Mikhail Kalatozov’s film, which was largely forgotten until its innovative cinematography caught the attention of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese in the 1990s, features four stories about the struggles of the Cuban people. In one of them, an impoverished Cuban woman is forced to work as a prostitute in an American-owned casino, where she meets an American tourist who sleeps with her, pays her a pittance, and then steals her beloved crucifix necklace.

In what one critic called “conceivably the most anti-American movie ever made,” a white supremacist American super-hero tries to stop France from becoming communist. The farce, directed by American expat William Klein and soundtracked by Serge Gainsbourg, sees the titular Mr Freedom fire on peaceful protesters after railing against racial and religious minorities. If France rejects US-led capitalism, the hero has a backup plan: detonating a nuclear weapon.

This North Korean miniseries made American defector James Joseph Dresnok Pyongyang-famous in his role as Arthur Cockstud, a sadistic US military officer who runs a prisoner-of-war camp. Another defector, Charles Robert Jenkins, plays a shadowy capitalist scheming to prolong the Korean War and enrich the arms industry.