Military Dictatorship Movies

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

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...

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...

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

Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, is going to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most...

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...

Stunning espionage documentary on the US conspiracy that led to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson original...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes of the coup in Chile that took place on...

Journalist Dermi Azevedo has never stopped fighting for human rights and now, three decades after the end of the military dictatorship in Brazil,...

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

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