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poster
87
8.4
/438352/
82
/6331/
80
/3939/
4.3
/179798/
92
/162/
96
/11154/
89
/39/
cc age 17+

The Lives of Others (2006)
In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.
poster
Kanopy
80
7.7
/12344/
74
/142/
71
/138/
3.9
/9466/
76
/25/
84
/103/

Mephisto (1981)
A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.
poster
76
7.0
/18045/
69
/356/
67
/257/
3.5
/5123/
91
/68/
75
/341/
81
/17/

Katyn (2007)
On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.
poster
74
7.8
/17085/
73
/211/
69
/193/
3.9
/8063/
81
/16/
93
/275/

Burnt by the Sun (1994)
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
7.0
/86210/
69
/2640/
68
/1570/
3.4
/70557/
75
/32/
71
/2109/
67
/8/
cc age 16+

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Imagine a world where absolute conformity rules, and word and thought, including loyalty to Big Brother is demanded. It's the year 1984 and such a world exists. Divided into three vast states, whose inhabitants are dominated by all powerful governments, an illegal love affair begins. Soon, worker drone Winston becomes the target of a brain-washing campaign to force him back to conformity.
poster
The Roku Channel
69
6.6
/173262/
68
/11533/
70
/3286/
3.6
/1556222/
64
/243/
89
/767/
54
/53/
cc age 14+

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12.
poster
Kanopy
71
65
7.5
/14650/
76
/843/
74
/454/
3.6
/12929/
70
/30/
83
/15/
53
/9/

Balloon (2018)
Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.
poster
77
58
7.4
/2537/
71
/110/
71
/58/
3.6
/1916/
100
/8/
78
/14/

Chuck Norris vs Communism (2015)
In late eighties, in Ceausescu's Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female translator brought the magic of Western films to the Romanian people and sowed the seeds of a revolution.
poster
Hulu
56
6.5
/372639/
64
/14410/
61
/6054/
3.0
/497909/
51
/155/
48
/3926/
52
/33/
cc age 17+

The Interview (2014)
Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapaport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
80
54
8.3
/1780/
75
/110/
77
/59/
4.2
/1732/

Nazi Concentration Camps (1945)
Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders, this film consists primarily of dead and surviving prisoners and of facilities used to kill and torture during the World War II.
poster
53
6.0
/12001/
64
/652/
61
/267/
3.2
/12763/
35
/23/
44
/206/
53
/24/
cc age 16+

The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
poster
Netflix
74
51
7.5
/3258/
72
/151/
74
/82/
3.7
/2423/
77
/6/

Hitler: A Career (1977)
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.
poster
74
50
7.5
/2929/
69
/37/
67
/62/
3.9
/3780/
83
/6/
76
/4/

My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985)
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
50
6.4
/79097/
66
/3296/
62
/1741/
2.9
/23053/
30
/84/
42
/444/
41
/25/
cc age 17+

Child 44 (2015)
Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.
poster
Kanopy
76
49
7.5
/1692/
68
/28/
77
/27/
3.7
/867/
89
/18/
67
/16/
87
/8/

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the National Archives of Romania.
poster
79
43
8.0
/730/
72
/17/
78
/16/
4.1
/1674/
86
/158/

Videograms of a Revolution (1992)
Videograms of a Revolution is a 1992 documentary film compiled by Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică from over 125 hours of amateur footage, news footage, and excerpts from the Bucharest TV studio overtaken by demonstrators as part of the December 1989 Romanian Revolution.
poster
75
40
8.0
/1185/
72
/43/
72
/30/
3.8
/1656/

The Architecture of Doom (1989)
Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, The Architecture of Doom captures the inner workings of the Third Reich and illuminates the Nazi aesthetic in art, architecture and popular culture. From Nazi party rallies to the final days inside Hitler's bunker, this sensational film shows how Adolf Hitler rose from being a failed artist to creating a world of ponderous kitsch and horrifying terror. Hitler worshipped ancient Rome and Greece, and dreamed of a new Golden Age of classical art and monumental architecture, populated by beautiful, patriotic Aryans. Degenerated artists and inferior races had no place in his lurid fantasy. As this riveting film shows, the Nazis went from banning the art of modernists like Picasso to forced euthanasia of the retarded and sick, and finally to the persecution of homosexuals and the extermination of the Jews.
poster
Kanopy
62
38
6.7
/952/
72
/55/
62
/20/
3.2
/897/
60
/10/
69
/33/
44
/4/

Kimjongilia (2009)
The first film to fully expose the humanitarian crisis of North Korea, this stylish, deeply moving documentary is centered around astonishing interviews with survivors of North Korea's vast and largely hidden prison camps, and interspersed with archival footage of North Korean propoganda films and original art performances.
poster
62
37
5.2
/972/
55
/15/
42
/11/
81
/31/
76
/1389/

