Carlos, um garoto de 12 anos, perde seu pai e é deixado no orfanato Santa Luzia, em plena Guerra Civil Espanhola. Lá, aprende a conviver com adultos agressivos e crianças perturbadas pela atmosfera do lugar. O espírito de um ex-aluno clama por vingança e instiga Carlos a descobrir seu assassino.

"Rumo à Liberdade" relata a fuga de um pequeno grupo de prisioneiros de várias nacionalidades de um gulag na Sibéria em 1940, bem como a sua jornada de vida ao longo de milhares de quilómetros por cinco países hostis.

Guy Montag é bombeiro, numa sociedade isolada cujo governo proíbe os livros e a liberdade de pensamento. É o seu dever queimar todos os livros subversivos e a única fonte de informação permitida são hipnóticos écrans gigantes. Mas Guy vai apaixonar-se por Clarisse, uma rebelde que o leva a ler livros proibidos e a questionar as práticas do governo. Ele vai ter de decidir entre lutar contra o sistema ou pactuar com ele...

Enquanto procurava uma solução para o seu grave estado de saúde, David, um neurocirurgião de renome, descobre um segredo sinistro escondido no passado.

Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the conclusion that to achieve his ambitious goal he must be diligent, listen and observe as much as he can, be always discreet and use what he learns to his own advantage; but the turbulent tides of history will continually stand in his way.

Salamanca, Espanha, 1936. Nos primeiros dias da rebelião militar que provocou o início da Guerra Civil espanhola (1936-39), o escritor Miguel de Unamuno apoiou a revolta na esperança de que o caos político prevalecente terminasse. Mas quando o confronto se torna sangrento, Unamuno começa a questionar a sua posição inicial.

Um pouco antes da Primeira Guerra Mundial John Reed (Warren Beatty), um jornalista americano, conhece Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton), uma mulher casada, que larga o marido para ficar com Reed e se torna uma importante feminista. Eles se envolvem em disputas políticas e trabalhistas nos Estados Unidos, e vão para a Rússia a tempo de participarem da Revolução de outubro de 1917, quando os comunistas assumiram o poder. Este acontecimento inspira o casal, que volta aos Estados Unidos esperando liderar uma revolução semelhante.

Em um momento de perturbação política interna na Itália, o inspetor de polícia recebe a tarefa de reprimir os dissidentes políticos. Dentre eles esta sua amante Augusta Terzi. Ele começa a testar os limites da polícia, vendo se irá ser acusado pelo crime. Assim, começa a plantar pistas óbivias que o identificam como o assassino da mulher, e vê seus colegas ignorando-as, seja intencionalmente ou não.

A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.

Czechoslovakia, 1941. As the war continues, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Nazi-occupied Prague and establishes a regime of terror that will force freedom fighters to act. But the price to pay will be too high.

Numa remota aldeia da selva amazónica, um grupo de garimpeiros revolta-se quando o governo local empreende uma violenta repressão.

Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a small tobacco shop, where he meets the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, who will become a valuable friend in times of chaos and uncertainty.

Neste documentário fictício, as prisões americanas estão a esgotar a sua capacidade e o Presidente Nixon declara o estado de emergência. Todos os novos prisioneiros, a maioria dos quais ligados ao movimento anti-guerra, têm agora a opção de passar três dias na prisão ou no Punishment Park, onde serão caçados por desporto pelas autoridades federais. Os prisioneiros escolhem invariavelmente a segunda opção, mas descobrem que, entre o calor do deserto e os polícias brutais, as suas hipóteses de sobrevivência são escassas.

Northern Spain, October 1944. Several groups of guerrilla fighters, former Republican soldiers exiled in France after the end of the Spanish Civil War, infiltrate the country in order to provoke a popular uprising against General Franco's dictatorship.

Carlos, a ruthless Spanish negotiation expert working in Brussels, is tasked with handling the kidnapping of a senior oil company executive in a troubled West African country —with which he has old and deep ties—, torn by ethnic tensions and government abuses.

Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.

As anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities, many citizens-led protests are being repressed with an ever-increasing violence. In this documentary, David Dufresne gathers a panel of citizens to question, exchange and confront their views on the social order and the legitimacy of the use of force by the State.

Budapest, Hungary, Christmas 1957. The state, insecure after the defeated revolution of 1956 and increasingly put under the influence of a renewed Stalinist atmosphere, has decreed that all security officials must pass an exam to verify their loyalty. But to be actually effective in a shadowy world where suspicion and secrets reign, the subjects must be unaware that they are being tested.

Spain, April 14, 1931. The Second Republic is born. From the beginning, the writer Miguel de Unamuno is considered one of the ethical pillars of the new regime. Five years later, on December 31, 1936, a few months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), Unamuno dies at his home in Salamanca, capital of the rebel side, led by General Francisco Franco, and main center of dissemination of its propaganda apparatus.

Kharkiv, the 1930s. The heyday of Ukrainian art. Ambitious young poet Vladimir Akimov happily settles in at the new luxury "Slovo" House built specifically for artists. He comes from the provinces and works as a proof-reader in a printing press, and has never even dreamed of living under one roof with prominent Ukrainian writers and artists. He thinks his own poetry is genius, but nobody takes his literary efforts seriously, not to mention the occasional chuckles over his epigone poems. But fate smiles at him. The head of the political intelligence agency suggests that he become the author of a play written earlier. Akimov agrees, signing a non- disclosure note. The poet has no idea what price he will pay for this success. “‘Slovo’ House” is a story about a generation of Ukrainian artists persecuted by the totalitarian system, unfolding against the backdrop of one of the largest genocides of the 20th century: the Holodomor, which caused the death of almost 7 million people.