The footage in this collection documents the communist world from the Russian Revolution until the 1980s. Sourced from the British Film Institute (BFI), the documentaries, newsreels, and feature films reveal the world as seen by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, and Latin American filmmakers of the time. Content covers all aspects of socialist life from society, war, culture, the Cold War, memory of the past, and contemporaneous views on current affairs.