ChannelHopper.org > Films about communism

AD SPACE

Films about communism

The Killing Fields

The Killing Fields

UK flag Eire flag Canada flag USA flag
Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 7.8

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pul...

Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Killing Fields
Arabikkatha

Arabikkatha

UK flag Canada flag USA flag
Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Against his wishes, 'Cuba' Mukundan goes to Dubai to make good his father's alleged misappropriation of funds from the local cooperative bank. It is there that he learns the true meaning of the term...

Find out more, including where to buy or rent Arabikkatha
Land and Freedom

Land and Freedom

UK flag
Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1995 IMDB Rating: 7.5

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he...

Find out more, including where to buy or rent Land and Freedom
Balloon

Balloon

UK flag Eire flag USA flag Australia flag New Zealand flag
Film Age rating: 11 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts...

Find out more, including where to buy or rent Balloon
Swept Away

Swept Away

USA flag
Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1974 IMDB Rating: 7.5

A spoiled rich woman and a brutish Communist deckhand become stranded alone on a desert island after venturing away from their cruise.

Find out more, including where to buy or rent Swept Away
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

USA flag
Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1928 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms seve...

Find out more, including where to buy or rent October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
Mao's Last Dancer

Mao's Last Dancer

USA flag Australia flag New Zealand flag
Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 7.3

At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with...

Find out more, including where to buy or rent Mao's Last Dancer
Frida

Frida

UK flag Eire flag Canada flag USA flag Australia flag
Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 7.3

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

Find out more, including where to buy or rent Frida
Reds

Reds

UK flag USA flag
Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1981 IMDB Rating: 7.3

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, hi...

Find out more, including where to buy or rent Reds
First They Killed My Father

First They Killed My Father

UK flag Eire flag Canada flag USA flag Australia flag New Zealand flag
Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 7.2

A 5-year-old girl embarks on a harrowing quest for survival amid the sudden rise and terrifying reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

Find out more, including where to buy or rent First They Killed My Father