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Man of Iron (Czlowiek z zelaza)
1981, Poland, Andrzej Wajda Fictionalized documentary capture’s rise of Poland’s Solidarity movement. Viewers interested in the human stories that make up history will be intrigued by this portrait of...
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Interogation (Przesłuchanie)
1982, Poland, Ryszard Bugajski Based on a true story reflecting the Stalinist terror of the early 1950s, Ryszard Bugajski’s harrowing film was banned under martial law in Poland and only became...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1988, UK, Philip Kaufman Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Tomas, the happily irresponsible Czech lover of Milan Kundera’s novel, which is set in Prague just before and during the Soviet invasion in 1968. Lena...
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Closely Watched Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky)
1966, Czechoslovakia, Jiří Menzel Milos Hrma, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice at a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the...
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The Singing Revolution
2006, Estonia / USA, James Tusty (Documentary) The Singing Revolution traces the history of Estonia and the Baltic region from its very roots between 5,000 to 8,000 years ago through to the Singing...
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Zelary
2003, Czech Republic / Slovakia / Austria, Ondrej Trojan Two very different people meet and fall in love in “Zelary,” the Oscar-nominated (Best Foreign Language Film, 2003) romantic epic from director...
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The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas
1995, USA, Saul Landau The film does a good job of explaining in unsensationalized terms what the Zapatistas are about, and how U.S. corporations, NAFTA, and the WTO are directly responsible for the...
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Paradise Now
2005, Belgium, Hany Abu-Assad The story places two close friends, Palestinians Said and Khaled, recruited by an extremist group to perpetrate a terrorist attack in Tel-Aviv, blowing up themselves....
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Ashoka
2001, India, Santosh Sivan Prince Ashoka, heir to the Magadha Kingdom, bowing to his mother’s demand forsakes his princely status and goes to live in the wild for awhile. There he meets and falls in...
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The Lives of Others
2006, Germany, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Winner of the 2006 Academy Award for Best Foreign films Jamyang Kyi on The Lives of Others Before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, East Germany’s...
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