Cinema Komunisto

Serbian director Mila Turajlic explores the golden age and excess of Yugoslavian cinema during the leadership of revolutionary leader and film fanatic Josip Broz Tito. Speaking with Leka (Aleksandar) Konstatinovic, the projectionist who showed Tito a film every teatime for 32 years, the documentary explores how the Marshall ploughed vast amounts of state money into countless films as well as the world class studios he built in the hills above Belgrade.

In a fortified, explosion-proof bunker of the German Federal Archives Vault, 2000 film reels made of celluloid, and the highly flammable nitrocellulose are meticulously organised and stored. They are the silent witnesses of a bygone era when more than 1200 films were produced under the Nazi regime, depicting a wide array of topics, ranging from chest-thumping musicals to insidious melodramas about euthanasia itself.

Historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us back to the strange years of the Cold War.

The Russian Revolution of 1917 is one of the most controversial events of the 20th century. Three men - Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin - emerged from obscurity to forge an entirely new political system. In the space of six months, they turned the largest country on earth into the first Communist state. Was this a triumph of people power or a political coup d'etat that led to blood-soaked totalitarianism? A hundred years later, the Revolution still sparks ferocious debate. This film dramatizes the 245 days that brought these men to supreme power.

In August 1991 a failed coup d'état attempt (known as Putsch) led by a group of hard-core communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets. The USSR collapsed soon after, and the tricolour of the sovereign Russian Federation flew over Kremlin.