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Kanopy
85
7.7
/11649/
79
/265/
74
/199/
4.0
/28376/
100
/13/
89
/128/

The Official Story (1985)
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
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Amazon Prime Video
82
7.6
/35757/
77
/1555/
78
/720/
4.0
/157246/
96
/71/
91
/55/
78
/11/
cc age 14+

Argentina 1985 (2022)
In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.
poster
81
7.4
/27047/
73
/565/
72
/460/
3.8
/37440/
93
/132/
80
/421/
81
/36/

No (2012)
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.
poster
79
7.7
/25388/
75
/472/
72
/415/
3.9
/21137/
94
/35/
85
/269/
78
/10/
cc age 14+

Missing (1982)
Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.
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MUBI
79
7.3
/125128/
72
/6174/
70
/2076/
3.8
/271528/
94
/254/
79
/721/
88
/43/
cc age 15+

The Death of Stalin (2017)
When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to the top, the question remains — just who is running the government?
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Fandor
78
7.4
/3862/
72
/122/
67
/49/
3.6
/2520/
92
/59/
87
/211/
77
/23/

The Weather Underground (2002)
The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.
poster
Kanopy
82
78
7.6
/6512/
76
/217/
73
/162/
4.0
/15418/
100
/49/
84
/108/
91
/19/

Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.
poster
80
77
7.7
/8274/
75
/247/
73
/195/
4.2
/25696/
92
/12/
86
/231/

Punishment Park (1971)
In this fictional documentary, U.S. prisons are at capacity, and President Nixon declares a state of emergency. All new prisoners, most of whom are connected to the antiwar movement, are now given the choice of jail time or spending three days in Punishment Park, where they will be hunted for sport by federal authorities. The prisoners invariably choose the latter option, but learn that, between the desert heat and the brutal police officers, their chances of survival are slim.
poster
77
7.6
/19732/
76
/347/
74
/344/
4.0
/39377/
81
/31/
69
/451/
67
/17/
cc age 14+

Running on Empty (1988)
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.6
/3058/
77
/98/
69
/73/
3.9
/6250/
93
/46/
80
/10/
80
/18/

The Pearl Button (2015)
The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.
poster
Fandor
80
75
7.7
/13127/
77
/187/
77
/209/
3.8
/19841/
87
/38/
91
/351/
76
/19/

Machuca (2004)
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.
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Fandor
75
6.7
/751/
69
/46/
69
/17/
3.6
/1946/
93
/61/
59
/9/
87
/22/

Bisbee '17 (2018)
It’s 2017 in Bisbee, Arizona, an old copper-mining town just miles from the Mexican border. The town’s close-knit community prepares to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bisbee’s darkest hour: the infamous Bisbee Deportation of 1917, during which 1,200 striking miners were violently taken from their homes, banished to the middle of the desert, and left to die. Townspeople confront this violent, misunderstood past by staging dramatic recreations of the escalating strike. These dramatized scenes are based on subjective versions of the story and “directed,” in a sense, by residents with conflicting views of the event. Deeply personal segments torn from family history build toward a massive restaging of the deportation itself on the exact day of its 100th anniversary.
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Kanopy
75
7.2
/2200/
71
/34/
67
/36/
3.7
/2211/
81
/59/
83
/48/
78
/22/

Lumumba (2000)
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgian overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.
poster
Kanopy
75
7.6
/2133/
69
/53/
69
/28/
3.5
/775/
95
/57/
78
/58/
72
/23/

The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)
This riveting documentary depicts former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as a warmonger responsible for military cover-ups in Vietnam, Cambodia and East Timor, as well as the assassination of a Chilean leader in 1970. Based on a book by journalist Christopher Hitchens, the film includes interviews with historians, political analysts and such journalists as New York Times writer William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter.
poster
75
7.8
/5805/
73
/191/
71
/88/
3.7
/5089/
79
/20/

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006)
Featuring never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where he orchestrated a mass suicide via tainted punch.
poster
Kanopy
74
6.9
/4660/
70
/275/
65
/81/
3.5
/6286/
96
/47/
76
/35/
78
/16/

Welcome to Leith (2015)
In September 2012, the tiny prairie town of Leith, North Dakota, sees its population of 24 grow by one. As the new resident's behavior becomes more threatening, tensions soar, and the residents desperately look for ways to expel their unwanted neighbor.
poster
Kanopy
73
6.7
/2186/
62
/79/
70
/50/
3.5
/9463/
91
/56/
96
/9/
78
/19/

Chile '76 (2022)
Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
72
7.2
/527/
71
/27/
69
/12/
3.6
/1001/
83
/23/
75
/4/
66
/12/

