Dictatorship Movies

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

The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the military...

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

This documentary tells of the extraordinary rise of Jair Bolsonaro, from relative obscurity to the ultimate seat of South American power. Told through...

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, Peter,...

Two Danish comedians join the director on a trip to North Korea, where they have been allowed access under the pretext of wanting to perform a vaudevi...

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

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

In Brazil, in 1978, under the dictatorship, the country lives the euphoria of disco fever and the fantasy life of Dancin' Days, a prime time soap. Aft...

The story is set in the 1970s during the period of military dictatorship. Schools were frequently closed and society seemed to face bleak prospects on...

2035, United States of Europe. Some humans are not sustainable anymore.

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

Everything you've ever wanted to know about Saddam Hussein (but were afraid to ask).

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

Ceci, a seven year old girl, has to keep a huge secret, but she doesn't completely understand what is the secret about. The life of her family depends...

In Western Germany, two brothers and their organization help people escape to non-communist Germany. A policeman chasing them falls in love with the s...

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

The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the National...

It’s the last dictatorship of Europe, caught in a Soviet time-warp, where the secret police is still called the KGB and the president rules by fear. D...

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 i...