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- Amateur Photographer - The story of a German soldier and the photographs that he took, while serving on the Eastern Front during WWII.
- Andre's Lives - The story of Andre Steiner, dubbed "the Jewish Schindler," who saved thousands of Slovak Jews during the Holocaust.
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- The Battle of Chernobyl - Previously secret archives and documents provide the basis for an unprecedented examination of the disaster and the efforts to contain it.
- Blockade - Made entirely from footage discovered in Russian archives, and featuring a meticulously reconstructed soundtrack, this film vividly re-creates the 900 day siege of Leningrad during World War II.
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- A Child's Century of War - Takes the viewer on a journey through the past century - the bloodiest in history - from the perspective of children, and tells their stories in their voices.
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- The Democratic Revolutionary Handbook - A how-to manual to the recent democratic (but definitely not spontaneous) revolutions in Georgia, Serbia, and the Ukraine.
- Diamonds in the Dark - From a traditional village bordering Ukraine, to the relatively sophisticated city of Bucharest, a portrait of how Romanian women lived under the old regime, and how they confront the new problems of the post-communist era.
- The Discreet Charm of Bucharest - A picture of Romania's capital, and the lives of six individuals who live there, through stories of the houses they live in.
- Do Communists Have Better Sex? - In divided Germany, studies showed that East Germans enjoyed their sexual lives more than their West German counterparts. What could account for the difference?
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- East of War - Former Wehrmacht soldiers talk about their experiences beyond the bounds of "normal" warfare on the Eastern Front of World War II.
- Eisenstein - A vivid portrait of the places and events which fostered Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein's genius.
- The Electronic Curtain - Examines the replacement of the former Iron Curtain by a new, highly sophisticated invisible electronic curtain designed to curb illegal immigration from eastern to western Europe.
- Epoca - How is history created? What does or does not enter our memory? By staging a variety of historical fragments, this meditative documentary challenges the idea of "authentic" history.
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- Farewell, GDR - The dilemma of former Mozambican refugees returning home from Germany.
- Fighter - Two old friends, Holocaust survivors, journey into their past, to retrace one's daring escape through Nazi-occupied Europe.
- Forever Lenin - Why, and how, was Lenin mummified in 1924? And how, and why, is he still on display in Red Square today?
- Forgiving Dr. Mengele - The remarkable story of Auschwitz survivor and former 'Mengele twin' Eva Mozes Kor and the transformation that led her to forgive the Nazi perpetrators as an act of self-healing.
- From The East - Chantal Akerman retraces a journey from the end of summer to deepest winter, from East Germany, across Poland and the Baltics, to Moscow. ** One of the 10 Best Films of the 1990s - J. Hoberman, Artforum
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- A Grin Without A Cat - Chris Marker's epic film-essay on the worldwide political wars of the 60's and 70's: Vietnam, Che, May '68, Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left.
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- The Hermitage Dwellers - This kaleidoscope of people and events in the great museum unfolds into a poignant account of Russia's painful 20th century transformed by the "dwellers" intimate relationship with the art.
- Hermitage-Niks - This five-part series is the expanded, in-depth version of THE HERMITAGE DWELLERS.
- Hiding and Seeking - Through this complex, personal story of the effects of the Holocaust on four generations, this film becomes a plea for tolerance for non-Jews.
- The Holocaust Experience - An exploration into how the memory of the Holocaust is kept alive via preserved concentration camp ruins in Poland and hyper-realistic holocaust museums in America.
- House of the World - Examines the Holocaust through the eyes of survivors and their descendants.
- How Putin Came to Power - A detailed investigation, with archives and exclusive interviews with the participants, into how Vladimir Putin rose from mayoral aide in St. Petersburg, to President of Russia, in only eight years.
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- Inheritance - After a gold mine floods a Hungarian river with tons of cyanide, fisherman Balazs Meszaro stands alone against a multinational corporation, exposing environmental and human consequences of globalization.
- The Internationale - Draws on people's stories of an emotionally charged radical song (the long-time anthem of socialism and communism) to celebrate the relationship between music and social change.
- Intervista - Albanian artist Anri Sala's moving reflection on his mother's history, and his country's.
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- Magnitogorsk - The fortunes of three generations living in the shadow of Russia's most breathtaking industrial project of the 1930s. The film was inspired by Joris Ivens' Song of the Heroes. (from the January, 1998 Catalog Supplement)
- Mother - The story of a Hungarian woman who fled with her six-year old son after the uprising in 1956 while her husband, accused of being a leading "counter-revolutionary," is executed by the new Communist government.
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- Perestroika from Below - An unprecedented visit with miners in Donetsk, Ukraine, after they called for the first mass strike in the USSR since the 1920s.
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- Tango of Slaves - A Holocaust survivor's journey to Warsaw becomes the springboard for a meditative essay about history, memory, and their preservation in imagery.
- The 3 Rooms of Melancholia - An award-winning, stunningly beautiful revelation of how the Chechen War has psychologically affected children in Russia and in Chechnya.
- The Two Lives of Eva - The complicated, traumatic story of a young woman, the filmmaker's mother, a well-off, Polish Lutheran before WWII, who afterwards married a Jewish Warsaw ghetto survivor.
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- War Photographer - Considered one of the bravest and most important war photographers of our time, James Nachtwey hardly fits the cliché of the hard-boiled war journalist. 2001 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature.
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- Yellow Wasps - Chronicles the Yellow Wasps, a Serbian paramilitary unit operating in Bosnia in 1992.
- Yugoslavia: Origins of a War - Provides a detailed background to the ethnic conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, using only archive and unpublished material.
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