The Adventurers (1970)
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren't quite as black and white as he'd assumed.
poster
Kanopy
64
37
5.8
/948/
56
/19/
53
/25/
3.5
/2478/
86
/7/
62
/5/

Kamikaze '89 (1982)
In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings and finds out more than he bargained for.
poster
75
36
7.6
/3677/
75
/38/
77
/34/
3.4
/560/
80
/5/

The Guide (2014)
American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s Soviet Ukraine.
poster
64
36
7.1
/3287/
62
/34/
58
/32/
3.4
/633/
70
/37/

The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006)
Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave. So with his friends from school he devises a plan to kill the dictator.
poster
The Roku Channel
58
29
5.8
/1312/
62
/94/
57
/24/
3.0
/423/
55
/46/

Genesis II (1973)
A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.
poster
50
28
5.4
/1364/
58
/37/
48
/40/
Popcorn
41
/84/

The Spy (2012)
Spring 1941. Center of Moscow. Duel of the two intelligence services turns more and more tense.
poster
71
26
7.7
/1045/
71
/20/
63
/29/
3.7
/605/

Tomorrow Was the War (1987)
This movie is based on a novel by Boris Vasiliev and describes life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The main characters of the film are ordinary Soviet high school students. They study in the Soviet school, try to be correct and ideological Komsomol activists. But not always the “correctness” suggested by the teachers coincides with the inner convictions of young souls - it is difficult for them to come to terms with the fact that their relatives and loved ones are suddenly “enemies of the people”.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
35
24
2.9
/2507/
51
/252/
37
/78/
2.1
/908/
16
/12/

The Perfect Weapon (2016)
In a not too distant future, a totalitarian state run by ‘The Director” controls all aspects of life. All enemies of the state are dealt in the harshest way. Most of them are executed by the secret government’s assassins. The best operative is code-named “Condor” – an elite agent and hit man for the government. However, in his latest assignment, “Condor” fails to kill an opposition leader, and finds himself on the run from the very same government agency that he works for. This sets in motion a chain of events with unforseen consequences for all involved.
poster
62
16
6.6
/586/
75
/11/
60
/28/
50
/2/

Shores of Hope (2012)
In this vivid historical drama set in 1980s East Germany, two dockworkers and best friends who dream of escaping the repressive regime are forced to choose their loyalties when the state police promise them safe passage out of the country — if they inform on their co-workers and union leader.
poster
43
12
4.2
/705/
47
/41/
41
/19/
2.8
/530/
35
/7/

Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000 (1994)
In the future, corporations have taken over the world and banned sex. A group of rebellious high school students devise a way to go back in time to the present day and try change history to prevent that from happening.
poster
Kanopy
51
11
4.4
/281/
53
/25/
45
/18/
3.1
/325/

Centrespread (1981)
In a world at the brink of the 21st century, where strict social stratification is rigidly enforced, and the only manifestation of violence is in magazine pages, a photographer whose special talent is mixing violence and sex, is told to find a new girl whose freshness will rejuvenate the pages of the magazine.
poster
?
8.9
/42/
80
/3/

Laboratory Greece (2019)
A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories. «If Democracy can be destroyed in Greece, it can be destroyed throughout Europe» Paul Craig Roberts
poster
?
4.2
/23/
5
/2/
10
/1/

The Sexterminators (1970)
In a future where procreation is policed by the government, one man throws caution to the wind and lives the way he wants to live. That man is Danny Stewart and he'll screw anyone who will let him. This is the story of that man.
poster
?
8.5
/79/
10
/1/
60
/3/

Ein Tag - Bericht aus einem deutschen Konzentrationslager 1939 (1965)
Germany, January 1939: a day in a concentration camp. Subjected to harsh military discipline the hungry prisoners are digging a huge hole and filling it up again. Several are tortured, die of exhaustion, in the electric fence, or are shot.
poster
?
6.7
/13/

Crowd (2013)
In the margins of the city, two lots sharing coincidences are placed in a dialogue. They were both locations for entertainment built by different dictatorships: The Sport City of La Boca was built during Ongania's de facto government, and the Interama amusement park opened near the end of the last military regime. Today both places are in ruins and their surroundings harbor settlements and shanty towns where thousands of families live, many of them migrants and in extreme poverty. Through a thorough investigation, Oesterheld becomes an explorer with a privileged eye who films the transit of those characters as they frequently pass through these places, and he depicts the present day over the tracks history left on the urban landscape. The result is a Buenos Aires City seen from its ends with perplexity, beauty, emotion and a neutral eye. The film combines densities with an analytical storytelling that is yet deeply atmospheric and transforming through the reality it manages to capture.
poster
?
7.1
/16/
80
/1/

