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In this beautiful, heartrending, yet horrifying film, North Koreans tell their stories of imprisonment, sexual slavery, torture, murder, and escape to China or South Korea during the nearly 50-year regime of Kim Il Sung (1912–94). The interviews are illustrated through the interspersion of dance sequences, archi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Gr 9 Up—Few will forget the drama of the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, both as a single event and as a metaphor for the collapse of the Soviet Union's Communist empire. While the causes of that disintegration are numerous, one significant factor was pressure from young people to live in a freer society that was open to the kind of expression seen in contemporary music. The manner in which Russia's successive governments attempted to block the West's influence on the countries under its dominance—best exemplified by the wall separating the people of Berlin—and their ultimate failu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More