Lech Wałęsa

The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly it became clear how dependent countries had become...

A film showing the social mood and tensions in the period between the end of the strikes in August 1980 and the registration of the Solidarity Trade...

The documentary presents the presidential election campaign in Poland in 1990.

The film traces the conflict between General Wojciech Jaruzelski and the electrician Lech Wałęsa. Close companions and contemporary witnesses have...

Documentary about the Intervision Song Contest in general and the 1980 edition in particular. Focuses on Finland's participation and the shipyard...

Exactly 25 years ago, on December 10, 1983, Danuta Wałęsa received the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to her husband in Oslo. The tragic figure of...

Documentary about the beginning of Solidarnosc.

Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book is a 2006 propaganda documentary film about "jokes" under the Soviet Union.

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on...

A black political comedy, which, as a backdrop, uses the election race and the accompanying chaos in the media. The film's protagonist is a...

Documentary film about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Poland.

Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include the...

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's...

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over...

From 1989 to 1991 a string of unpredictable events happened that brought to light the rivalry between two men: Gorbachev, hindered by the economic...

A 2005 novella film created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. It consists of 13 10-minute shorts. There are various...

Lech Wałęsa. One of the most important and at the same time most colourful figures in Polish history. In communist Poland he was a simple...

The eventful life of a humble Polish priest who once decried the pomp of the Catholic Church "a circus" and labeled the Pope a "prisoner of the...

Ania, a sensitive, shy green-architecture student, tends the gardens of an elegant building and finds herself falling for its handsome tenant,...

Together with his family, Wiktor moves into a recently bought flat, which turns out to have belonged to Lech Wałęsa, a symbol of freedom and a...

Such changes took place in Poland over a period of several months - from the end of 1988 to the end of January 1990? Michał Bielawski, through the...