Mikhail Gorbachev

30 de ani de democrație

Mihai Voinea, Cristian Delcea

Madeleine Albright, Ilie Alexandru

Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the last 30 years since the fall of communism. The end product is a documentary containing footage of political events and historical milestones significant to Romania accompanied by a narrator's voice walking the viewer through the events, and also interviews with Romanian politicians and other influential public figures sharing their thoughts and their different views on those events.

Lasciateci Fare Vol. 1

Ruggero Arenella

Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher

A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our governments and our lives.

Kinder, Kader, Kommandeure

Wolfgang Kissel

Johannes R. Becher, Wolf Biermann

A realistic satire about the path of the German Democratic Republic from its foundation until its 40th birthday. This eye-opening film tells the history of the German Democratic Republic through East Germany's official newsreels and state films.

The Battle of Chernobyl

Tom Jennings, Thomas Johnson

Tim Birkett, Mikhail Gorbachev

On April 26, 1986, a 1,000 feet high flame rises into the sky of the Ukraine. The fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant just exploded. A battle begins in which 500,000 men are engaged throughout the Soviet Union to "liquidate" the radioactivity, build the "sarcophagus" of the damaged reactor and save the world from a second explosion that would have destroyed half of Europe. Become a reference film, this documentary combines testimonials and unseen footage, tells for the first time the Battle of Chernobyl.

The Way I See It

Dawn Porter

Pete Souza, Barack Obama

Former Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza's journey as a person with top secret clearance and total access to the President.

Tiananmen

Ian MacMillan, Audrey Maurion

Corey Johnson, Howard Zhang

The true story of the seven weeks that changed China forever. On June 4, 1989, pro-democracy demonstrations were violently and bloodily repressed. Thousands of people died, but the basis for China's future was definitely planted.

Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

Ania Szczepańska

Corinna Waldbauer, Stanisław Ciosek

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.

Les Bourreaux de Staline : Katyn, 1940

Cédric Tourbe

Cédric Tourbe, Dmitry Tokarev

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the secrets and details of which have only recently been partially revealed.

Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende

Eric Friedler

Lothar de Maizière, Mikhail Gorbachev

Era Of Dance

Viktors Buda

Indulis Bilzens, DJ Westbam

The film tells a story about the latest musical revolution in recent history – the early days of the rave scene and the golden age of techno culture. International political changes in the mid-80s and early 90s, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, in a short period of time allowed this cultural phenomenon to become a mass movement which was almost completely independent from the global corporations and which did not fight with the system but created its own system.

L'Homme qui a défié Pékin

Pierre Haski

Perry Link, Hao Jian

A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), a dissident, a woodpecker who tirelessly pecked the putrid brain of the Communist regime for decades, demanding democracy loudly and fearlessly. Silenced, arrested, convicted, imprisoned, dead. Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2010, alive forever. These are his last words.

Nous resterons sur Terre

Pierre Barougier, Olivier Bourgeois

Mikhail Gorbachev, James Lovelock

Urban sprawl, extinct species, depletion of natural resources and global warming are all causes of deep anxiety. Here to stay takes an uncompromising look at Planet Earth today, in all its beauty but also its scars and contradictions. Illustrating the intricate relationship and contrasts between the miracles of nature and man's obsession in trying to tame them. Can we turn back the tide? What do we really want for ourselves?

Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes

James Jones

Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev

The story of Chernobyl told through a newly discovered hoard of dramatic footage filmed at the nuclear plant during the disaster and deeply personal interviews of those who were there, directed by Emmy Award-winner and Russian-speaker James Jones.

Reagan

Adriana Bosch

David Ogden Stiers, James Baker III

In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presidents of the twentieth century -- and one of the most controversial. A failed actor, Reagan became a passionate ideologue who preached a simple gospel of lower taxes, less government, and anti-communism.

Zero Days

Alex Gibney

Joanne Tucker, Yossi Melman

Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently commissioned by the US and Israeli governments, this malware was designed to specifically sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme. However, the complex computer worm ended up not only infecting its intended target but also spreading uncontrollably.

Disaster at Chernobyl

Renny Bartlett

David Morrissey, Igor Slavinskiy

The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination of human error and imperfect technology. An account of the sixty critical minutes prior to the explosion of the nuclear power plant on the night of April 26, 1986.