Military Dictatorship Movies

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...

A Citizen Under Investigation is the great Egyptian director Henry Barakat's last film, and a damning indictment of Egypt's ruling military...

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

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

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

With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes of the coup in Chile that took place on...

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...

With no choice, César faced leaving his family behind, quitting his job and joining the Army. In an unprecedented chain of events he became...

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

Maria is a militant activist in an organisation opposed to the military dictatorship in Argentina. She teaches reading and writing in the shanty...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...