Nicolae Ceaușescu

Tovarășu': facerea, gloria și desfacerea unui dictator (2023)

Here is the story of the entire life of Nicolae Ceaușescu, a peasant's son who managed to become the most powerful man in Romania. Including original archival footage and historical re-enactments, the story is told by those who lived it, those who knew hi ...

Phoenix. Har/Jar (2023)

Documentary on the Romanian rock band Phoenix. ...

The Certainty of Probabilities (2021)

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the young hippies of Hamburg are harshly criticized by Romanian students, while Nicolae Ceaușescu reads the famous defiance speech against the intervention of t ...

Uppercase Print (2020)

In 1981, chalk slogans written in uppercase letters started appearing in public spaces in the Romanian city of BotoÅŸani. They demanded freedom, alluded to the democratic developments taking place in Romania's socialist sister countries or simply called fo ...

30 Years of Democracy (2019)

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 ...

Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power (2019)

The views and thoughts of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood have never been more relevant than today. Readers turn to her work for answers as they confront the rise of authoritarian leaders, deal with increasingly intrusive technologies, and discuss climate ...

De Gaulle, the Last King of France (2017)

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France's current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general's personality through ...

HyperNormalisation (2016)

We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to the post-truth world. ...

Chuck Norris vs Communism (2015)

In late eighties, in Ceausescu's Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female translator brought the magic of Western films to the Romanian people and sowed the seeds of a revolution. ...

Trading Germans (2014)

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. ...

Anatomy of a Departure (2012)

A family who emigrated to Germany, escaping from Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship in Romania, recalls a world without opportunities or hope for the future, of ever-present fear and a constant struggle for survival. They look back on what made them exchange ...

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)

The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the National Archives of Romania. ...

The Last Days of the Ceaușescus (2010)

The images of the condemnation and execution of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena on Christmas Day in 1989 are etched deeply in the collective unconscious of several generations of television viewers. Exactly 20 years after its occurrence, the ...

Death Scenes 3 (1993)

Death Scenes 3 is a documentary film and presents a collection of archive photos from the LAPD's files, showcasing a range of early twentieth-century crime photos, including suicides, murders, fire-related deaths, and gangland-style murders. ...

Videograms of a Revolution (1992)

A minute-by-minute chronology of the Romanian revolution in December 1989 in Bucharest. This cinematic montage of live footage from the state television company TVR and video taken by numerous amateurs becomes a new media-based form of historiography. ...

Ceausescu: Behind the Myth (1991)

Veteran journalist and author Edward Behr spent a year investigating the rise and fall of Nicolae Ceausescu. Executed on Christmas Day 1989, Ceausescu was once a hero to his own people, and in the west. Behr's film reveals the truth behind the myth, in a ...

Détour Ceausescu (1990)

After the Romanian Revolution reached its peak during the Christmas Holidays of 1989, Romania's Communist patriarch and his wife Elena were sentenced to death by a military court and accordingly gunned down. Chris Marker's short video-collage Détour CeauŠ...

Flame of Persia (1971)

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. ...

Oratorio for Prague (1968)

A unique document of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, what began as a documentary about the liberalization of Czechoslovakia evolved into a record of the entry of Russian tanks into Prague. ...

Czechoslovakia: Portrait of a Tragedy (1968)