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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Explores filmmaker Rithy Panh's quest to create the "missing images" of the period when the Khmer Rouge ruled over Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The film recounts his firsthand experience of his family and friends' suffering during the communist regime. For most of the time, the only visual material available on this regime was propaganda films depicting an idealized world of workers happily contributing to the new country Kampuchea's collective...
2) Neruda
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
Publisher
Lofty Sky Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The story behind Miss World contestant Anastasia Lin using her beauty and brass to stand up against an oppressive juggernaut the Chinese communist government. Drama, danger and fear follow Anastasia as she becomes the darling of the human rights community, traveling the globe to bring the world's attention to an increasing list of China's atrocities: the persecution of prisoners of conscience and live forced organ harvesting. An unlikely candidate...
4) Child 44
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1953 Soviet Russia, secret police agent Leo Demidov loses status, power, and home when he refuses to denounce his own wife, Raisa, as a traitor. Exiled from Moscow to a grim provincial outpost, Leo and Raisa join forces with General Mikhail Nesterov to track down a serial killer who preys on young boys. Their quest for justice threatens a system-wide cover-up by Leo's psychopathic rival Vasili, who insists there is no crime in paradise.
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Be inspired by love and forgiveness that conquered Communist prisons. Pastor Richard Wurmbrand suffered 14 years of imprisonment and brutal torture, while his wife, Sabina, was treated as a slave in a labor camp. Their only "crimes" were their faith and witness for Jesus Christ. Through it all, they loved their enemies and sought to win their torturers for Christ. Filmed entirely on location in Romania, including in the very prison where Richard...
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