political prisoners

When Carlos Rueda's wife suddenly disappears, he discovers he has visions of the fates of the desaparecidos, the disappeareds. However, he has none about his wife.

At the request of his gravely ill grandmother, twelve-year-old Ion Radu sets out to find his parents who had been taken as political prisoners years before, and he is caught up in the 1989 revolution in Romania.

The story of the life and dreams of the black man who dedicated his life to fighting for racial equality in South Africa.

In the late 1930's Eugenia Ginzburg was a loyal and very active member of the Communist Party. Her loyalty was such that she would have died for the party. Instead, she fell victim to one of Stalin's purges and was sent to prisons and labor camps, including two years of solitary confinement. She became one of the many individuals who never knew why they were sent to Siberia.

Ahmed Kathrada has been a modest hero of the South African resistance against apartheid. As one of Nelson Mandela's closest friends, he shared his prison term with him for a quarter-century and his ordeals afterwards. For fifty years he has worked side-by-side with Mandela to bring an end to apartheid and achieve reconciliation between old enemies.