​GameChanger: Lithuania's Nonviolent Revolution

In 1941 after the Soviet Army invaded Lithuania and the deportation of thousands of Lithuanian citizens began. By 1952, over 130,000 Lithuanians were deported to forced labor camps in Siberia and over 150,000 Lithuanians were deported to the gulags (prison camps) as po...

At the same time that the United States was engaged in the Civil War in 1863, Lithuania and Poland teamed up against the first oppressive occupation of Russia in an effort to gain back their independence. For more information, please refer to this Lituanus article whic...

In case you did not see it on our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/gamechangerfilmlt), we have a brand new clip with interviews from Cleveland, Chicago, and Lithuania!

In the clip we have:

• Aldona Stempuziene (Cleveland): Aldona is an opera singer. Her father Benedikt...

While in Lithuania, we had the opportunity to interview a former partisan fighter who runs a very educational museum near the border between Lithuania and Latvia. The Freedom War Museum (Laisves Kovu Muziejus) is run by Andrius Druckus in Obeliai, Lithuania. During our...

During our outdoor filming through Lithuania, we found several Holocaust mass grave sites. Here are the photographs from those areas. 

More details to come. 

Over the last two weeks, we have been driving through Lithuania in search of historical sites relevant to our research. We've taken the lesser traveled dirt roads through miles of rolling farm country where there are few houses in sight or maybe a five mile stretch wit...

One of our interviewees, filmmaker, Jonas Mekas, published a diary if his life during the occupations of Lithuania by the Nazis and Soviets. It was not uncommon for people to conceal their identity upon fleeing Lithuania to protect any family that was unable to escape...

In our last post, we mentioned that it was an important week for Lithuania. On January 13th, 1991, unarmed Lithuanians stood up to the Soviet military to defend their freedom and independence. From January 1st-9th there were Soviet provocations and the deployment of ad...

This week we will have two blog posts as it was a very important week for Lithuania. We will explain why in the next post!

Earlier this week we had the opportunity to see what a Soviet bunker looked like, right outside the city center of Kaunas. It was a bunker that was...