By Sidney Lumet (2015)
An analysis of director Sidney Lumet's work (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Before The Devil Knows You're Dead) in his own words, based on a five-day interview recorded shortly before his death.
poster
71
6.6
/7409/
68
/79/
61
/91/
3.5
/7022/
77
/31/
70
/259/
75
/20/

I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot him. This is Valerie's story.
poster
67
6.4
/2591/
67
/55/
57
/37/
3.4
/1905/
88
/16/
53
/19/

The Big Fix (1978)
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.
poster
The Roku Channel
72
64
7.3
/3714/
74
/106/
68
/59/
3.5
/3602/
72
/60/
78
/618/
69
/21/

American Hardcore (2006)
Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documentary debut is a chronicle of the underground hardcore punk years from 1979 to 1986. Interviews and rare live footage from artists such as Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, SS Decontrol and the Dead Kennedys.
poster
62
6.4
/1714/
75
/81/
52
/17/
3.2
/991/
25
/8/
82
/62/

The Inkwell (1994)
The Inkwell is about a 16-year-old boy coming of age on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1976.
poster
76
60
7.3
/2450/
74
/61/
70
/70/
3.7
/9059/
93
/56/

Night of the Pencils (1986)
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 students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.
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Plex
70
60
7.1
/3831/
69
/64/
65
/75/
3.5
/2658/
67
/15/
79
/89/

Chronicle of an Escape (2006)
The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he is tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he doesn't have, Tamburrini fully expects to be killed. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo and Tano are being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dives out a window during a rainstorm.
poster
Kanopy
78
60
7.3
/2187/
76
/83/
72
/56/
3.8
/2934/
100
/13/
77
/15/
76
/10/

Horses of God (2013)
The film follows two brothers over the course of a decade. While they begin as kids in search of thrills in the sprawling slums of Morocco’s Sidi Moumen, we witness their gradual, and ultimately shocking, radicalisation.
poster
Plex
70
60
6.9
/3950/
70
/189/
64
/75/
3.3
/1585/
81
/44/

Wolf (2004)
Based on a true story. In the 70s, during the last stages of Franco's dictatorship, Txema, a basque construction worker, is arrested because of his connection to some terrorists who have just committed a murder. The secret service see in him an ideal candidate to infiltrate the terrorist band ETA and become a mole, so they try to offer him a deal if he will do so.
poster
67
59
6.7
/11267/
69
/171/
62
/139/
3.2
/1346/
75
/141/
71
/783/
62
/32/
cc age 15+

Catch a Fire (2006)
The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.
poster
Hoopla
59
58
6.2
/21605/
63
/802/
56
/340/
2.8
/2109/
53
/17/
65
/311/

Cleanskin (2012)
While working undercover as a bodyguard to arms dealer Harry, former-soldier-turned-secret-service-agent Ewan survives a bloody shootout with a member of an Islamic terrorist cell who steals Harry's briefcase full of Semtex explosives and escapes. Ewan's spymasters task Ewan with hunting down the cell members and retrieving the briefcase.
poster
57
5.9
/6915/
54
/185/
52
/138/
3.2
/10166/
45
/20/
63
/221/

Sweet Movie (1974)
The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
poster
fuboTV
57
7.0
/59443/
73
/3812/
72
/1963/
3.4
/37657/
29
/49/
61
/191/
33
/15/
cc age 17+

Colonia (2015)
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
poster
Kanopy
78
55
6.5
/2797/
63
/65/
61
/59/
3.4
/4099/
91
/35/
61
/31/
72
/14/

Post Mortem (2010)
In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
poster
78
55
8.1
/2592/
80
/42/
75
/41/
3.7
/689/
75
/12/
87
/231/

The War on Democracy (2007)
Set both in Latin America and the United States, the film explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. Pilger says that the film "...tells a universal story... analysing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind its venerable myths. It allows us to understand the true nature of the so-called "war on terror". According to Pilger, the film’s message is that the greed and power of empire is not invincible and that people power is always the "seed beneath the snow".
poster
54
5.6
/1903/
51
/35/
57
/24/
2.9
/2663/
62
/13/
22
/37/

Drive, He Said (1971)
Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, Gabriel, who may have dropped out from school and become a protestor, wants desperately not to get drafted for Vietnam.
poster
78
54
8.2
/1435/
79
/45/
76
/38/
4.3
/4872/
67

The Battle of Chile: Part II (1976)
Chronicles the events immediately surrounding the CIA- supported coup itself.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
72
54
7.1
/1771/
70
/28/
65
/37/
3.7
/1165/
87
/46/
67
/124/
75
/17/

