Dictatorship Movies

In the winter of 1988, in the depths of the Iraq/Iran war, the border town of Halabja was attacked by chemical weapons with all its people and their d...

While the country is under the yoke of a military junta and corrupt priests preach the apocalypse, a lawless, eccentric family – a kind of Bonnie & Cl...

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

Barcelona, 1966. Laia is a Law student at the University of Barcelona. She works part time in the University library to help cover her tuition, and wr...

Telmo is a retired theater director that realizes he doesn't remember the time he spent kept in jail during the military dictatorship in Brazil. He de...

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

Under a dictatorship that has banned music, a man hides a record until he is caught. Whilst paying for his crimes he stumbles across a repository of c...

Life under an oppressive dictatorship. Where citizens surrender themselves to the regime, become the part of the system and let go their freedom and a...

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...

Five Argentinian women, with missing relatives from the military dictatorship that ruled the country, explain their emotions and feelings about all th...

An unemployed man wanders the streets of Santiago de Chile in the 80s (Pinochet's Chile),looking for a chance to be a hero. In an old cinema in the c...

A chronicle on the days without Jorge Julio López, key witness and complainant on the first trial on genocide in Argentina, dated in 2006. López, who...

The political leader Alberto Carnevali, secretly returns to his country to plot against the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez. The Intense subversi...

The clash of a libertarian school with the military dictatorship in the 60s. An exciting and little-known page in the history of public education in B...

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

An ambassador from an outer (and rich) space comes to visit a poor planet, where he ends up being kidnapped.