political repression movies page 3

Danube (2021)
4.3 / 10

Documentary, History

Argentina, 1968. In the midst of the Cold War, the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía (1966-70) organizes the 9th Mar del Plata Film Festival in...

Republic of Silence (2022)
9 / 10

Documentary, History

They grew up in the land of dictators and surveillance, where images are censored, photos are burned, thoughts are discreet, and mouths are kept...

I Invite You to My Execution (2019)
7 / 10

Documentary, History

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago is published in the Soviet Union, because it...

China: The Uighur Tragedy (2022)
6.5 / 10

Documentary

A relentless chronicle of the tragedy of the Uighurs, an ethnic minority of some eleven million people who live in the Xinjiang region of northwest...

Words for an End of the World (2020)
6.4 / 10

Documentary, History

Spain, April 14, 1931. The Second Republic is born. From the beginning, the writer Miguel de Unamuno is considered one of the ethical pillars of the...

The New Greatness Case (2022)
6 / 10

Documentary

Anya was an ordinary Moscow teenager who found a chat group of her choice online. They talked about animals, the stars and social issues. A man...

The State Against Mandela and the Others (2018)
6.8 / 10

Documentary, History, Animation

South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country...

From Atatürk to Erdoğan: Building a Nation (2019)
6 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as Atatürk, the Father of the Turks, founder of...

Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman (2018)
7 / 10

Documentary, History

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental...

Archiviato - L'obbligatorietà dell'azione penale in Valsusa (2018)
8 / 10

Documentary

The History of the Civil War (1921)
3.3 / 10

Documentary, History

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the...

Russia vs. Russia (2022)
7.5 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie

More than twenty years after Vladimir Putin came to supreme power in Russia on May 7, 2000, Russian society is deeply divided. A young, modern...

Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship (2018)
6.8 / 10

Documentary

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...

Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field: The Documentary (2019)
7 / 10

Documentary

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was released, director Ofelio Linares Montt shot Zombies in...

The Conscience (2021)
10 / 10

Drama, History, Thriller

Petrograd, Soviet Union, 1920s. Boris Letush, devastated by a personal tragedy, feels the need to put his conscience and his principles before the...

The Jewish-Roman Wars (2019)
7 / 10

Documentary, Animation, History, TV Movie

In the first century, after the death of Herod the Great, Judea goes through a long period of turbulence due to the actions of the corrupt Roman...

Anniversary of the Revolution (1918)
6.8 / 10

Documentary, History

A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the...

Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe (2019)
6.5 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union...

Myanmar Diaries (2022)
7.7 / 10

Documentary

How does it feel to be forgotten by the world? A powerful collective cry denouncing the crimes of the military dictatorship installed in Myanmar...

The Death of a Horse (1992)
6.25 / 10

Drama

During a political purge, the Albanian government orders the disbanding of a military unit whose horses are also considered traitors.