Dictatorship Movies

Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are...

Everything you've ever wanted to know about Saddam Hussein (but were afraid to ask).

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the...

Combining modern footage with home movies and interviews, filmmaker María Casado's life is explored, focusing on themes of family, history,...

The story of the tortuous struggle against the silence of the victims of the dictatorship imposed by General Franco after the victory of the rebel...

Khian, Pim and Karn, young rebellious students, work together to make a protest to uncover the corruption in their school by folding hundreds of...

Resonating Surfaces is triple portrait, of a city, a woman and an attitude to life. For the personal story of Suely Rolnik, who is a Brazilian...

In 1985, in the obscure town of Dolores, the Orapronobis, a cult under the leadership of Kumander Kontra, murders a foreign priest who gave the last...

In the city of Soli, ruled by Anfa 8, where night is eternal, Horus hunts a renegade cult of solar worshippers who are desperately searching for the...

Based on the life of Edgar Jopson, a young man from an affluent family, who became an underground activist and confronted President Ferdinand Marcos...

A group of Greek soldiers are assigned to run the Cinematographic Unit of the army in the midst of political unrest.

There was a time in Argentina, not so long ago, when the army wasn't only one, official, but many and made up by civilians. In those times of...

This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades.

In an empty warehouse, four women remember the rooms of the house where they were tortured during the last dictatorship. After testifying about their...

In Germán Araujo, director Aldo Novick revives the memory of a journalist who defied censorship during one of Uruguay's darkest periods....

From its old age, a SIG-510 rifle tells the story of its military service as a weapon used by the Chilean army. It tells of his military training,...