Eyewitnesses explain how communism appealed to their deepest hopes and dreams, and how leadership under Lenin and Stalin eventually gave way to despair. (60 min.).
Eyewitnesses tell the story of how the Communist system collapsed, and the extraordinary weeks around the fall of the Berlin Wall. See the events in Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. (60 min.).
Examines the causes and effects of uprisings in China throughout the twentieth century, and discusses the efforts of Mao Zedong to create a society free of inequality, poverty, and foreign control.
Examines the causes and effects of uprisings in Russia in the early twentieth century, and discusses why people were so receptive to the message of communist leader Vladimir Lenin.
Examines the causes and effects of uprisings in Cuba, from Spanish colonial rule to independence, and looks at the controversial leadership and philosophies of communist dictator Fidel Castro.
