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- DirectorEstela BravoStarsFidel CastroMuhammad AliHarry BelafonteDocumentary about Fidel Castro, covering 40 years of Cuban Revolution. Rare Fidel Castro footage: he appears swimming with a bodyguard, visiting his childhood home and school, playing with his friend Nelson Mandela, meeting kid Elián Gonzalez, and celebrating his birthday with the Buena Vista Social Club group.
- DirectorGlenn GebhardStarsRita MorenoA deconstruction of the known history of the Cuban revolution.
- DirectorNéstor AlmendrosOrlando Jiménez LealStarsLorenzo MonrealJorge LagoJulio MedinaAn examination of Cuba's "moral purges" that began in 1964 with UMAP camps for those suspected of or found guilty of "improper conduct." Key moments brought outside attention to these policies: the defection of ballet dancers in Paris in 1966, a 48-hour period in 1980 when more than 11,000 Cubans sought asylum in Havana's Peruvian embassy, and the brief detention of writer Virgilio Piñera. Interviews with exiles take up most of the film as they tell their stories and ponder the Castro government's arrest and detention of persons with effeminate mannerisms: what the state calls "extravagant behavior." In essence, the film exposes the Cuban state's homophobic, petit bourgeois nature.
- DirectorJulien Temple
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsSergio CorrieriSalvador WoodJosé GallardoFour vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
- DirectorOrlando RojasStarsJorge Luis ÁlvarezMaría Isabel Díaz LagoFrancisco GattornoA shy country boy gets caught between the peer pressure of his buddies and his love for an overweight, strong willed but likable girl.
- DirectorLuis Felipe BernazaStarsReynaldo MiravallesAna ViñaNancy GonzálesPedro Quijano is a cattle tender who used to be the champion in milk production and lowest mortality of cattle in a site of Escambray mountains in Cuba. For this reason he was normally called Pedro Zero Percentage. Pedro had a family composed of two daughters, Carolina who used to work always with his father, and Purita quiet rebel lovesick in Lupesio, the son of Vicente, another cattle tender, but Pedro's enemy. Their rivalry consisted in their competition to be the most productive cow producer of the region. Vicente had once one of his cows dead and for this reason he was called Vicente Menos (Minus One). The other Vicente's daughter, Blanquita, was lovesick of the Pedro's god son, Trino. So with all this enmity, the couples were never allowed to meet. The end of the film showed a reconciliation of both families for the health of cattle production in that area. Reynaldo Miravalles and Orlando Casin acted very well and gave the necessary colour to this comedy.
- DirectorErnesto DaranasStarsAlina RodríguezYuliet CruzArmando Miguel GómezAging teacher Carmela has a special heart for pupils from broken homes and is challenged by the headmaster to follow up 12 year old Chala which is infatuated in Yeni. They are both poor, and has severe home troubles.
- DirectorBenjamin MurrayAlysa NahmiasStarsVittorio GarattiRoberto GottardiRicardo PorroCuba's ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro's Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece.
- DirectorEmma ChristopherStarsJoe AllieLucy AmaraCuco CasanovaAfro-Cubans preserve ancestral traditions. A filmmaker traces roots to Sierra Leone, where villagers recognize lost kin's customs. A joyous festival reunites the long-separated family through shared cultural heritage.
- DirectorTristán BauerBiography built from unpublished military and family archive material, highlights the formation of Ernesto Guevara, his poetic view of reality, his thought at the service of action and his desire for the construction of a new world.
- DirectorDollan CannellStarsWayne SmithEnrique EncinosaEnrique OvaresDollan Cannell's documentary on the hundreds of alleged plots to assassinate Fidel Castro, and a look at the evolution of Cuban politics.
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsSalvador AllendePatricio GuzmánJacques BidouFrom 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.
- DirectorÁlvaro J. CovacevichStarsSalvador AllendeFidel CastroIn November 1971, Salvador Allende and Fidel Castro chat to each other about revolution, imperialism, oligarchy, underdevelopment, cultural dependency and economics.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsSalvador AllendeRégis DebrayOn January 4, 1971, an extensive dialogue takes place between the president of Chile Salvador Allende and the French intellectual Regis Debray discuss the Chilean process towards the installation of a socialist government.
