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The lives of some visitors and residents of Rome and the romances, adventures and predicaments they get into.

After a prison riot, former-Captain Nascimento, now a high ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups.

An All-American college star and his beauty queen wife watch their seemingly perfect life fall apart as their daughter joins the turmoil of '60s America.

A New Englander and his odd family run a hotel in Vienna, as unexpected events change their lives forever.

A wildly anarchic satire of urban guerrilla warfare in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.

Two sisters both fight for women's rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live.

Art critic Keller was once part of a far-left radical group. They contact him again 10 years later and ask him to assassinate a Chilean doctor and war criminal, who's visiting London, but Keller has lost his ideals and feels conflicted.

A group of anarchist leftist called "Nada" and led by the terrorist Buenaventura Diaz abducts American ambassador Richard Poindexter in a brothel in Paris and takes him to a farm in the countryside. The French Minister gives a blank cheque to violent Chief of Police Goemond, who is assigned to destroy the kidnappers. Then the Minister makes him the scapegoat of the messy situation to protect the State.

The film outlines Japanese students movements in the 60s, then shows the formation of the Japanese United Red Army, a communist armed resistance group.

Staszek lives in Bialystok and is a member of the Radical Youth Association, abbreviated as ZMR. He is not a radical himself, but belonging to nationalists gives him strength and a sense of purpose. Fulfilling the orders of the charismatic leader - Roman, Staszek and the rest of their buddies engage in patriotic activities and actions that are to give the organization due publicity. Unfortunately, most of them end in a fiasco and a total catastrophe ... During one of such actions, Staszek meets Pola, a young left-wing activist who recently broke up with her boyfriend - Kajetan. Staszek, enchanted with the girl, decides to hide his affiliation with ZMR from her. Soon, the couple in love will become Romeo and Juliet of two opposing camps: national and hipster-left, and the "forbidden love" of young heroes will lead to a series of surprising events, the finale of which will take place in Warsaw, during the celebration of the greatest Equality Parade in history.

It was a milestone of film as activism, cinema as movement in Japan's context. Adachi and Wakamatsu went to Beirut on the way back from the Cannes Film Festival. There, in collaboration with the Red Army members and PFLP, they produced this newsreel film depicting the everyday activities of Arab guerrillas as a cinematic narrative on the world revolution.

From the inner workings of the RAF. Former RAF-member Peter-Jürgen Boock reveal the many secrets and myths about the Baader-Meinhof gang a.k.a. RAF - Rote Armee Fraktion.

Wolfgang Grams, RAF terrorist, killed in a police shoot out in 1993 was thought to be part of the 1989 murder of high placed banker Alfred Herrhausen. This documentary interviews people close to Herrhausen and Grams showing what made them the people they became.

While the leader is in jail, his leftist group is controlled by his girlfriend, but her leadership lacks conviction and perspective. When the leader commits suicide in prison, despair and confusion rule the group and revenge and violence erupts in graphic way.

Jussi, a student admired by all women, is inadvertently selected to represent both left-wing and right-wing parties in the parliamentary elections. All Jussi cares about is the beautiful, blonde Irmeli.

West Germany, early 1960s. Star crossed lovers Bern and Gudrun begin a life long affair in the stifling atmosphere of provincial Germany. Setting out to challenge the establishment they become part of the global uprising joining forces with leftist writers and political activists. By the late 60s Gudrun has joined the gang lead by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof and Bern risks his sanity to finally writing a novel to change the world. An emotional true story of an explosive era starring August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds (2009), A Hidden Life (2019), Salt (2010)).

In 1980 West Germany, Frank Lehmann is drafted into the Bundeswehr. Frank moves in with hippie squatters in his natal Bremen. Just as in the army, his big mouth and naive honesty keep causing trouble.

This history of the co-op film movements of Sydney and Melbourne comes from two of the major figures in Australian documentary who were intimately involved in the filmmaking groundswell that first emerged in the 1960s. The Ubu group in Sydney, born from the influence of avant-garde filmmaking mingled with a rich range of social movements including unionism, feminism, Indigenous self-expression, and queer theory. A few names should give you a sense of the main participants here: Philip Noyce, Gillian Armstrong, Albie Thoms, Stephen Wallace, Martha Ansara, Essie Coffey, and many, many others. This is the story of the rise of alternative forms of filmmaking, and their fall at the hands of government agencies. It is a story of a road not taken, but of a moment full of possibility when fresh voices and new ways of seeing struggled to establish themselves in Australian cinema.

"Starbuck", the name of the navigator from the book Moby Dick, was also the undercover alias of Holger Meins (1941-1974), the navigator of the Baader-Meinhof group. A documentary about a young man who died at the age of 33 as a result of a hunger strike in prison.

How could the son of a graduate historian and a secretary, who liked to adorn himself with fast cars, fake eyelashes and expensive clothes, who wanted to become an artist, journalist or film director, become the "public enemy No. 1"?

In a story, with the back-drop of San Francisco's general labor strike of 1934 (depicted by newsreel footage), a Civil War veteran , Hank (Willard Mack), sets out to show his two oldest sons, Max (Ben Lyon) and George (Charles Sabin), the error of their ways when they take an interest in Communism propaganda. Willard Mack, who directed, wrote and starred in this film, died shortly after the film was finished.

In the autumn of 1977, RAF terrorists stopped the vehicle of the employer's president, Hanns Martin Schleyer, killed his three bodyguards, the driver and abducted the man, who was as an executive committee of Daimler-Benz and former Nazi student leader an enemy of the left. But who was Schleyer really?