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Adam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.

The world managed to testify the execution of Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife on Christmas day after a turmoil of events. At the same time, some viewers doubted the veracity of such actual killings. This short film challenges the notion of reality while adding some fiction to those events.

Canadian author and poet Margaret Atwood discusses her life and work.

The film explores the image of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu using unknown official footage from the Romanian National Television and National Film Archives.

In-depth documentary presenting the rise, rule and fall of communist Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and the way he shaped both Romanian and international history.

This documentary uses news footage and amateur video to paint a vivid picture of Romania's 1989 revolution and the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

Documentary examining the many forms of execution that take place in the world today.

The lavish party thrown by the Shah of Iran in 1971, which marked the break between the so-called 'king of kings' and the people of Iran he reigned over.

The story about the national personality cult of the Romanian dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu.

Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the last 30 years since the fall of communism. The end product is a documentary containing footage of political events and historical milestones significant to Romania accompanied by a narrator's voice walking the viewer through the events, and also interviews with Romanian politicians and other influential public figures sharing their thoughts and their different views on those events.

Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad, and Roman live near the northern border of Austria in 1995. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The quintet meets and gets close to one another, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.

A first hand account of one of the biggest cases of human trafficking during the Cold War. A story of greed, courage, hope and remorse.

A film documenting the exorbitant 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire, held in October 1971, organized by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and attended by leaders from around the world.

30 years after, an odyssey through the labyrinth of the 1989 Romanian Revolution memory and through the puzzle of events and coincidences demanding to be solved.

An inspiring documentary about adoption and the power of love. What can someone accomplish when given their chance in life.

The story of the events that led up to the revolt against, overthrow and eventual execution of murderous longtime Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu.

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