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...

Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen...

The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the...

During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio...

The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the...

An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.

Hong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following orders from dictator Kim Jong-il.

This documentary tells of the extraordinary rise of Jair Bolsonaro, from relative obscurity to the ultimate seat of South American power. Told...

After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders...

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

Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.

Documentary short film covering two survivors of the argentinian military dictatorship.

The story is set in the 1970s during the period of military dictatorship. Schools were frequently closed and society seemed to face bleak prospects...

A priest secretly leads rebels in their struggle against the corrupt military dictatorship of the Central American country of Puerto Santo.

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...

In Western Germany, two brothers and their organization help people escape to non-communist Germany. A policeman chasing them falls in love with the...

Biographical portrait of the labor movement and left wing movement in Uruguay, "Conversations with Turiansky" combines two stories. The first...

Two Danish comedians join the director on a trip to North Korea, where they have been allowed access under the pretext of wanting to perform a...

2035, United States of Europe. Some humans are not sustainable anymore.

In the near future, the world seems to function in an efficient and controlled way...