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The Iron Curtain

The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to the U.S.S.R. Embassy in Ottawa,...

The Iron Curtain

The geopolitical tensions create anxiety at a theater set to stage Pushkin's "Onegin". For Maxim, the Russian-born lead actor, the situation causes inner turmoil that intensifies w...

The Iron Curtain

The Iron Curtain

1947 ... The Savchenko family returns to Moscow from evacuation - husband and wife with Kostya's little son. They settle with Grandma Kostya in a huge communal apartment. Street me...

Iron Maiden: Behind The Iron Curtain

Shot during Maiden's historic tour of Poland and other parts of the Eastern Bloc in 1984, featuring interviews, live and offstage footage, capturing the atmosphere of this remarkab...

The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain

Documentary about western popular music concerts as bearer tendencies of democracy and freedom in the Czechoslovak area in period 1965 - 1990. Unique and comprehensive view of the ...

Monsters Behind the Iron Curtain

Chrome Tape, Iron Curtain

An experimental short about cassette tapes, the coming of age, and the role of electronic media in the 21st century. In the early 80s, a bootleg tape travels across the Iron Curtai...

Couture Behind The Iron Curtain

There was Pest fashion in the socialist system, a strange, mysterious grandmother, Klára Rotschild, who could hold a parlor in Paris in the 60s and 70s. There is a mystery today ab...

This Man Escaped the Iron Curtain by Zip Line

In 1986, Daniel Pohl was stuck in communist Czechoslovakia, looking for a way to escape life under totalitarian rule. His exit strategy was unusual, to say the least. After realizi...

Where Is the Iron Curtain?

Life and friendly neighbor relations on the Yugoslav-Italian border. Undisturbed growth of trading between the two countries.

The Last King Behind the Iron Curtain

Leonard Cohen: Behind the Iron Curtain

The film delves into the profound connection between the artist Leonard Cohen and Warsaw, showcasing his lesser-known journey to fame in Poland. It unveils unreleased archival foot...

Europe's Deadliest Border: Czechoslovakia's Iron Curtain

During the Cold War, many of those who tried to flee westward across the dangerous and blurred line separating communist Czechoslovakia from freedom were gunned down: the story of ...

Grand Tour of Eastern Europe: Behind The Iron Curtain

A 10,000 mile grand tour beyond the Danube!

Berlin Wall: The Night the Iron Curtain Closed

In August, 1961 three million Berliners woke up to discover their world had been thrown into chaos. In total secrecy a 28-mile ring of steel had been erected in the dead of night,...

Flight from Vienna

A Hungarian Secret Service official attempts to defect the country and earn political asylum in the West.

King Michael: The Journey Home

The dramatic story of the last king of Romania, King Mihai. A king who defied Hitler at a turning point in World War II, only to be dethroned and exiled from his homeland by Stalin...

The Monster Behind the Iron Curtain

In 1948, in the fragile post‑war countryside of socialist Yugoslavia, Marjeta gives birth to twins, Metod and Cilka. Withdrawn and volatile, Metod grows up in near isolation, shape...

Iron Curtain: Life Under Soviet Occupation

How did the Soviet Union impose its communist ideology on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe after World War II? The story of how, from 1945 until the construction of the ...