1. An Ordinary Country (Zwyczajny kraj)
The story of what daily life was like in Poland under communism: private conversations, cruel interrogations, recruitment attempts, recorded and filmed with hidden devices; of how the secret services spied on every activity of ordinary citizens: nothing escaped the brutal system of control developed by the Soviets in the name of freedom.
It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.
2. Children of the Revolution
Inspired by the student revolutions of 1968, two women in Germany and Japan set out to plot world revolution as leaders of the Baader Meinhof Group and the Japanese Red Army. What were they fighting for and what have we learned?
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
3. Rok stalinské epochy (Rok stalinské epochy)
(Rok stalinské epochy)
4. Who Is This Kusturica? (Кто такой этот Кустурица?)
Emir Kusturica views himself as a rock musician and believes that he became a world-famous filmmaker by pure chance, as he shoots his movies only in between concert tours with the “No Smoking Orchestra” band. At these little pinpoints of time he gets “Palms d’Or” at Cannes, “Golden Lions” in Venice, builds his own villages, a power plant and a piste and regrets not becoming a professional football player. Kusturica’s own living is very much similar to his movies, where shoes are polished with cats, death is treated like a story from tabloid press, and life is a miracle...
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
5. Carl Anton Postl aus Poppitz bei Znaim (Carl Anton Postl aus Poppitz bei Znaim)
Documentary about the Austrian-American writer Charles Sealsfield
6. Boo Hoo
A cemetery in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada is seen through the eyes of its former superintendent.
7. Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution (Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution)
(Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution)
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
8. 12/35 (12/35)
This film explores the lives of those men and the memories of those left behind: the childhoods they shared and the choices they made. These men, now in their 60s, reflect on what has happened to their generation, why most of their friends and relatives died so young and how this particular apartment block captures the story of a whole generation. The voices and lives of the departed are included in clips from amateur videos from the 1990s. Set against the background of old friends’ attempt to understand their deaths, this film is about nostalgia and how memories kindle a special kind of love for home.
9. Le 3615 ne répond plus (Le 3615 ne répond plus)
The adventure of the minitel, a small cubic terminal with a folding keyboard that began in the 1970s in the labs of France Telecom, is closely linked to Alsace. Alsatians had then in hand the future tools of interactive communication. What remains today of all those minitel years? Like a nocturnal and intimate road-movie, this documentary went to meet the last people who are still interested in the minitel, this strange beige box of access to telematic services, corny today, but pioneers at the end of the last century.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
10. Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century (Winston Churchill : Un géant dans le siècle)
A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of Europe: Winston Churchill , soldier, politician, writer, painter, leader of his country in the darkest hours, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a myth, a giant of the 20th century.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
11. Lenin and the Future (Ленин и будущее)
(Ленин и будущее)
12. I Have Lived Many Lives (Ich habe viele Leben gelebt)
A portrait of the leading female Bolshevik revolutionary leader Alexandra Kollontai using her own words.
13. Route 66 - ein amerikanischer albTraum (Route 66 - ein amerikanischer albTraum)
Germany's first Open Source movie. A gonzo style documentary.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
14. Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
In Hillary's America, bestselling author and influential filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza reveals the sordid truth about Hillary Clinton and the secret history of the Democratic Party. This important and controversial film releases at a critical time leading up to the 2016 Presidential campaign and challenges the state of American politics.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
15. Woman (Žemsko)
Between four walls of her apartment, a girl enjoys in intimate idleness and being her true self.
16. Tony Curtis on 'Some Like It Hot'
Leonard Maltin interviews Tony Curtis on his experience filming 'Some Like It Hot'.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
17. Moeder & Grunberg (Moeder & Grunberg)
(Moeder & Grunberg)
18. Atopy (Atopia)
After being for eleven years in the city, José António Baptista returned to his home village to focus on literature.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
19. Comrade, Where Are You Today? (Comrade, Where Are You Today?)
In 1988, 20-year-old Kirsi Marie Liimatainen travels from Finland to the GDR, to study Marxism-Leninism at the International Youth Academy. In summer of´89 the course ends and the students spread out over the world. Afew months later, the Berlin Wall falls. 24 years later Kirsi, sets out on a cinematic journey to Nicaragua, South Africa, Chile, Bolivia, Lebanon, Germany and Finland to meet up once more with her former fellow students. What remains of their dream of the liberation of the oppressed?
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
20. The Marvellous World of Roald Dahl
Fighter pilot, inventor, spy - the life of Roald Dahl is often stranger than fiction. Through a vast collection of his letters, writings and archive, the story is told largely in his own words with contributions from his last wife Liccy, daughter Lucy and biographer Donald Sturrock.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.