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsAbilio FernándezSalvador AllendeThe chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
- DirectorTomi BrotherusStarsPia RoslundAngelina VázquezPedro AhumadaDuring Pinochet's coup d'etat young Finnish diplomats started a secret operation to rescue thousands of Chileans from the military junta.
- DirectorKim BartleyDonnacha O'BriainStarsHugo ChávezPedro CarmonaJesse HelmsIn April 2002, an Irish film crew is making a documentary about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, when a coup from the opposition is made.
- DirectorOctavio GetinoFernando E. SolanasStarsMaría de la PazFernando E. SolanasEdgardo SuárezDivided into three segments, namely 1 Neocolonialism, 2 Act for liberation, 3 Violence and liberation, the documentary lasts more than 4 hours this deals with the defense of the revolution and the revolution of the third world such as the revolt of the students in the United States and Western Europe, Czech citizens protest against the Soviet Union's State bureaucracy and also the revolution that (probably) is unprecedented in Argentina.
- DirectorFernando E. SolanasStarsMick JaggerKeith RichardsFernando E. SolanasAfter the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, successive democratic governments launched a series of reforms purporting to turn Argentina into the world's most liberal and prosperous economy. Less than twenty years later, the Argentinians have lost literally everything: major national companies have been sold well below value to foreign corporations; the proceeds of privatizations have been diverted into the pockets of corrupt officials; revised labour laws have taken away all rights from employees; in a country that is traditionally an important exporter of foodstuffs, malnutrition is widespread; millions of people are unemployed and sinking into poverty; and their savings have disappeared in a final banking collapse. The film highlights numerous political, financial, social and judicial aspects that mark out Argentina's road to ruin.
- DirectorLuis PuenzoStarsNorma AleandroHéctor AlterioChunchuna VillafañeDuring the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
- DirectorAna Maria GarciaDocumentary on the mass sterilization of Puerto Rican women during the 50s and 60s.
- DirectorMarco BechisStarsAntonella CostaCarlos EchevarríaEnrique PiñeyroIn the 70's, eighteen year-old Maria Fabiani lives with her French mother Diane in an old house in Buenos Aires, subletting rooms and giving classes to illiterate adults in the slums. One of the tenants, Felix, has a non-corresponded crush on Maria. When the teenager is abducted in her house by the Argentinean army accused of subversion, her mother seeks her out in the 23rd Precinct where one of the military without uniform tells her that they are heading with Maria. While Diane desperately tries to find information about her daughter, Maria is submitted to torture in the hideous underground of the Garage Olimpo.
- DirectorCarlos EcheverríaStarsEsteban BuchMiguel Angel D'AgostinoDébora HermanInquires about the disappearance of the student Juan Herman in the city of Bariloche, Argentina during the last military dictatorship.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsGael García BernalAlfredo CastroAntonia ZegersAn advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
- DirectorIsrael Adrián CaetanoStarsFreddy FloresRosa SánchezOscar BerteaA Bolivian immigrant working illegally as a cook in a small restaurant in Buenos Aires suffers abuse and discrimination from its customers.
- DirectorHéctor OliveraStarsPedro AleandroHéctor AlterioLuis BrandoniIn 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions. The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored.
- DirectorAdolfo AristarainStarsFederico LuppiHaydée PadillaJulio De GraziaTwo coworkers fake an accident to blackmail the company they work for for a sum of money. However, the plan goes awry and one of them dies. The surviving employee demands a compensation, but the company refuses to pay him.
- DirectorAdolfo AristarainStarsJosé SacristánFederico LuppiLeonor BenedettoMario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.
- DirectorSergio RenánStarsHéctor AlterioLuis BrandoniAna María PicchioA man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.
- DirectorEliseo SubielaStarsDarío GrandinettiSandra BallesterosNacha GuevaraOliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?
- DirectorCiro GuerraStarsNilbio TorresJan BijvoetAntonio BolívarThe story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
- DirectorSergio CabreraStarsFausto CabreraFrank RamírezDelfina GuidoA group of tenants living in an old house are confronted with having to move out due to a renovation project the city has undertaken, but decide to unite and come up with a strategy.
