Dictatorship Movies

While Germany sits as one of the major democratic models, an ex-prisoner of the Stasi delivers from his former cell a frightening testimony that quest...

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

Containing rare footage and recorded conversations, this documentary about "the plunder of a nation" hosted by ABS-CBN's Angelo Castro, Jr. looks into...

Audiovisual experiment, on the role of photography and its authors, during the last civic-military dictatorship in Argentina. A documentary that makes...

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

A hundred letters written by Portuguese women during the Salazar dictatorship were found by chance in a second-hand bookshop. By confronting today the...

21 sequence shots depict moments in a defining night of the Battle of Rua Maria Antônia, in October 1968, from the point of view of the students and p...

The film tells the story of Fernando Quintero (Gustavo Camacho),revolutionary leader who, after the fall of the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez,...

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. Aft...

This documentary follows Juan Carlos's life through archive footage and exclusive interviews with the king himself giving his opinion and thoughts to...

In Maija Blåfield’s documentary, eight former North Koreans talk about what it was like to watch illegal films in a closed society. In addition to the...

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 courageo...

A documentary about Finnish twin sisters, one of whom disappeared in Argentina in 1977.

It follows Chilean writer Antonio Skármeta as he celebrates the end of the autocrats. Cheerful farewell rituals accompany others facing political pers...