Military Dictatorship Movies

"Golpe a golpe" (Family coup) was a Chilean television sitcom from the 1970s and 1980s. In this series, the family of the stern anti-communist...

In times of dictatorship Argentina (1977), a young journalist suffers attacks of paranoia when he discovers suspicious persons , which could be...

In the present, in Spain, Miguel's mind, affected by a brain disease, seems cloistered in the past, in Argentina, in the seventies, when he risked...

Lieutenant General T.J.A. Heikkilä travels to the Republic of Sierranueva together with his military servant Tlaca and Captain Silvio. The trio...

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

Brazil, 1964, military dictatorship. The young Juca lives in countryside and is influenced by an outsider Uruguayan smuggler. This man happens to...

The Documentary tells the story of Jane Vanini from the author's reflections on her militancy-building process. Starting with the meeting of the two...

Amid the civil-military dictatorship implanted with the 1964 coup, Sergio Muniz had the idea of making a documentary about the action of the Death...

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...

Argentine filmmaker Andrés Habegger embarks on a deeply personal journey in this documentary, seeking to recover memories and information...

A plea against the government of General Hugo Banzer (1971-1978) and specifically against the Bolivian military during the seven-year dictatorship....

A striking political activist and refugee from Paraguay escapes to Paris and falls in love with a rich law student changing their lives forever. The...

This short documentary explores how the Ilustrada section of the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper had to fight back against censorship from the military...

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

After decades of fascist rule in Chile, Patricio Guzmán returns to his country to screen his documentary The Battle of Chile.

In 2018, the Nicaraguan police brutally repressed anti-government protests organised by high school students. K., a 17-year-old girl who was...

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