political prisoners

Tells the story of Nelson Mandela's fight for the end of apartheid in South Africa.

Tells the story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who was personally responsible for saving the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews in the waning days of World War II, and who was arrested by the Soviet Government on unknown charges and imprisoned, never to be heard from again.

An aging revolutionary is imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the political party to which he has dedicated his life, and he recalls a career that embodies the ironies and betrayals of a totalitarian government.

Tells the life story of Tibetan nun Ani Pachan, discussing her idyllic childhood in Tibet, her role as a leader of the resistance after the Chinese invaded Tibet, her twenty-one-year imprisonment and torture by the Chinese, and the faith that sustained her until she was freed and finally realized her dream of meeting the Dalai Lama.

A study of S-21, a secret facility in Phnom Penh where enemies of the Khmer Rouge regime were interrogated, tortured, imprisoned, and executed for alleged counterrevolutionary crimes.