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A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.

A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.

After a run-in with the law, a Mongolian man becomes a fugitive and joins the Russian Civil War.

A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.

A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed man is arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns to rebel.

The film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral which took place in Rome is a set of mainly public images, the re-presentation of the political figure. The video briefly traces the political life of Enrico Berlinguer, the interventions. We see the images of 1976, at the CPSU congress in Moscow, and of 1984, in Padua, from the stage in Piazza della Frutta, during the closing rally of the European elections, visibly suffering.

A documentary showing the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them.

In May 1913 the Romanov Dynasty celebrates its 300th anniversary at the Russian throne. The last emperor in the long line is Tsar Nicholas II. He rules over a country with huge social and economic differences. Russia is for the most part still an agrarian society, but capitalism and its industries are growing. In 1914 Russia gets involved in the First World War. Tsar Nicholas II declares a general mobilization. A vast number of peasants and workers have to go to the front as soldiers. After three years the country is ruined by the war, and there is a shortage of provisions. In February 1917 workers begin striking in the capital, Petrograd. Their protests are soon joined by soldiers. A complete anarchy is threatening the country, when the parliament, called the duma, reorganizes the power structure by forming a new Provisional Government. At the same time the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies forms another ruling body at the City Hall of Petrograd. In this situation Tsar Nicholas II sees no other possibility than to resign from his government. On the 4th of March 1917 he declares his abdication from the throne. The new Provisional Government and its war minister Kerensky continue the war. This presents an opportunity for the Bolsheviks to organize demonstrations and to persuade the workers and soldiers to overthrow the Provisional Government and seize power themselves.

During some months, the Dutch movie director Ivens and some North Vietnamese colleagues filmed the life of North Vietnamese peasants under the menace of heavy American bombardments. The result is an indictment of all forms of war.

This 21st issue of the Kino-pravda series commemorates the first anniversary of Vladimir Lenin's death.

Documentary about former Black Panther.

From Trevico in the province of Avellino, a young man arrives in Turin to work at Fiat. Once hired, he will face harsh experiences as an immigrant and a worker.

An emblematic work that anticipates the feminist movement, in the simple but radical gesture of contrast between the advertising images of women and real women: workers, mothers, who struggle to make ends meet. The film gives voice to working-class women, in a pre-feminist experimental film that shows the unavoidable contribution made by women to politics and social justice.

Tall el-Zaatar documents the 1976 massacre of Palestinian and Lebanese refugees at Tall el-Zaatar, a refugee camp in northeast Beirut. Produced after the massacre, but featuring footage shot before and during the siege, the movie reconstructs the history of the camp and recounts the long months of assault and resistance through the voices of many surviving men, women and children.

Political documentary, close to the positions of the Italian Communist Party (PCI)- about neofascist's "strategy of tension" in Italy 1974-75; focuses on the bombings of train Italicus and of a Communist meeting in Brescia.