Dictatorship Movies

  • 2011
    Two & Two

    Two & Two

    Two & Two

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    In a drab, anonymous gray school governed by a strict authoritarian regime, an apparently unremarkable day is turned on its head following a...

    Two & Two
  • 1989
    Esmeralda Bay

    Esmeralda Bay

    Esmeralda Bay

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    A priest secretly leads rebels in their struggle against the corrupt military dictatorship of the Central American country of Puerto Santo.

    Esmeralda Bay
  • 2022
    Chile '76

    Chile '76

    Chile '76

    6.9772022HD

    Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen...

    Chile '76
  • 2019
    The Silence of Others

    The Silence of Others

    The Silence of Others

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    The story of the tortuous struggle against the silence of the victims of the dictatorship imposed by General Franco after the victory of the rebel...

    The Silence of Others
  • 1986
    Night of the Pencils

    Night of the Pencils

    Night of the Pencils

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    The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young...

    Night of the Pencils
  • 2023
    1988

    1988

    1988

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    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...

    1988
  • 2016
    The White King

    The White King

    The White King

    5.42016HD

    Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father,...

    The White King
  • 2004
    Olga

    Olga

    Olga

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    Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the...

    Olga
  • 1950
    Crisis

    Crisis

    Crisis

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    An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.

    Crisis
  • 2017
    Cuba and the Cameraman

    Cuba and the Cameraman

    Cuba and the Cameraman

    7.52017HD

    This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades.

    Cuba and the Cameraman
  • 2016
    The Lovers and the Despot

    The Lovers and the Despot

    The Lovers and the Despot

    6.8832016HD

    Hong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following orders from dictator Kim Jong-il.

    The Lovers and the Despot
  • 2013
    Nazis in the CIA

    Nazis in the CIA

    Nazis in the CIA

    6.42013HD

    Florian Hartung and Dirk Pohlmann have reconstructed a previously unknown dimension of the collaboration between Nazis and the CIA in the Cold War....

    Nazis in the CIA
  • 1975
    The Battle of Chile: Part I

    The Battle of Chile: Part I

    The Battle of Chile: Part I

    7.21975HD

    The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of...

    The Battle of Chile: Part I
  • 2020
    Black Box Syria: The Dirty War

    Black Box Syria: The Dirty War

    Black Box Syria: The Dirty War

    82020HD

    A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due to the competing interests of the many factions...

    Black Box Syria: The Dirty War
  • 1988
    The South

    The South

    The South

    6.31988HD

    After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders...

    The South
  • 2015
    The Pearl Button

    The Pearl Button

    The Pearl Button

    6.92015HD

    The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives...

    The Pearl Button
  • 2025
    The Battle

    The Battle

    The Battle

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    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...

    The Battle
  • 1970
    Fireflies at El Mozote

    Fireflies at El Mozote

    Fireflies at El Mozote

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    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...

    Fireflies at El Mozote
  • 1967
    Entranced Earth

    Entranced Earth

    Entranced Earth

    7.31967HD

    Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the...

    Entranced Earth
  • 2021
    Montenegro: A Land Divided

    Montenegro: A Land Divided

    Montenegro: A Land Divided

    62021HD

    Montenegro is the newest European country with a proud history, one that is being falsified for current political purposes, thus creating an...

    Montenegro: A Land Divided