The End of Era (2014)
Young doctor Irina Mikhaylovna works in Soviet province and has to hire ex-con Lyuba as baby tender for her daughter. When anti-Semitic company starts in Soviet Union and danger is threatening Irina, Lyuba stays her only devoted friend.
poster
65
?
7.4
/246/
62
/5/
60
/3/

Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution (2006)
Today Iranian cinema is one of the most highly regarded national cinemas in the world, regularly winning festival awards and critical acclaim for films which combine remarkable artistry and social relevance. Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution traces the development of this film industry, which has always been closely intertwined with the country's tumultuous political history, from the decades-long reign of Reza Shah Pahlevi and his son, the rise of Khomeini and the birth of the Islamic Republic, the seizure by militants of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, and the devastating war with Iraq.
poster
63
?
7.4
/122/
55
/4/
60
/1/

Trading Germans (2014)
A first hand account of one of the biggest cases of human trafficking during the Cold War. A story of greed, courage, hope and remorse.
poster
?
6.1
/36/
10
/1/
43
/3/

Adolf Hitler - Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer: Dokumente der Zeitgeschichte (1953)
The film begins with the First World War and ends in 1945. Without exception, recordings from this period were used, which came from weekly news reports from different countries. Previously unpublished scenes about the private life of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were also shown for the first time. The film was originally built into a frame story. The Off Commentary begins with the words: "This film [...] is a document of delusion that on the way to power tore an entire people and a whole world into disaster. This film portrays the suffering of a generation that only ended five to twelve. " The film premiered in Cologne on November 20, 1953, but was immediately banned by Federal Interior Minister Gerhard Schröder in agreement with the interior ministers of the federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany.
poster
64
?
7.3
/210/
50
/5/
71
/9/

Fox: Hunter (1993)
Set in the period prior to the revolt in Timisoara in December 1989 and mirroring the events that led to the downfall of the dictator Ceausescu.
poster
?
10
/1/

The Angkar (1981)
The Khmer word “angkar” signifies “organization”. The angkar of the Pol-Pot regime acted upon their own, unwritten laws. Records were discovered in the central interrogation and extermination camp “S21”, the former high school Tuol Sleng in Phnom Penh that document the death of 20.000 people.
poster
72
?
7.6
/179/
70
/1/
70
/3/
3.6
/329/

Slovo House (2017)
Chain-smoking artists, poets and playwrights were among the colourful array of intellectuals living in the ‘Slovo House’ in 1920s Ukraine. The communist paradise was built under Stalin's approval, but it quickly became a prison. The brutal Soviet regime spied on the inhabitants, destroying their eccentric way of life and sealing their fate. This fascinating film explores the extraordinary story of the building and its residents.
poster
65
?
8.1
/292/
55
/7/
61
/9/

The Third Reich In Color (1998)
This remarkable trove of color footage, assembled from far-flung private and state collections, presents Hitler's Europe as never seen before. Amateur film enthusiasts - soldiers, tourists, Hitler's own pilot, even Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun - began experimenting with color film in the late 1930s, their camera eye recording the Third Reich from every angle. Some of this film was only recently uncovered in former Soviet-bloc archives, hidden for almost 60 years; all of it, thanks to digital technology, has been newly transferred to video with surprising clarity. (This documentary was produced with two different narratives, both an English and German language version.)
poster
?
7.0
/46/
80
/2/
63
/3/

Innenansichten - Deutschland 1937 (2012)
N/A
poster
57
?
6.8
/134/
60
/2/
3.0
/501/

Animal Farm (2026)
A group of animals rebel against their owners and take power over the farm.
poster
Hoopla
65
?
6.1
/190/
67
/34/
67
/9/

How to Stage a Coup (2017)
A guide to human history through its most audacious power grabs. From Julius Caesar to Napoleon; from Mussolini to the strongmen of the present day - we see how the world we know has been shaped by those who dream big.
poster
68
?
7.2
/117/
70
/5/
64
/9/

Stalin, the Red Tyrant (2007)
On March 9, 1953, Joseph Stalin was buried in Moscow in front of a million people. His funeral is that of a demi-God. Ultimate paradox for one of the greatest criminals in History who brought misfortune to his people while arousing collective admiration.
poster
57
?
6.9
/103/
43
/3/
58
/3/

Requiem for Dominic (1990)
Requiem for Dominic powerfully portrayed the upheaval in that liminal space between revolution and order. This drama is captured partly on film, partly on video adding to the gritty reality of the time, place and events as they were unfolding in Eastern Europe as the "Iron Curtain" collapsed.
poster
?
4.3
/79/
40
/4/
37
/6/

East Meets West in Bed (1973)
A Russian official and his three female coworkers are mistaken for a pimp and his three prostitutes.
poster
?
6.9
/51/
47
/3/

Rahab (2012)
A slave, a spy, a city under siege and a choice to be made that will change their world forever.


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