Dictatorship Movies

Manuela dreams of winning the "best folkloric dress" contest in the commemoration of Independence Day at school. Meanwhile, her brother Gabo takes...

In Germán Araujo, director Aldo Novick revives the memory of a journalist who defied censorship during one of Uruguay's darkest periods....

The film tells the story of Fernando Quintero (Gustavo Camacho), revolutionary leader who, after the fall of the dictatorship of Marcos Perez...

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

In an empty warehouse, four women remember the rooms of the house where they were tortured during the last dictatorship. After testifying about their...

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...

Inês Etienne Romeu was an opponent to the Brazilian's dictatorship. She was kidnapped, tortured and raped in jail, where she stayed for almost...

A documentary made with homemade videos of the spanish exiled due to the dictatorship in Spain from 1939 to 1977.

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

"Chicha, Hope and Pain" addresses the emblematic figure of Chicha Mariani, founder of the "Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo." It is structured in...

The story of the University of Brasília, since it was only a project in Darcy Ribeiro's head until the fateful events in August 1968 when its...

A young woman in Stalin's Russia faces a life-or-death choice after carrying out a daring act of protest.

A short film produced between September and October of 1969, during the course of the Brazilian military dictatorship. It's authorship remained...

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

This is the story of two teenage women affected by violence and the painful journey to become full and liberated. One, Maruja is a young rape victim....

Estado de Excepção is a documentary about CITAC (Coimbra Theater Initiation Circle), a university theater group, revealing history...