- DirectorAndrés WoodStarsMatías QuerAriel MatelunaManuela MartelliTwo 12-year-old Chilean children from different social classes become friends in 1973. They both discover each other's world as political tensions in their country increase.
- StarsRodrigo de la SernaDiego Alonso GómezAriel Staltari4 young men with different backgrounds merge in the same house and have to face new experiences living in a stolen house, being prosecuted by the police and other gangs.
- CreatorDamián SzifronDiego PerettiFederico D'ElíaStarsFederico D'ElíaAlejandro FioreDiego PerettiA team of 4 talented men solve their clients' problems by staging "drills" to deceive people.
- DirectorLuis MandokiStarsCarlos PadillaLeonor VarelaXuna PrimusA young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him.
- DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsYalitza AparicioMarina de TaviraDiego Cortina AutreyA year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
- DirectorRoger SpottiswoodeStarsNick NolteEd HarrisGene HackmanThree journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somoza regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.
- DirectorCarola FuentesRafael ValdeavellanoStarsSergio de CastroErnesto FontaineRicardo French-DavisThe story of a group of Milton Friedman's disciples that, backed by a military dictatorship, turned Chile into the first and most extreme neoliberal country in the world.
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsPatricio GuzmánVincent DavyHortensia AllendeAfter decades of fascist rule in Chile, Patricio Guzman returns to his country to screen his documentary, Battle of Chile, which until the time of the filming was banned by authorities. His audience, a new generation of Chileans who remember little of the revolution and ensuing coup reflect on their experience of watching the film after so many years of suppression.
- CreatorNimrod AmitaiIgnacio ArnoldJavier BertossiStarsIvan Alvarez de ArayaSebastián AyalaKarla MeloA former financial executive finds redemption and romance when he becomes a math teacher, after he's granted parole following a prison sentence.
- DirectorSebastián MorenoStarsVerónica De NegriJosé DuránPaz ErrázurizA film about the fearless photographers and photojournalists who documented strikes, demonstrations, protests etc during the Chilean military regime of Augusto Pinochet, sometimes risking their very lives.
- StarsPelle HeikkiläSophia HeikkiläIlkka VilliTwo Finnish diplomats struggle to save thousands of lives during and following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsNelson VillagraShenda RománMarcelo RomoThe real story about an illiterate murderer, educated in prison, where he reflects on his actions days before he died.
- DirectorTânia QuaresmaStarsCajuCastanhaMeu ManoDocumentary about popular art manifestations in Northeast Brazil: the "cordel" literature (popular literature, small stories sold in markets); "repente", kind of musical challenge between two singers, who have to improvise the verses, in strict rhyme; and the interaction between these and local popular song.
- DirectorJoão Moreira SallesStarsSantiago Badariotti MerloDocumentary about Santiago, a peculiar man who used to work for the director and his parents as a butler. The material was filmed in 1992 but, for some strange reason, the director felt he couldn't edit it and put it aside. In 2005 he remembers the unfinished film and starts its edition.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsFernando JoséThe daily lives and routine of 37 families living in a huge 12-story building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: their drama, aspirations, intimate revelations, loneliness, dreams...
- DirectorKátia LundJoão Moreira SallesStarsNilton CerqueiraCarlos Luis GregórioPaulo LinsDocumentary about urban violence in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. Policemen, drug dealers, and shantytown dwellers get trapped into a daily war that knows no winners.
- DirectorMarcelo MasagãoStarsFranz ReicheltA fascinating and poetical collage of countless images from the 20th century with the purpose of revealing matters of life and death during the era and its many social, cultural and political transformations, with the director making several statements on several issues, combining fact and fiction to compose his powerful mosaic of images along with the magnificent music of Wim Mertens. A true work of art that dares to make several questions about the human condition, its contradictions and ironies.
- DirectorCamilo TavaresStarsAuro de Moura AndradeRobert BentleyJúlio de Sá BierrenbachProvides evidence of manipulation and investment funding from the U.S. government to carry out the Brazilian military coup that occurred in 1964.
