Movies and TvShows featuring "planned-economy" theme.

Enthusiasm is a documentary film that showcases the enthusiasm and industrialization taking place in the Soviet Union in 1930. It focuses on the Komsomol youth organization and their efforts in the steel factory, highlighting the achievements of the 5-year plan and the progress of socialism. The film also explores the coal mining industry in Donbas, Ukraine, and the impact of planned economy on the working class.

Trace of Stones is a banned film that portrays the life of construction workers on a building site in East Germany. The story revolves around a love triangle, political controversy, and social discontent in a planned economy.

A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard reality of living that dream. The freedom that these slow and clumsy vehicles were giving to their owners; the cars as an instrument in the Cold War battle; legends and homemade tune-ups as an attempt to stand at least a little bit off the crowd.

The building of blast furnaces Magnitogorsk and the Kubas Basin by Komsomol, the Communist Union of youth, as part of Stalin’s first five-year plan.

Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000 is a documentary highlighting the victory of Cuba's planned economy and political leadership in the face of adversity. The film explores the ideologies and propaganda used during the battle and showcases the determination of the Cuban people. With the backdrop of Vietnam and the political march, the film portrays the significance of the event in Cuban history.

Set in the Soviet Union in the 70's. The plot is based on real industrial conflicts in the life of the country's largest metallurgical plant, where there are many acute problems. Modernization of Soviet metallurgical industry causes a clash between old style Communist bosses and the new generation of engineers and managers.

Albert, an auto mechanic is listening to a radio broadcast about a society based on the "coordinated cooperation of ants". He becomes excited about the idea, and becomes a little careless. The hood of the car, crashes down on his head, knocking him out cold. While unconcious, he dreams about being a worker among ants in the state-controlled nation of Antrolia. At first he is enthusiastic, but soon becomes disenchanted. When he threatens to strike, the soldier ants drag him before a firing squad. Just as he is being executed, he wakes up. He jumps into the car, races to the radio station and assaults the speaker, who is still extolling the virtures of state-planning boards and a controlled, planned economy. The speech, on red paper, flies into the air, as the mechanic grabs the microphone to give the audience "the real low-down on them ants".

An anthology of stories about the indigenous nomadic people of the Russian tundra under modern Communist rule. Finland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2000

Diese Golzower - Umstandsbestimmung eines Ortes is a documentary film that offers a unique glimpse into the lives of the people living in Golzow, a village in East Germany in the year 1984. The film explores various aspects of their daily lives, including their work in agriculture, the influence of the communist regime, the challenges of living in a planned economy, and the close-knit community of village people.

A documentary on the rise and fall of Project Cybersyn, an attempt at a computer-managed centralized economy undertaken in Chile during the presidency of Salvador Allende.