100 Years (2021)

The chronic shortage of housing in Central Havana has pushed the city upwards, where life spills out onto the rooftops. Resilient and remarkable, these rooftop dwellers have a privileged point of view on a society in the process of major transformation.

Este documental describe los cuatro años en el poder de Thomas Sankara, presidente de Burkina Faso de 1983 a 1987. Este sorprendente jefe de estado, apodado el “Che africano”, se hizo famoso en toda África por sus ideas innovadoras, su franqueza y sentido del humor, su energía y su altruismo. Con una pistola en una mano y las obras de Marx en la otra, Sankara se convirtió en presidente con 34 años. Zarandeó los cimientos de un país conocido por su nombre colonial francés, Alto Volta, renombrado como Burkina Faso, que significa “Tierra de hombres íntegros”. Esta película muestra el impacto que este hombre y su política tuvieron en Burkina Faso y en África en general.

Soviet animation from Vladimir Tarasov.

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?

Hungary, 1950s. József Pelikán, who works as a dam keeper on the Danube, meets by chance Zoltán Dániel, an old friend whom he saved from death years before and who is now a powerful politician.

It's 1980. Malin is fatherless, angry, and in trouble. At 20, he's spent a year in jail for assaulting a lover of Lily, his mother. In her desk he finds a soldier's photograph and assumes he's found his father. He confronts the man, now a teacher, and gets nowhere. At home again, he mocks his mother. Finally, she tells him her grim story, from the year before his birth. We see a people's court, where Lily's parents seek justice for their grandchild to be. We follow Lily to a prison camp, to the city where she's told to inform on the only person who's been kind, to an asylum, and finally to her current poverty and loneliness. How will Malin respond to these revelations?

A Juan, un joven encarcelado por terrorismo en una prisión de Lima, le conceden la amnistía. Mientras regresa a su casa, recuerda algunos acontecimientos cuando él tenía 10 años y vivía con su madre en el pueblo, rodeado de guerrilleros comunistas en las colinas.

"Gramsci, los años de cárcel" es un riguroso drama biográfico que realiza un recorrido por el complejo devenir personal e ideológico de este líder y teórico político italiano. El filme se detiene concretamente en los años que Gramsci estuvo recluido en prisión a causa de su praxis política y en la intensa actividad teórica que desarrolló hasta su muerte en abril de 1937.

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?

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at the man, at the roots of his philosophy, at the causes and explanations of his philosophical development, and at its most direct outcome: the failed Soviet Union.

History is Marching is a feature length documentary analysing the rise in tensions between major powers across the globe over the course of 2018. The film follows western history from 1945 to the present day, before looking at how capitalist society is today breaking down into the largest crisis in its history. Socialism or extinction?

Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander Španac and a former Royal Army officer Radekić. Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new, Communist, ideology and so the main plot axis is the conflict between them. At the 1990 Pula Film Festival, the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović). The film was also shown at the 1991 Moscow International Film Festival, where both Branislav Lečić and Mustafa Nadarević won the Silver St. George Award for their performances.

Born in Austria in 1903, Jacob Rosenfeld was imprisoned in Dachau. He manages to flee and takes refuge in Shanghai, like 30,000 other people. He exercised his profession there and sought to get involved in 1941 alongside the revolutionaries of the Chinese Communist Party. Rosenfeld becomes a surgeon on the war front between China and Japan. Thanks to his talents as a doctor and an organizer, he soon became close to Mao Tsé-Toung. In 1945, he was appointed general, responsible for the health of the armies and the entire liberated area. He is now called General Luo. Later, he became the Minister of Health of the first communist government. Thanks to his journal found in 2001, this documentary traces its extraordinary destiny.

Vladímir Ilich Uliánov, más conocido como Lenin, es recordado como el instigador de la Revolución de Octubre de 1917 y, por lo tanto, como uno de los hombres que cambió la forma del mundo en ese momento y para siempre, pero tal vez los hechos reales ocurrieron de una manera diferente a la que se narra en los libros de historia…

A joint fight of Macedonian and Greek people against the fascist monarchical government of Greece ended with their defeat in 1949, after many years of bloodshed. Many members of the democratic party DAG, as well as the innocent inhabitants experienced the destiny of political exile.

Pre-Cultural Revolution propaganda at its most lavish, this model opera depicts the history and evolution of the Communist Party of China under Mao Zedong from its founding in July 1921 to the establishment of "New China" in 1949. Detailed in the musical are several key events in CPC history such as the Northern Expedition, the KMT-led Shanghai massacre of 1927, the Nanchang Uprising and formation of the People's Liberation Army, the Long March and the founding of the PRC on October 1, 1949.

Documental sobre Juan José Sebreli, un intelectual argentino caracterizado por haber ido contra la corriente durante toda su vida. El film muestra cómo, fiel a su estilo, Sebreli escribe un ensayo especialmente conflictivo para sus conciudadanos en el que desmitifica a cuatro de sus íconos más queridos: Gardel, Evita, el Che y Maradona. El libro gana el Premio Casa de América. Sebreli viaja a Madrid para recibirlo mientras que, simultáneamente, el gobierno nacional elige los mismos cuatro íconos como tema de representación para la Feria del libro de Frankfurt. A partir de allí se desata una polémica pública.

2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of German philosopher and Communist icon Karl Marx. Even in the 21st century, Marx remains relevant. Who was the man who changed and divided the world with his theses?

On June 5, 1989, one day after Chinese troops expelled thousands of demonstrators from Tiananmen Square in Beijing, a solitary, unarmed protester stood his ground before a column of tanks advancing down the Avenue of Eternal Peace. Captured by Western photographers watching nearby, this extraordinary confrontation became an icon of the fight for freedom around the world. FRONTLINE investigates the mystery of the tank man — his identity, his fate, and his significance for the Chinese leadership.