Topic: Chilean Dictatorship

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The Battle of Chile: Part 2: The Coup

1976 · Documentary · 82 min. · Chile

Direction Patricio Guzmán

Cast Salvador Allende · Carlos Altamirano · Fernando Castillo

Plot The second film in a two-part documentary on the fate of Allende's Popular Unity government filmed throughout Chile from February to September 1973. Part two opens with the attempted military...

8.2

1K votes

8.2

1K votes

The Battle of Chile: Part 1: The Bourgeois Insurrection

1975 · Documentary · 100 min. · Chile

Direction Patricio Guzmán

Cast Salvador Allende · Abilio Fernández

Plot The first film in a two-part documentary on the fate of Allende's Popular Unity government filmed throughout Chile from February to September 1973. Part one examines the escalation of rightist...

8.2

1K votes

8.2

1K votes

The Battle of Chile: Part 3: The Struggle of an Unarmed People

1979 · Documentary · 82 min. · Chile

Direction Patricio Guzmán

Plot Completed two years after the first two parts of "The Battle of Chile" in 1978, this film deals with the creation of thousands of local groups of "popular power" by...

8.0

993 votes

8.0

993 votes

Los archivos del cardenal (TV Miniseries)

2011 · Series · min. · Chile

Direction Nicolás Acuña · Juan Ignacio Sabatini

Cast Benjamín Vicuña · Daniela Ramírez · Alejandro Trejo · Iván Álvarez de Araya

Plot TV Miniseries (2011-2014). 2 Seasons. 24 Episodes. The work of human rights that made the Vicariate of Solidarity during the Chilean military dictatorship.

7.9

73 votes

7.9

73 votes

Missing

1982 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Jack Lemmon · Sissy Spacek · Melanie Mayron · John Shea

Plot This political thriller winner (ex aequo) of the Golden Palm in Cannes Film Festival has its origins in an actual event – the disappearance of a young American writer and...

7.8

14K votes

7.8

14K votes

Los 80 (TV Series)

2008 · Series · 54 min. · Chile

Direction Boris Quercia

Cast Daniel Muñoz · Tamara Acosta · Loreto Aravena · Tomás Verdejo

Plot TV Series (2008-2014). 7 Seasons. 78 Episodes. Inspired by a Spanish series of the same name issued in 2004, but focused on events in Chile from 1982 to 1986 from...

7.6

189 votes

7.6

189 votes

Nostalgia for the Light

2010 · Documentary · 90 min. · Chile

Direction Patricio Guzmán

Cast Gaspar Galaz · Lautaro Núñez de Arco · Luís Henríquez · Miguel Lawner

Plot Nostalgia de la luz is a film about the distance between the sky and the earth, between light and human beings and the mysterious comings and goings arising between them....

7.6

1K votes

7.6

1K votes

Machuca

2004 · Movie · 120 min. · Chile

Direction Andrés Wood

Cast Matías Quer · Ariel Mateluna · Manuela Martelli · Aline Küppenheim

Plot Two children from different ends of the social spectrum become friends and witness the events that unfold in Chile under Pinochet.

7.4

7K votes

7.4

7K votes

The City of Photographers

2006 · Documentary · 80 min. · Chile

Direction Sebastián Moreno

7.4

247 votes

7.4

247 votes

Salvador Allende

2004 · Documentary · 100 min. · Chile

Direction Patricio Guzmán

Cast Salvador Allende · Patricio Guzmán · Jacques Bidou · Alejandro Gonzáles

Plot From his childhood in Valparaiso to his death during the Pinochet military coup on September 11, 1973, the life and works of Chilean president Salvador Allende.

7.4

1K votes

7.4

1K votes

La flaca Alejandra

1994 · Documentary · 57 min. · Chile

7.4

44 votes

7.4

44 votes

Death Squads: The French School (TV)

2003 · Documentary · 60 min. · France

Direction Marie-Monique Robin

Plot The French army was very influential in how modern suppression of independence movements has been and is carried out. This documentary reveals why.

7.4

75 votes

7.4

75 votes

EEUU vs Allende

2008 · Documentary · 60 min. · Chile

7.4

57 votes

7.4

57 votes

Fernando is back

1998 · Documentary · 31 min. · Chile

Direction Silvio Caiozzi

7.4

29 votes

7.4

29 votes

The Pearl Button

2015 · Documentary · 82 min. · Chile

Direction Patricio Guzmán

Cast Martín Calderón · Ema Malig · Gabriela Paterito · Gabriel Salazar Vergara

Plot 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...

7.4

944 votes

7.4

944 votes

My Life with Carlos

2010 · Documentary · 83 min. · Chile

Direction Germán Berger

Plot The filmmaker attempts to learn about his father, who was killed in 1973 in Pinochet's Chile.

7.4

24 votes

7.4

24 votes

El pacto de Adriana

2017 · Documentary · 96 min. · Chile

7.3

88 votes

7.3

88 votes

Invisible Heroes (TV Miniseries)

2019 · Series · 282 min. · Finland

Direction Mika Kurvinen · Alicia Scherson

Cast Pelle Heikkilä · Sophia Heikkilä · Ilkka Villi · Aksa Korttila

Plot TV Mini-series (2019). 6 Episodes. Two Finnish diplomats struggle to save thousands of lives during and following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.

7.3

142 votes

7.3

142 votes

No olvidar

1982 · Documentary · 30 min. · Chile

Direction Ignacio Agüero

7.2

22 votes

7.2

22 votes