Dictatorship Movies

The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young...

The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of...

A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due to the competing interests of the many factions...

In Brazil, in 1978, under the dictatorship, the country lives the euphoria of disco fever and the fantasy life of Dancin' Days, a prime time soap....

In a drab, anonymous gray school governed by a strict authoritarian regime, an apparently unremarkable day is turned on its head following a...

A semi-fictional correspondence between two women: one goes to Iran in 1979 to topple the Shah; the other experiences the onerous years of...

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,...

Three widows of political prisoners united against the dictatorship in Brazil and the repression of the military regime.

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist reformer, now obsessed with the idea of power,...

An ambassador from an outer (and rich) space comes to visit a poor planet, where he ends up being kidnapped.

Montenegro is the newest European country with a proud history, one that is being falsified for current political purposes, thus creating an...

The horrifying story of what went on inside General Pinochet's secret prisons.

A plea against the government of General Hugo Banzer (1971-1978) and specifically against the Bolivian military during the seven-year dictatorship....

The clash of a libertarian school with the military dictatorship in the 60s. An exciting and little-known page in the history of public education in...

A middle class couple in Chile at the night that Cecilia Bolocco becomes Miss Universe. A student film by Gabriel Lizama AKA Liz Taylor.

Who is Kim Yo-jong? In a context of maximum tensions between North Korea and the United States, Pierre Haski paints an unprecedented portrait of the...

Long ago, Geamăna was a Romanian village in the Apuseni Mountains, home to about 1000 people. Today, only the church spire rises from the...

Florian Hartung and Dirk Pohlmann have reconstructed a previously unknown dimension of the collaboration between Nazis and the CIA in the Cold War....