Military Dictatorship Movies

At the end of the brazilian military dictatorship, a bored elevator operator gets her dull work day shaken by the pursuit of marxist revolutionaries...

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

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

Poetic images emerge from everyday life, interweaving with narratives that recall traces of events from the last civic-ecclesiastical-military...

Explores the life and work of English journalist Robert Cox, the former editor of "The Buenos Aires Herald" daily newspaper, whose investigative...

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

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

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

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

In the spring of 1974, a camera team from Studio H&S succeeded against the explicit orders of the Junta’s Chancellery, entered into two large...

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

"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...

The long fight over the land, which demolished the wall between master and serf, continues to divide Peru to this day. But the 1969 agrarian reform...

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

Córdoba, Argentina, 1976. It was an August night when soldiers dressed as civilians broke into Pablo and Vera's house. They must do everything...

Lissette's favorite aunt Adriana, who lives in Australia, is arrested in 2007 while visiting her family in Chile and accused of having worked for...

Koburi the Japanese Army Officer portrayed in Sunset at Chaopraya's earlier films dies and the film then goes on to the future of his child and his...