Dictator Movies

A short documentary about the making of "The Great Dictator."

Under a dictatorship that has banned music, a man hides a record until he is caught. Whilst paying for his crimes he stumbles across a repository of...

The President is the story of a dictator of an imaginary country in the Caucasus, who is forced to escape following a coup d’état, and...

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...

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

A documentary portrait of legendary Perfect Ten gymnast Nadia Comaneci after becoming an icon in the 1976 Olympics, during her Romanian period, and...

The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.

They’ve become the human face of inhuman barbarity. Leaders like Hitler, Idi Amin Dada, Stalin, Kim Jong Il, Saddam Hussein, Nicolae Ceausescu,...

In 1981, seven Libyan exiles formed the core opposition group to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Thirty years later, they are back to their country only to...

A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later...

A journey through Kim Jong Un’s past and present to understand the man and the myth who holds North Korea’s uncertain future in his hands.

Four lucid grandmothers tell their story forgotten by history: the militancy and resistance of the young women of the leftist youth against the...

The lifestyle, self-styling and political opinions of Chechen dictator Ramsan Kadyrov are examined in this documentary.

A team of specialists is dispatched to protect the leader of a Middle Eastern country from a neighboring dictator who has designs on his country.

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

A former mercenary who runs an air-transport service gets caught up in political intrigue.

In 1979 José Efraín Ríos Montt became a reborn Christian. He was offering a sermon when a group of soldiers burst into his...

Two young intellectuals of the PCI, former partisans, enter into a deep ideological crisis after the fall of Stalin. One will volunteer for Vietnam....

The leaders of Egypt's 2011 revolution discuss the fire, courage and resiliency behind their movement to remove President Hosni Mubarak from office.

During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio...