Military Dictatorship Movies

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

A collection of short films by five Thai directors imagining their country ten years into the future.

In 1981, seven Libyan exiles formed the core opposition group to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Thirty years later, they are back to their country only to...

Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a car, while the director reads out documents in...

Lissette's favorite aunt Adriana, who lives in Australia, is arrested in 2007 while visiting her family in Chile and accused of having worked for...

“Rio 2096 – A Story of Love and Fury” is an animated film that portrays the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the...

Financial problems in a religious school for girls force the government to interfere. While waiting in the conference hall to communicate the fact to...

A group of young politicians campaigning against an authoritarian constitution speak up, spark hope and ignite a once-in-a-generation movement in...

Faced with a lack of prosecution of those accused of crimes against humanity committed during Argentina’s military dictatorship, family members...

A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with first hand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta...

Filled with raunchy laughs, this documentary compiles outrageous scenes from sex-comedies that shaped Brazil's "pornochanchada" boom of the 1970s.

The series tells the story of the São Paulo International Film Festival, one of the most traditional cultural events in Latin America. For 48...

A police drama set in an unidentified and oppressed South American country among a group of conspirators. The main characters are two sisters Soledad...

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

While traveling undercover throughout Burma, Henry Rollins exposes the country's repressive military dictatorship.

Based on a real event, this is the spectacular escape of seven prisoners in 1991 from the Villa Devoto prison in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the...

With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes of the coup in Chile that took place on...