Socialism Movies

Ilya Kabakov is considered one of the most important contemporary artists worldwide. Born and raised in the Ukraine in the period between Stalin and...

Sean McAllister's bleak, extraordinarily intimate film offers an insight into the lives of 35 year old Kevin, who hasn't worked in 18 years, and his...

This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war. Karl Liebknecht, left-wing revolutionary...

During the first days after the 1973 Chilean coup d’état, the political leadership of the Popular Unity government was arrested and...

A biopic of an influential Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher. Svetozar Markovic developed an activist anthropological...

A documentary film account of the Russian Revolution, based on archival footage.

A documentary that explores questions of secrecy and power in relation to the East German Secret Police (the 'Stasi') within East German society. The...

Kirill, a 19 year old boy whose father works as a construction director, wants to study filmmaking.

A Czech agricultural student, Šimon Plánička, arrives at the small South Bohemian town of Hoštice, and joins the local JZD...

There is a small frontier post. A soldier abiding by the rules of the system gradually turns into a murderer.

Jin Song Rim strives to turn her humble mountain hometown of Pyokgye-ri into a model socialist village.

Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the first Western European delegation officially...

A portrait of the leading female Bolshevik (and later Worker’s Opposition) revolutionary leader Alexandra Kollontai using her own words.

This program investigates the ways various art forms are used to sway minds and to argue political causes. Examples include Napoleon and Hitler;...

In 1987 GDR citizen Mario Röllig was arrested in Hungary for attempting to flee the GDR. Nowadays he gives talks about his experiences. This...

A leftist revolutionary or a reformist democrat? A committed Marxist or a constitutionalist politician? An ethical and moral man or, as Richard Nixon...

A re-enactment of the Jules Durand case. “In 1910 [leader of the French socialist movement Jean] Jaurès took the lead in defending a...

The Hungarian Oh, Bloody Life reflects on the heavy emotional toll taken by the repressive Stalin regime. Dorotya Udvaros plays a young actress from...