Dictatorship Movies

Set in the Philippines during martial law, the film follows the Bartolome family’s struggles over several years.

In 1931, Germany was awarded the Olympic Games in the hope this would draw them into the international community and world peace would be promoted...

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...

The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young...

The key individuals of the Iraqi-Nazi connection.

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

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....

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist reformer, now obsessed with the idea of power,...

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,...

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

In Russia, criticizing the war in Ukraine or Vladimir Putin’s regime has become a crime. Thousands of ordinary citizens are being arrested,...

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

Margherita Sarfatti, Mussolini's lover and advisor, was a woman who exerted a great influence on the Duce and on Italian cultural life. Through...

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

There was a time in Argentina, not so long ago, when the army wasn't only one, official, but many and made up by civilians. In those times of...

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio...

An ambassador from an outer (and rich) space comes to visit a poor planet, where he ends up being kidnapped.

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