Burning Bush (2013)

This Czech mini-series is about the true story of what happened in Czechoslovakia in 1969. In the late 1960s the Czechoslovak Communists tried to modernize the country and the Party in what was known as the Prague Spring. The reforms included: a  partial decentralization of the economy and democratization. The freedoms included: a loosening of restrictions on the media, speech and travel for their citizens. In August 1968 the Soviets (and other Warsaw Pact countries) invaded and occupied Czechoslovakia to stop the reforms and bring the country back under the tight control of the Soviet Union. Around 108 Czechoslovaks were killed in the invasion and around 500 were wounded.
The Soviet occupation and it's repressive response to the reforms led many Czechoslovaks to resist. This movie is about what happened after one person, a student, named Jan Palach set himself on fire in Prague on January 16, 1969. At first the Czechoslovak Communists treated Jan Palach as a hero and even allowed a major funeral to be held. Then they decided (probably due to Soviet influence) to put a stop to people "worshipping" Palach and what he stood for. They (the Communists) make Jan out to be a n unstable person.  Palach's mother tries  to sue the Czechoslovak  Communist Party for defaming her son's name and gets lawyer Dagmar Burešová (played by Tatiana Pauhofova) involved in the case. Of course the Czechoslovak Communist Party wins the case (because their power was re-established and tightened with help from the USSR.) Those who tried to help the Palach's (including Dagmar Buresova) had their lives monitored and changed for the worse.
I had heard about Jan Palach setting himself on fire, but not about what happened afterwards and this movie did a great job in showing the reality of the Czechoslovak and Soviet Communist rule in Czechoslovakia from the 1960s to the 1990s.