Access rare film footage from the twentieth century with this new and unrivalled collection for comparative global research: Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda, sourced from the British Film Institute.

 

Socialism on Film provides access to previously unseen footage from the USSR, Vietnam, Cuba, China, East Germany, Eastern Europe and more. Made up of documentary films, features and newsreels, the footage gives a rare glimpse into all aspects of socialist life and is the largest collection of its kind to survive in Western Europe.

Module I: Wars and Revolutions is available now, request a 30-day trial or bespoke pricing for your institution today:

 

• The Russian Revolution
• Lenin and Marx
• The Vietnam War
• World War II
• Latin America and Cuba
• Nuclear war and peace
• The Holocaust
• The Chinese Revolution

• USSR Today
• Czech Quarterly Review
• China Today
• GDR Magazine
• Korea Today
• Soviet Health
• Soviet Sport
• Vietnam Newsreel

 

• Arts & culture
• Agriculture
• Children and family
• Education
• Health and medicine
• Industry
• Science and technology
• State and politics

• Watch first-hand the Soviet fears on President Reagan's 'Star Wars' defence initiative.
  
• Witness interviews with imprisoned American pilots shot down and captured over Vietnam in Pilots in Pyjamas.
  
  
• See Vanessa Redgrave's emotional response to nuclear testing in The Nuclear Plague.
  
• Access footage previously banned from general release in Britain.