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Series
Publisher
The Criterion collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (513 min.) : sound, black & white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
Works from a group of directors that used film to speak out about the hypocrisy and absurdity of the Communist state.
Pearls of the deep: These five eccentric tales take the viewer on a journey from a motorcycle race to a rain-soaked wedding party to an unexpected cross-cultural romance.
Daisies: Two teenage girls decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
As a compassionate American Ambassador to the strife-torn Southeast Asian nation of Sarkhan, Brando tries to keep Communists in the North from overrunning the weakened democracy in the South by making sure a vital road into the country's inaccessible interior goes through.
3) White sun
Publisher
Kimstim
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Nepali
Description
On the occasion of his father's funeral, Chandra returns to the village he left years earlier to join the Maoists, and finds himself revisiting frayed family relations and unspoken divisions among neighbors. Past traumas return and cause tensions to boil over.
Publisher
Christian History Institute
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Fullscreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (30 min. + 80 min. extras) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Communist war-torn Romania, Pastor Richard Wurmbrand chooses to speak up for Christ, placing his own life and the lives of his family in great danger. His choice lands him in a communist prison, where his faith is put to the ultimate test.
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (430 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in + pamphlet.
Language
Russian
Description
From the 1920s to the 1980s, the Soviet regime ordered the production of dozens of animated propaganda films. Their target audience was the Soviet Union itself, and their goal was to win the hearts and minds of the Soviet people. Commentary by leading Soviet film scholars.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In the winter of 1945, Primo Levi, one of the century's great writers, was liberated from the Auschwitz concentration camp. With the war still underway, he embarked on a thousand-mile journey to his home in Turin, Italy--a strange, beguiling odyssey memorialized in his book, The Reawakening. Sixty years later, director Davide Ferrario set out to follow in Levi's footsteps. Retracing his historic trip, the film weaves a path through a modern Europe...
7) I am Cuba
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Ultimate edición.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 352 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (1 volume : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
Español
Description
Four vignettes in Batista's Cuba dramatize the need for revolution; long mobile shots tell almost wordless stories.
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fredric March stars in this story of a Czechoslovakian circus troop whose members are drafted into the military when the communists take over. But as they near the Bavarian border, they decide to make a break to escape to the West.
9) Neruda
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
10) Another country
Publisher
Goldcrest Films International
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Twentieth anniversary special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rueful, romantic tale of the awfulness of life in an ancient English public school in the 1930's. At its center is the friendship of Guy Bennett (Rupert Everett), a dark, Byronically handsome young man, who accepts the horrors of the school system in return for its rewards, and Tommy Judd (Colin Firth), who attends the school against his will, refuses to play the gentleman's game, and is already a Marxist. Guy falls in love with a handsome fellow...
11) La chinoise
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Paris, 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume and Véronique, form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studying the growth of communism in China, the students decide they must use terrorism and violence to ignite their own revolution.
12) Happiness
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
[Standard format].
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (64, 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Happiness: Banned by Stalin, this satirical comedy used Russian folklore to bring humor to the Revolution. It tells the tale of a hapless mercenary loser, his wife Anna, his well-fed neighbor Foka, and also of a priest, a nun and other old relics.
The last Bolshevik: Examines the life and work of Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin and gives a picture of life in the Soviet Union. Discusses the relation between art and politics in the Soviet...
13) Underground
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (327 min.) + 1 Blu-ray (170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
A tragicomedy about love, friendship, betrayal, manipulation and lies. The story starts from an underground manufacturer of weapons of Belgrade, during WWII. The black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans forgets to mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. They break out of their underground shelter years later only to convince themselves that they are still at war.
15) Daniel
Publisher
Legend Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After his parents work with the Communist Party and execution for selling secrets to the Soviets, a young man involves himself in the protests of the 60's, and lives with his belief that his parents were wrongly murdered.
Series
Publisher
Twilight Time
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm).
Language
English
Description
During the Cold War, a scientific team refits a Japanese submarine and hires an ex-Navy officer to find a secret Chinese atomic island base and prevent a Communist plot against America that could trigger WW3.
17) The teacher
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Slovak
Description
In 1983, students and parents at a suburban Bratislava middle school must decide whether to go against new teacher Miss Drazdechova, a high-ranking official of the Communist Party who is tying pupils' grades to how helpful their families can be with favors.
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