Military Dictatorship Movies

August 29, 1979, Talavera Bruce Penal Institute, Bangu, Rio de Janeiro. After serving eight years in prison, Inês Etienne Romeu, the only...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Triggered by congressman Jair Bolsonaro’s homage to the torturer Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, during president Dilma Rousseff’s...

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

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