Persons of Interest

Red Chapters

November 2024 •English

Spycraft

November 2024 •English

The spy game is a serious business, and throughout history, the tools and technologies developed for it have mattered as much as the spies themselves.

Mémoires d'ex

November 2024 •French

The Struggles for Poland

November 2024 •English

This 9-episodes documentary series extensively examines the history of Poland in the 20th Century, telling the story through archival films, newsreels, interviews, and readings from novels and poems.

Abeceda komunistických zločinů

November 2024 •Czech

The Cuba Libre Story

November 2024 •German

Recounts the tumultuous history of Cuba, a nation of foreign conquest, freedom fighters and Cold War political machinations.

Counter-Intelligence

November 2024 •English

A five-part documentary series that examines in-depth the influence of espionage agencies on governments and societies, both domestically and abroad.

Spying on the Royals

November 2024 •English

This 2-part documentary series reveals the truth about King Edward VIII's affair with American divorcée Wallis Simpson, and the espionage operation that accompanied the investigation.

Stalin

November 2024 •English

Three years in the making, this comprehensive study of the Soviet dictator blends documentary footage and interviews with experts and surviving witnesses.

Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

November 2024 •French

Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of millions of men and women were affected by this political system, one of the most unjust and bloodiest in history. Using newly discovered propaganda films and archival photos, these four episodes explore the mysteries of this totalitarian political machine that lured its share of important followers into the fold. Known as the red church, communism seduced its ardent followers like some earthly religion.

Phantom India

November 2024 •French

Louis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking Phantom India the most personal film of his career. And this extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discovery, as well as occasional outrage, intrigue, and joy.

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

November 2024 •English

What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.

The Vietnam War

November 2024 •English

An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Featuring testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.

Dvojí život jedné strany

November 2024 •Czech

The Beach

November 2024 •English

Filmmaker Warwick Thornton's international success has come at a personal cost. He has reached a crossroad in his life and something has to change. He has chosen to try giving up life in the fast lane for a while, to go it alone, on an isolated beach in one of the most beautiful yet brutal environments in the world, to see if he can transform and heal his life.

The Lost World of Communism

November 2024 •English

The Lost World of Communism is a three-part British documentary series which examines the legacy of Communism twenty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall. Produced by Peter Molloy and Lucy Hetherington, the series takes a retrospective look at life behind the Iron Curtain between 1945 and 1989, focusing on three countries in the Eastern Bloc - East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania. Through film and television footage and the personal recollections of those who lived in these countries, the series offers a glimpse of what daily life was like during the years of Communist rule. The Lost World of Communism debuted on BBC Two on Saturday 14 March 2009 at 9:00pm. There is also a book which accompanies the series.

Russia's War: Blood Upon the Snow

November 2024 •English

Russia’s War provides an important and in-depth account of the nation’s history throughout the period of Joseph Stalin's rule (1924-53). Told in ten parts, this astonishing documentary reveals eyewitness accounts, archival photography, documents and footage, and gives a remarkable insight into what let to the death of sixty-five million Soviets during Stalin’s reign of terror.

The Wire

November 2024 •English

Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

Burn Notice

November 2024 •English

A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.

Butterfly Shadow

November 2024 •Chinese

In November 1937, Shanghai fell into the hands of the Japanese army led by Wei Da Hong and Lin Qiu Yan. The underground party organization moved to underground work. In 1941, the Japanese army launched a top-secret "Popular Beauty Plan" in Shanghai, with the intention of using "counterfeit banknotes" to disrupt China's financial market and taking the opportunity to plunder China's precious cultural relics. The party's action group, headed by Wei Da Hong and Lin Qiu Yan, secretly acted, and on the way, met Tang Twenty-three, a fat man, a skinny monkey, and other young people