Military Dictatorship Movies

Carlos Eugênio Paz recalls his participation in the armed struggle against the military dictatorship between the 1960s and 1980s. Using the...

Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a car, while the director reads out documents in...

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

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

With no choice, César faced leaving his family behind, quitting his job and joining the Army. In an unprecedented chain of events he became...

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

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

"Subversivas" is a documentary that reveals the brazilian military dictatorship from the perspective of women. Teresa Angelo, Gilse Cosenza, Thereza...

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

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

In 1986, the Uruguayan Parliament passed a law granting amnesty for all crimes and human rights violations committed by the military and police...

"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 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 woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government.

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

Brazil, 1964, military dictatorship. The young Juca lives in countryside and is influenced by an outsider Uruguayan smuggler. This man happens to...