Military Dictatorship Movies

The Punta de Rieles prison was where most female political prisoners were incarcerated during the dictatorship in Uruguay. The way up to the building...

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...

Filled with raunchy laughs, this documentary compiles outrageous scenes from sex-comedies that shaped Brazil's "pornochanchada" boom of the 1970s.

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

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

Amid the civil-military dictatorship implanted with the 1964 coup, Sergio Muniz had the idea of making a documentary about the action of the Death...

In times of dictatorship Argentina (1977), a young journalist suffers attacks of paranoia when he discovers suspicious persons , which could be...

A group of young politicians campaigning against an authoritarian constitution speak up, spark hope and ignite a once-in-a-generation movement in...

Four siblings, whose father disappeared during Brazilian Military Dictatorship, report their childhood during the regime.

An account of the childhood and youth of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, and how the hard experiences he...

In a country subjected to a cruel dictatorship, a political activist is savagely tortured, unleashing the indignation of certain leftist...

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

At the end of the last civil-military dictatorship, a camouflage operation took place in the Information Service, an office of the former Rosario...

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

With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes of the coup in Chile that took place on...

For decades, Eva Braun was seen as Adolph Hitler's "dumb blonde" - just a pretty distraction for the Nazi dictator. But more recently, historians...