Eastern Europe
UNDER FIRE: Soviet Women Combat Veterans Of World War IIWomen's Studies Sociology Russia Europe Eastern Europe Directed by Women
Under Fire captures powerful first-person accounts by five decorated Soviet women as they describe stepping into a man’s world and fighting amid blood and death.
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MY GRANDFATHER'S HOUSEJewish Studies Eastern Europe Directed by Women
A personal documentary that follows filmmaker Eileen Douglas's determined search to find her grandfather's house in Lithuania, the home he lived in and left behind in 1911 when he fled, at 16, from Kovno to America to escape the Tsar's Army.
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COUNTERPOINT FOR HERWomen's Studies Criminal & Law Sociology Europe Eastern Europe Directed by Women
Counterpoint For Her exposes the brutal reality of human trafficking. This eye-opening documentary follows several men and women intimately involved in the trade, including a local Bosnian girl who, while living in Italy in 1992, was sold into the trade by a good friend of her brother.
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PICTURES FROM THE OLD COUNTRYSociology Europe Eastern Europe Cultural Studies Children & Young Adult Directed by Women
This video chronicles the filmmaker’s quest to uncover the mystery of her Slovak identity and heritage. As a young girl growing up during the Cold War, she was curious about the 'strange' language spoken by her grandmother and the enigma that shrouds her past.
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POLA'S MARCHEastern Europe Jewish Studies Psychology & Psychiatry Sociology
This inspirational video chronicles the emotional journey home of one Holocaust survivor—Pola Susswein.
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K. MALEVICH: TRANSFIGURATIONRussia Eastern Europe Art History
Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935), a Russian painter best known for his founding in 1913 of the Suprematism movement, is one of the founding fathers of the avant-garde. This video portrays the vision of this innovative artist whose aesthetic ideas revolutionized customary perceptions of the fine arts.
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CZECH WOMEN: NOW WE ARE FREEWomen's Studies Sociology Eastern Europe Directed by Women
The peaceful "Velvet Revolution" of November 1989, which put an end to decades of communist rule in Czechoslovakia, has led to a remarkable transformation of people's day-to-day lives.
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A TRIAL IN PRAGUE (56 min.)Eastern Europe Directed by Women
This video chronicles an infamous political show trial that took place in Czechoslovakia at the height of the Cold War. In 1952 fourteen leading Communists, including Rudolf Slansky, the second most powerful man in the country, were tried on charges of high treason and espionage.
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SUMMER IN IVYEEastern Europe Jewish Studies Peace & Conflict Russia Performing Arts Sociology Directed by Women
The Soviet Union had recently collapsed, food was scarce, but spirits were high. The tiny dirt road town was turned upside down with audiences and media from every corner of the world—and those involved in the production that summer in Ivye were forever changed.
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PRELUDE TO KOSOVO: WAR AND PEACE IN BOSNIA AND CROATIASociology Political Science Peace & Conflict Eastern Europe
This video, part of a series of documentaries on conflict resolution in the world's trouble spots, depicts the bitter civil war in the former Yugoslavia. Shot on location in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia, the documentary combines graphic footage and interviews with religious and political figures. It examines the ideology of "ethnic cleansing" and the massacres resulting from a nationalist quest for political, cultural and religious domination.
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PORRAIMOS: EUROPE'S GYPSIES IN THE HOLOCAUSTSociology Jewish Studies Health Europe Eastern Europe Directed by Women
This historical video chronicles the Roma (Gypsy) Holocaust—Porraimos, or "the devouring." It is the first American documentary to expose how
the pseudo-science of eugenics was used to persecute not only Jews,
but also Gypsies.
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LUBOML: MY HEART REMEMBERSSociology Jewish Studies Eastern Europe Directed by Women
This historical video uses rare film footage, an extensive collection of archival photos, and interviews with former residents to re-create the fabric of daily life in the predominantly Jewish market town, or shtetl, of Luboml in prewar Poland.
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L'CHAYIM, COMRADE STALIN!World History Sociology Russia Jewish Studies Eastern Europe Immigration
Traces the history of Birobidzhan, the capital of the Soviet Union's Jewish Autonomous Region, from 1928 to the present.
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THE JEWISH STEPPESociology Russia Jewish Studies Eastern Europe
Documents the tragic history of an agrarian commune established in the Soviet Union during the Twenties.
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CITIZENSSociology Political Science Eastern Europe
Portrays human dimensions of Poland's Solidarity
movement in 1980-81 that were obscured by Cold-War rhetoric:
the efforts of workers, artists and intellectuals who
joined together to create a thriving civil society within
a totalitarian state.
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ALBANIAN JOURNEY: END OF AN ERASociology Political Science Eastern Europe Cultural Studies
Examines the rise and fall of socialism in Albania, tracing the nation's history from its
1944 establishment as a communist republic by Enver Hoxha to its recent emergence from
decades of authoritarian rule following Hoxha's death in 1985.
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WHAT ABOUT MACEDONIA?Sociology Political Science Economics Eastern Europe Cultural Studies
Examines the former Yugoslav Republic and newly independent country of Macedonia
and its efforts to make the difficult transition from socialism to capitalism and to forge a
democratic society in which ethnic minorities share equally in political and economic
decision making.
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ARMENIA: BITTERSWEET FREEDOMSociology Economics Eastern Europe
Chronicles the struggle for survival of this former Soviet Republic since its independence
following the break-up of the Soviet Union.
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RUSSIA FOR SALE: THE ROUGH ROAD TO CAPITALISMSociology Russia Political Science Economics Eastern Europe Directed by Women
Tells the compelling stories of three Russians against the backdrop of the former Soviet
Union's breakup and historic transition from Communism to Capitalism.
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RUSSIA AND AMERICAUrban Studies Sociology Russia Economics Eastern Europe American Studies
Focuses on the Russian city of Ekaterinburg as a case-study illustration of the former
Soviet Union's difficult transition from a socialist to a capitalist economy.
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