Dictatorship Movies

Resonating Surfaces is triple portrait, of a city, a woman and an attitude to life. For the personal story of Suely Rolnik, who is a Brazilian psychoa...

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...

It follows Chilean writer Antonio Skármeta as he celebrates the end of the autocrats. Cheerful farewell rituals accompany others facing political pers...

In Maija Blåfield’s documentary, eight former North Koreans talk about what it was like to watch illegal films in a closed society. In addition to the...

Biographical portrait of the labor movement and left wing movement in Uruguay, "Conversations with Turiansky" combines two stories. The first portrays...

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

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

A couple is arrested and tortured after taking part in a political demonstration, being sentenced to death.

In the early ‘70s, in Argentina, a group of homosexuals decided to confront the status quo. With testimonies from its survivors as its denouncement so...

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

While Germany sits as one of the major democratic models, an ex-prisoner of the Stasi delivers from his former cell a frightening testimony that quest...

Khian, Pim and Karn, young rebellious students, work together to make a protest to uncover the corruption in their school by folding hundreds of paper...

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...

The horrifying story of what went on inside General Pinochet's secret prisons.

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...

Documentary that shows the events that culminated in the deposition of President João Goulart, on March 31, 1964, and the implementation of the milita...