime Shokë Studentë! is one of the surviving documentaries of Viktor Stratoberdha’s all too short career.
poster
?
10
/1/

Triedny nepriateľ (1952)
N/A
poster
?
6.7
/9/
77
/3/

Le Parti du cinéma (2021)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

Náš vzor (1950)
A film about the experiences that Czechoslovak peasants gained on a study trip to the Soviet Union.
poster
?
10
/1/

Julius Fučík (1953)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

Za život radostný (1951)
N/A
poster
?
6.3
/21/
60
/1/
40
/1/

Their Kingdom (1928)
The documentary Their Kingdom, co-directed in 1928 by Nutsa Gogoberidze and Mikhail Kalatozishvili (Kalatozov) for Soviet Georgia’s Cinema Trust, was considered lost until 2008, when there appeared a possibility that this important film – Georgia’s first documentary feature and Kalatozov’s directorial debut – had not disappeared irretrievably.
poster
?
4.3
/7/
10
/1/
47
/3/

Girls in My Hometown (1991)
Girls in my Hometown, released in 1991, is a melodrama dealing with individualism and sacrifice. A young girl has a friend who has just come back from abroad, bringing with her foreign fashions and foreign ideas. When the solider to whom the friend was engaged becomes blinded in an accident, she decides to put herself first, neglecting her duties to her fiancé and the community she lives in.
poster
67
?
5.7
/134/
69
/29/
76
/9/

Chernobyl 30 Years On: Nuclear Heritage (2015)
Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes and consequences are examined. In addition, a report on efforts to strengthen the structures covering the core of the nuclear plant in order to better protect the population and the environment is offered.
poster
?
8.6
/40/
70
/1/
80
/2/

The Happy Couple (1975)
A comedy about life during the 1970's. A father refuses to accept his son marrying a girl from a different religion, thus leading to several comical situations.
poster
24
?
1.8
/3922/
18
/7/
35
/9/

Amazing China (2018)
Amazing China is a documentary film edited and produced based on the six-episode documentary series "Brilliant China" broadcasted on China Central Television (CCTV). The film is a joint production of China Central Television and China Film Co., Ltd. It premiered on March 2, 2018, in major cinemas across the People's Republic of China. The documentary highlights the achievements of the Communist Party of China (CPC) led by General Secretary Xi Jinping since the 18th National Congress of the CPC in 2012.
poster
68
?
6.8
/199/
70
/1/
67
/9/
3.5
/420/

Anniversary of the Revolution (1918)
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the final triumph.
poster
?
6.8
/75/
80
/2/
68
/4/

冰血长津湖 (2011)
N/A
poster
63
?
7.6
/108/
61
/5/
55
/7/

The Big Race (1981)
Set in 1952, the story follows events around the "Peace Run", a propaganda 3-day marathon for peace. The winner is to be presented with a new motorcycle by the country's president. Chief organizer is a ruthless manipulator who will stop at nothing to make sure that the right man wins. There are two runners, Budny and Stolar, who are participating in the race for different reasons.
poster
?
7.3
/8/

Stalin: Man of Steel (2003)
Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head of the Soviet Union. With a captivating blend of period documents, newly-released information, newsreel and archival footage and interviews with experts, the program examines his rise to power, deconstructs the cult of personality that helped him maintain an iron grip over his vast empire, and analyzes the policies he introduced, including the deadly expansion of the notorious gulags where he banished so many of his countrymen to certain death.
poster
?
8.1
/23/
70
/3/

Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe (2019)
Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.
poster
?
4.8
/32/
10
/1/

Soldier of Victory (1953)
Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs.
poster
?
4.9
/28/
70
/1/
57
/3/

Napoleon Gas (1925)
A squadron of American warplanes, armed with gas developed by Corsican chemist Gannimer (dubbed "Napoleon Gas") flies to Leningrad. American workers inform soviet comrades about the impending catastrophe. But the air attack on the city has already begun, and the assault troops of the enemy capture one suburb of the city after the other. The Red Army is organizing the defense and reflects the attack of the enemy with gas-armed drones
poster
?
5.2
/33/
30
/2/

It’s Not Always Cloudy (1950)
A film about life in the Czech borderlands after the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans.
poster
?
4.8
/28/
43
/3/
40
/1/

Reportáž psaná na oprátce (1962)
Screen adaptation of Julius Fucik's story about communist fighters.
poster
?

Atentát na kulturu (1977)
N/A
poster
?

Albania (1945)
Made by the highly influential Russian cameraman Roman Karmen, this documentary vividly features Albanian life immediately after the communists came to power in 1944. The film is especially memorable since it’s missing much of the heavy socialist realism that marked Albanian doc making. Shortly after he completed the film, Karmen set off for Berlin to shoot the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.
poster
?

Pravda dějin (1949)
N/A


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