Political Repression Movies

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first...

More than twenty years after Vladimir Putin came to supreme power in Russia on May 7, 2000, Russian society is deeply divided. A young, modern...

A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary trip into the...

Short animation film by Ricardo Jabardo on police violence.

In 1995, during the Angolan civil war, Nayola sets out in search of her missing husband.

Damascus, Oregon, United States. Julie Keith finds a baffling message hidden in a pack of decorative items, a desperate plea for help, written by...

From Scotland to Ecuador, passing through Canada, Spain and Angola, 21 young Cubans who grew up in 9 countries outside the island tell their...

The true story of the seven weeks that changed China forever. On June 4, 1989, pro-democracy demonstrations were violently and bloodily repressed....

During a political purge, the Albanian government orders the disbanding of a military unit whose horses are also considered traitors.

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in...

A relentless chronicle of the tragedy of the Uighurs, an ethnic minority of some eleven million people who live in the Xinjiang region of northwest...

A short film by Giulio Questi.

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago is published in the Soviet Union, because it...

An elderly choir group brings back erased violent history by singing songs that were written in prison and have been silenced for more than 50 years.

Set in July 1793 during the outbreak of the French Revolution and the unleashing of the Reign of Terror, a young girl from Caen named Charlotte...

After his father's sudden death, 'Balu', a reticent, tries to survive in his day to day life..

A history of the political and social repression carried out by the ruthless regime of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco between 1936 and 1975 that...

Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony...

South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country...