Military Dictatorship Movies

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

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...

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

Colonia Helena, Argentina. The mysterious Tomás Kóblic, a former Navy pilot, works as a fumigator while dealing with his dark past and...

With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes of the coup in Chile that took place on...

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

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

In a country subjected to a cruel dictatorship, a political activist is savagely tortured, unleashing the indignation of certain leftist...

A woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government.

The story of the University of Brasília, since it was only a project in Darcy Ribeiro's head until the fateful events in August 1968 when its...

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...

After decades of fascist rule in Chile, Patricio Guzmán returns to his country to screen his documentary The Battle of Chile.

Germán is Argentine by birth, but has lived in Spain for thirty years with his wife Rosa and his daughter Lucía. On the day of the...

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...

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

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

The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government into a state of disarray.

Amid the civil-military dictatorship implanted with the 1964 coup, Sergio Muniz had the idea of making a documentary about the action of the Death...