Michel Noll

October 2003, Georgia. Under the leadership of the charismatic Mikhail Saakachvili, also known as "Micha", the establishment is swept away in a mere few weeks. The film shows an inside glance at a successful revolution, one that remained non-violent and served as an inspiration for events which led other former soviet republics, like Ukraine towards democracy.

Through archival video, first-hand testimonies of Vietnamese veterans and historian commentary, the film examines the impact of Ho Chi Minh in the evolution of 20th century Vietnam.

"It crosses the roof of the world, winding more than 4,000 tortuous kilometers across 20 mountain chains and two desert plateaux. It spans four great rivers, and cuts through the territory of 26 different ethnic groups. This is the ancient Tea Road, which opens Southwest China onto Tibet and thereby Nepal, India, Persia, Mongolia and Russia, and then Europe. The legendary Tea Road, crossed by Marco Polo during his travels, but used by innumerable...

Jean-Bertrand Aristide is a Roman Catholic priest turned politician who served two non-consecutive terms as the democratically elected president of Haiti. On the morning of February 29, 2004, Aristide fled the country for the second time. Aristide served in 1991, from '94 to '96, and from 2001 to '04, and in two out of three cases, he was unseated by coup. In 2000, Aristide won reelection by a staggering 91.8 percent of the vote. The Clinton administration...

Patrice Lumumba was the first elected prime minister of the former Belgian Congo. While popular with the Congolese, he alienated many in Europe and the United States. A few months after becoming prime minister, he was overthrown by a military coup and then killed. Nobody has been charged with the crime.

Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General from 1953 to 1961, met his death in a mysterious plane crash while on a mission in Katanga. Although officially seen as an accident, the circumstances in which the plane crashed, the general hostility against the UN at the time in the region, and the many financial and political interests at stake in that part of Africa during the Cold War, all seem to point now to the fact that his death could have suited many...

The disc explores the career and death of Columbian Liberal Party leader, Jorge Gaitan and how Columbian politics are still divided across the sames lines today as they were on April 9, 1948.

The disc presents the life, career and assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the first woman to govern an Islamic country. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first freely elected prime minister of Pakistan.

On the 28 February 1986, Olof Palme, Sweden's social democratic Prime Minister, was shot dead as he was walking home from the cinema which he had attended with his wife. 20 years on and still there are no answers, only theories. Although there seem to have been several witnesses who saw men with walkie-talkies in the vicinity on the night in question, the Swedish police force seems to have closed ranks. According to the chief investigator on the case,...

Summary: "In the Netherlands, a country so keen on consensus, Pim Fortuyn, a political outsider, criticises both the traditional right-of-centre, and the established left-of-centre parties. His main target was immigration, the problems of social security, unemployment and public safety. In cities like Rotterdam, there is an immigrant majority. In the past it had been "Come to tolerant Holland, you're welcome." First came the old colonies, then the...