The Media Library of Genesee Valley BOCES

Learn how the Lenin Shipyard strikes changed the course of Polish history and trace the growth of Solidarity under Lech Walesa

Chronicles the history of Romania, tracing the rise and fall of Nicolae Ceausescu, his repressive regime, and the formation of the National Salvation Front after his demise

Fearing interruption in shipments of oil from Persian sources, President Jimmy Carter responded strongly to the Afghan invasion. In 1985, the new Soviet Secretary General, Mikhail Gorbachev took an unprecedented aboutface stance, declaring Afghanistan to be a bleeding wound claiming too many lives and too much money

Viewers will witness the contributions of artists, writers and intellectuals, from Charter 77 to the Civic Forum, and discover how students' numerous protests snowballed into a revolution

Strategically important Afghanistan is shown as a volatile world stage upon which US and Soviet detente was stretched to its limits

Probes the political and economic reasons between the building of the Berlin Wall, and the tense, 16-hour military face-off between Nikita Khrushchev and John Kennedy that ended in a stalemate

Examines the national and international chain of events that led to Hungary's brief period of freedom, and then details the full-scale November 4th military invasion that rolled over Budapest, killing 30,000 Hungarians and restoring Soviet domination

Presents an outline of Marxist Socialism and the historical forces that brought the worker's government to power and reduced Imperial Russia to ashes

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich brilliantly portrays a single day, any day, in the life of a single Russian soldier who was captured by the Germans in 1945 and who managed to escape a few days later. Along with millions of others, this soldier was charged with some sort of political crime, and since it was easier to confess than deny it and die, Ivan Denisovich "confessed" to "high treason" and received a sentence of 10 years in a Siberian labor camp