political persecution movies

Escape from Pretoria (2020)
7.226 / 10

Drama, History, Thriller

South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime,...

Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
7.566 / 10

Drama, History

Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist...

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)
7 / 10

Documentary

An account of the many tribulations that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, known for his subversive art and political activism, endured between 2008 and...

The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun (1974)
0 / 10

Drama, War

A war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg

Broken Keys (2023)
8.5 / 10

Drama, War

In a war-torn Middle Eastern city where music has been banned by Islamic extremists, Karim, a brilliant musician, struggles to rebuild his destroyed...

Tomorrow We Are Free (2019)
6.6 / 10

Drama

Iran 1979. The Islamic Revolution is shaking up the country. Dissident Omid, who lived for several years in the German Democratic Republic with his...

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...

My Favorite War (2020)
6.7 / 10

Animation, Documentary, History

Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in a distant future, lives in Latvia under the...

La caza de brujas (1967)
5.4 / 10

Drama

When, in a very strict Catholic school, a teacher enters a bathroom and surprises two students engaged in forbidden sexual practices, some of their...

Ravensbrück: The forgotten camp (2020)
6.5 / 10

History, War, Documentary

Located nearly 80 kilometres north of Berlin, Germany, the former municipality of Ravensbrück was home to a prison between 1939 and 1945 that became...

Los últimos españoles de Mauthausen (2020)
0 / 10

Documentary, History

The story of the more than nine thousand Spaniards who were interned in the Nazi concentration camps, through the testimony of a group of survivors...

Song for My Children (2022)
0 / 10

Documentary, Music

An elderly choir group brings back erased violent history by singing songs that were written in prison and have been silenced for more than 50 years.

301 (2008)
0 / 10

Documentary

Resistance (2007)
0 / 10

Documentary, History, Music

In the panorama of Kurdish music, Koma Berxwedan (Group Resistance) is one of the most interesting, innovative, experimental groups. To a deep love...

La Plata Rugby Club (2014)
0 / 10

Documentary

An historical documentary that rereads the recent death of Jorge Videla, bloodthirsty dictator of Argentina in the 70’s, telling the disappearance,...

Posted by: İlhan Sami Çomak (2016)
7 / 10

Documentary

The story puts İlhan Çomak at the center, even though he is not physically present in the film. It focuses on the 21 years that İlhan spent in...