Terror's Advocate (2007)
A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla, exploring how Vergès assisted, from the 1960s onwards, anti-imperialist terrorist cells operating in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Participants interviewed include Algerian nationalists Yacef Saadi, Zohra Drif, Djamila Bouhired and Abderrahmane Benhamida, Khmer Rouge members Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, once far-left activists Hans-Joachim Klein and Magdalena Kopp, terrorist Carlos the Jackal, lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, neo-Nazi Ahmed Huber, Palestinian politician Bassam Abu Sharif, Lebanese politician Karim Pakradouni, political cartoonist Siné, former spy Claude Moniquet, novelist and ghostwriter Lionel Duroy, and investigative journalist Oliver Schröm.
poster
Kanopy
74
53
7.1
/2642/
69
/66/
65
/61/
3.9
/7422/
93
/27/
81
/2/
68
/9/

Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.
poster
75
52
7.3
/3037/
69
/60/
67
/90/
3.7
/2636/
92
/17/

Garage Olimpo (1999)
Maria is a militant activist in an organisation opposed to the military dictatorship in Argentina. She teaches reading and writing in the shanty towns and lives with her mother in an old and run-down residence. One morning, Maria is carried off, in front of her mother, by a military squad dressed in civilian clothes. The young woman is taken to the Olimpo garage, one of the numerous torture chambers which haunt Buenos Aires to the general indifference of the population. In order to make Maria talk, Tigre, the head of the centre, gives her to one of his best men, Felix.
poster
74
50
7.6
/1175/
73
/44/
73
/34/
4.1
/3729/
67

The Battle of Chile: Part III (1979)
Guzmán’s final installment shifts from covering the actions of Allende’s opponents to those who battled to revive & promote their toppled leader’s vision for a new Chile.
poster
Kanopy
64
48
7.0
/2794/
68
/50/
69
/59/
3.6
/4058/
45
/11/
69
/16/
55
/9/

Clandestine Childhood (2012)
Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only has one name. Based on true events, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is one about love.
poster
Kanopy
74
47
7.4
/852/
68
/40/
65
/23/
3.5
/369/
97
/29/
84
/78/
65
/15/

Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004)
You Can't Be Neutral documents the life and times of the historian, activist and author of the best selling classic "A People's History of the United States". Featuring rare archival materials, interviews with Howard Zinn as well as colleagues and friends including Noam Chomsky, Marian Wright Edelman, Daniel Ellsberg, Tom Hayden and Alice Walker.
poster
Kanopy
78
47
7.2
/1076/
75
/40/
71
/120/
3.7
/2633/
100
/9/
80
/2/

Santiago, Italia (2018)
After the coup d'État of the Democratic government of Allende, the embassy of Italy in Santiago played a major role in helping the opposers of the regime, and extradited many of them to Italy.
poster
77
47
7.8
/3861/
73
/63/
76
/34/
3.9
/5362/
82
/2/

Terrorism and Kebab (1992)
Ahmed heads to Tahrir compound to extract papers to move his son to another school. There he clashes with the administrative obstacles. He suddenly finds himself involved in carrying a weapon and taking hostages at the government building and becomes a terrorist in the process.
poster
75
47
8.1
/1817/
78
/65/
72
/49/
4.3
/7024/
60
/10/

The Battle of Chile: Part I (1975)
The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
poster
Criterion Channel
45
6.0
/4531/
51
/95/
56
/75/
3.4
/4596/
12
/1/

I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.
poster
52
44
5.4
/3090/
56
/107/
54
/52/
2.9
/2423/
38
/8/
56
/215/

Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007)
High School grad and all American gal, Anna, finds her purpose and herself after she hooks up with the radical feminists in The Itty Bitty Titty Committee.
poster
Criterion Channel
56
42
6.0
/1767/
50
/48/
54
/35/
3.4
/1897/
50
/26/
55
/92/

I Am Curious (Blue) (1968)
The same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as I am Curious (Yellow), but with some different scenes and a different political slant. The political focus in Blue is personal relationships, religion, prisons and sex. Blue omits much of the class consciousness and non-violence interviews of the first version. Yellow and Blue are the colors of the Swedish flag.
poster
60
42
6.4
/2523/
66
/108/
59
/77/
3.0
/1923/
71
/7/
41
/3/

Kóblic (2016)
Colonia Helena, Argentina. The mysterious Tomás Kóblic, a former Navy pilot, works as a fumigator while dealing with his dark past and the intrigues of the corrupt police commissioner…
poster
69
40
7.5
/739/
64
/17/
66
/21/
3.3
/369/
73
/15/
80
/43/
59
/7/

Cautiva (2004)
Cristina's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school in Buenos Aires and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the '70s. Questioning everything she once thought true, Cristina embarks on a journey to find her true identity. Meeting others like herself, the young girl soon discovers the real-life horrors of Argentina's relatively recent past and the nightmare that claimed tens of thousands of lives during the country's "dirty war."


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