Un grupo de terroristas rusos se hacen pasar por periodistas y secuestran el avión donde viaja el presidente de Estados Unidos. La negociación en el aire no es tan sencilla como en tierra y los secuestrados comenzarán a luchar por sus vidas.
Inês Etienne Romeu was an opponent to the Brazilian's dictatorship. She was kidnapped, tortured and raped in jail, where she stayed for almost 100 days. She was later sentenced to life imprisonment. She stayed ten years in prison, from 1971 to 1979. Delphine Seyrig directed this film in 1974, when Inês was still in prison, protesting against this imprisonment and in support to Inês.
The story of Myo Myint, a political prisoner, who made the transformation from being a soldier in Burma's junta to a pro-democracy activist.
En Sudáfrica, un hombre de raza negra investiga la verdad sobre un prisionero político torturado durante la década anterior.
Liberado tras pasar unos años preso en Cuba como preso político, un cubano se reune de nuevo con su mujer y su hija en Miami.
A woman struggles with the isolation of being confined as a prisoner in a war-torn country.
Aclamado documental sobre los efectos de la Guerra del Vietnam en dicho país. Ganador del Oscar al mejor documental en 1975.
Después de veinte años de prisión en Cuba, Juan Raúl Pérez se marcha a Miami para reunirse con su esposa Carmela y su hija Teresa. En el barco, conoce a Dottie Pérez, una antigua prostituta que sueña con el rock-and-roll y John Wayne. Al llegar, un oficial de inmigración comete un error: cree que Juan y Dottie están casados. Carmela, preocupada, al ver que su marido Raúl no llega a casa, piensa que no está entre los refugiados que acaban de llegar. Acusado del abandono de su esposa e hija, Juan trata de solucionar la situación de la mejor manera posible.
After three years in prison, Nader is given a furlough to go home. He has 48 hours to become a father to his four-year-old daughter.
En el verano de 1977, un preso político que vive en el exilio relata las circunstancias de su fuga a un reportero: en abril de 1976, un grupo de presos de ETA político-militar planea fugarse de la cárcel, pero el proyecto fracasa cuando los guardias descubren el túnel que están excavando. Los reclusos, lejos de desanimarse, empiezan un segundo túnel. Tras ocho meses de dificultades, consiguen fugarse. Dadas las delicadas circunstancias de los últimos meses del franquismo y el despertar de los primeros brotes de democracia, la fuga del grupo tuvo sorprendentes consecuencias.
En la cárcel Modelo de Valencia se va a celebrar el Día Internacional del Preso de Conciencia. Gentes de la política, la cultura y la farándula asistirán al acto y aprovecharán la ocasión para hacer lucrativos negocios.
An adaptation of the stage musical based on the novel about a gay man and a political prisoner sharing a 1980s Argentinean prison cell. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.
A documentary about Finnish twin sisters, one of whom disappeared in Argentina in 1977.
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 fear. Disappearances, political assassinations, waves of repression and mass arrests are all regular occurances. But while half of Belarus moves closer to Russia, the other half is trying to resist…
Follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world.
How Germany was when its people entered the nightmare of World War II? Despair and fear lead a hungry population to follow the chilling call of just one man to world domination. A real-life horror story, an ominous tale of violence and deception, which takes place from 1919 to 1934. (Entirely made up of restored, colorized archival footage.)
The never-before-told story of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love – a spiritual group of surfers and hippies in Southern California that became the largest suppliers of psychedelic drugs in the world during the 1960s and early 1970s. Bonded by their dreams to fight social injustice and spread peace, this unlikely band of free-spirited idealists quickly transformed into a drug-smuggling empire and at the same time inadvertently invented the modern illegal drug trade. At the head of the Brotherhood, and the heart of this story, is the anti-capitalistic husband and wife team, who made it their mission to change the world through LSD.
Recorre la vida del cantautor chileno Víctor Jara. Los inicios y su infancia campesina, su juventud en una población marginal de Santiago, su trabajo en el teatro, su carrera como músico con el apoyo de Violeta Parra, y su compromiso con el pensamiento social de izquierda que llega al poder Allende en 1970. Finalmente el trágico desenlace: Allende muere en la Moneda, Jara es torturado en el Estadio Chile, y asesinado impunemente. Como muchos, su viuda debe abandonar el país y desde el extranjero iniciar una ardua lucha para recuperar el legado de Víctor, cuya obra es destruida y prohibida en el país. El documental hace un paralelo entre la historia de Jara y las transformaciones que sufre Chile.
The Second World War. French authorities ban political parties and unions. In Algeria, the leaders of political and trade union organizations were arrested and interned in "surveillance" camps with more than 2,000 French and foreigners: communist activists, trade unionists, brigadists, Spanish republicans and other opponents of the Vichy regime. The Djenien Bourezg camp is one of these camps, located in southern Algeria and is one of the most formidable. An old activist for the Algerian national cause returns to the scene. He blows away the ashes that cover this part of history. And through it, we discover the hard fight of the camp inmates for respect and human dignity, under a fascist command.
"Eyes of the Rainbow" deals with the life of Assata Shakur, the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army leader who escaped from prison and was given political asylum in Cuba, where she has lived for close to 15 years. In it we visit with Assata in Havana and she tells us about her history and her life in Cuba. This film is also about Assata's AfroCuban context, including the Yoruba Orisha Oya, goddess of the ancestors, of war, of the cemetery and of the rainbow.