- DirectorHelvecio RattonStarsCaio BlatDaniel de OliveiraLéo QuintãoDuring the period of 1964 to 1985, Brazil lived a military dictatorship. In the 60s, the Dominican friars Tito, Betto, Fernando and Ivo help leftist organizations. However, they are arrested and tortured by the despicable Chief of DOPS Fleury, who is trying to arrest the leader Carlos Marighella. Tito and Fernando do not resist the violent torture and betray Marighella, who is ambushed and executed by Fleury. In 1973, in France, the exiled friar Tito is unable to overcome his trauma and depression and commits suicide in the Convent of La Tourette.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsEduardo CoutinhoElizabeth TeixeiraFerreira GullarA filmmaker returns to Northeast Brazil after twenty years to resume his film (a profile of assassinated peasant leader João Pedro Teixeira) which was shut down by a right-wing military coup in 1964.
- DirectorLeon HirszmanStarsGianfrancesco GuarnieriFernanda MontenegroCarlos Alberto RiccelliUnion leader's son doesn't want to engage in a strike, because his wife is pregnant, thus disregarding his father's tradition of political activism.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsMarília PêraAndrea BeltrãoFernanda TorresFollowing a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.
- DirectorRoberto FariasStarsReginaldo FariaCarlos ZaraAntônio FagundesThis movie is about one of the worst periods for the Brazilian people. Shows the days of military dictatorship when the Brazilian people against the government were put in jails, tortured, and some of them assassinated by the military and para-military people. At the same time, the same government censored the press and didn't allow anything but news about three times-champion soccer team. While the people made parties, etc for the soccer team, in the underground, people suffered all kinds of torture.
- DirectorEnrique García MezaStarsÁngela BuitragoDon Bernardo CamposCasetaA documentary about 43 Mexican students forcibly disappeared after being violently detained by police, and the unsatisfactory slow investigation that followed both at state and federal levels.
- DirectorAlberto Saúl Arnaut EstradaOn March 19th 2010, the Mexican government announced the death of two hitmen, armed to the teeth, in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León. Days later, it was discovered that they were in fact honor students who had been tortured and murdered by the military, who later tried to disappear them in a common grave.
- DirectorEverardo GonzálezA series of stories with old thieves. Framed portraits in Mexico City from the 1970s and 1980s. From the corners of poverty and the prowess of being able to steal "honestly", a series of characters that make the old way of stealing endearing
- DirectorEverardo GonzálezA documentary about the violence in Mexico told from the word of those who have suffered the pain and those who make the pain.
- DirectorFrancisco VargasStarsÁngel TaviraGerardo TaracenaDagoberto GamaIn an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off the rebels from their cache of ammunition hidden in a field. A family of grandfather, son, and grandson are among the rebels in the hills. The grandfather, with his violin over his shoulder, tries to pass the checkpoint, ostensibly to tend his corn crop. The commanding officer lets him pass but insists on a daily music lesson. Can the old man ferry out the ammunition in his violin case under the soldiers' nose?
- DirectorJorge FonsStarsHéctor BonillaMaría RojoJorge FegánA Claustrophobic experience which involves a Mexican middle class family into the atrocities made by wild and heartless army forces whose main objective seems to be students who do not permit the 1968's Olimpic games' to develop normally.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsIgnacio López TarsoPina PellicerEnrique LuceroPoor and hungry peasant Macario wishes to have a good meal for All Saint's Day. After his wife cooks him a turkey he has three apparitions: The Devil, God, and the Death.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsHortensia AllendeSalvador AllendeFidel CastroIn 1985, exiled director Miguel Littin returned clandestinely to Pinochet's Chile to make this documentary about the socio-political reality of the country.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsNelson VillagraMarcelo GaeteRafael BenaventeIn 1930 Chile, amidst the economic crisis, syndicalist Jose spearheads the battle against landlords and the government.
- DirectorBarbara TrentStarsElizabeth MontgomeryCarlos CantúDiviana IngravalloA film about the true reasons for the 1989 US invasion of Panama and big media complicity in these activities.
- DirectorIgnacio AgüeroStarsSalvador AllendePatricio AylwinRaquel CorreaExposé of the CIA-financed efforts of the Edwards family of Chile to cover up the human rights abuses of the Pinochet dictatorship through its newspaper 'El Mercurio'.
