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Reviewed on March 15, 2011
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
School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2010 | Video/DVD
Gr 8 Up—This short documentary outlines the history of the U.S.S.R. from its earliest roots in the 1920s to its dissolution in 1991. Among the topics covered are Czar Nicholas II's abdication, Lenin and the Russian Revolution, Stalin and his goal to make the Soviet Union a superpower, the Iron Curta...Log In or Sign Up to Read More