Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roland Sejko’s doc “A State Film,” culled from a vast archive of official footage made under the regime of Albanian strongman ...

Aside from the incredible amount of deaths during the Communist dictatorship in the Soviet Union, an often overlooked key aspect of Soviet policy was the war against religion, the persecution of ...

James Lloydovich Patterson, the son of an African American father and a Russian mother who became a celebrated child actor of the Stalinist era for his role in a 1930s propaganda film mythologizing ...

A Soviet propaganda film about the feat of one of the first Soviet agitators-film mechanics Trofim Glushkov, killed by the White Guardians in the years of the Civil War.

Roland Sejko’s doc “A State Film,” culled from a vast archive of official footage made under the regime of Albanian strongman Enver Hoxha, is a fascinating study in the power of image and myth.