- DirectorWalter SallesStarsFernanda MontenegroVinícius de OliveiraMarília PêraThe emotive journey of a former schoolteacher who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
- DirectorLeon HirszmanStarsLélia AbramoLuiz Inácio Lula da SilvaVinicius de MoraesA detailed look at the events that led to the continuous strikes that shut down many factories during the still repressive days of the military regime. The workers union, led by syndicalist Lula, demanded better work conditions and better payments, fighting not only against their exploitative bosses but also the political establishment of the time. Crowds were gathered, protests and marches were planned, constantly followed by the police but the workers bond and strategy was so strong and efficient that everything turned out in their favor, with peaceful movements and no casualties on both sides.
- DirectorEliza CapaiStarsMarcela JesusLucas 'Koka' PenteadoNayara SouzaYoung Brazilians make history in this radical document. Initially they are fighting for education, then their subversive actions take on a new dimension.
- DirectorLuiz BolognesiStarsDavi KopenawaDaucirene YanomamiEhuana Yaira YanomamiIn powerful images, alternating between documentary observation and staged sequences, and dense soundscapes, Luiz Bolognesi documents the Indigenous community of the Yanomami and depicts their threatened natural environment in the Amazon rain forest.
- DirectorCaio CavechiniCarlos Juliano BarrosThe Brazilian meat gains market worldwide. But, in its successful path, it leaves behind untold stories of employees who were put out of their jobs due to their intense, repetitive and hard work.
- DirectorFlavio FredericoStarsErenice LohanThrough a personal investigation of her niece, Mariana Pamplona, the film recover the life of the guerrilla Iara Iavelberg. She was a cultured and beautiful woman who left behind a comfortable family life, opting to engage in an armed struggle against the military dictatorship in Brazil. Living in hiding, in on routine of kidnappings and armed actions, she became the companion of the ex-army caption Carlos Lamarca, sharing whit him the post of one of the most sought after targets of the military regime. The film dismantles the official version of the dictatorship, which attributes Iara's death in Salvador in 1971 to a suicide.
- DirectorJosé PadilhaFelipe LacerdaStarsSandro do NascimentoRodrigo PimentelLuiz Eduardo SoaresOn June 12, 2000, a young man with a gun took the passengers aboard Bus 174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil hostage. This documentary examines the event itself, the resulting media frenzy, the police response, and the perpetrator's background.
- DirectorFernando Grostein AndradeCosmo Feilding-MellenStarsFran Boyd AndrewsBrenda BlomFernando Henrique CardosoDocumentary uncovering the failure of the UN sanctioned war on drugs.
- DirectorLucy WalkerKaren HarleyJoão JardimStarsVik MunizOn the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsMarília PêraFernanda TorresA film starting from naught. With no prior research, no characters, no sites, nor specific themes, a film team arrive to the hinterland of Paraíba state in northeastern Brazil in search of people with stories to tell. In the village of São João do Rio do Peixe they come to Sítio Araçás, a rural community of 86 families, mostly relatives. With a girl from Araçás as mediator, the residents, in their majority, elderly, tell their life story, marked by popular catholicism, by a hierarchy, by a sense of family and honor - in a world fast disappearing.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsMaria Socorro Morais AlvesJosé Alves BezerraZacarias Feitosa de MoraisThe Story of the workers who had participated of the striker movement in the Brazil with President Lula when he was a syndical leader
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoResidents of a slum in Rio de Janeiro are invited to share religious experiences and personal beliefs while reflecting about their daily lives.
- DirectorEduardo Montes-BradleyStarsAlberto CastellanosAlberto GranadoArgudin MendozaChe: Rise and Fall is the most complete work yet produced on the trials and tribulations of Argentine born Ernesto Che Guevara. The documentary is structured in three main acts. The first relates to the early years in Argentina, his friendship with Alberto Granado and the preparations for the long journey through South America on a motorcycle. The adventure served as the argument to another film The Motorcycle Diaries. The second half of the First Act focuses on the Cuban Revolution and the relationship between Guevara and Fidel Castro. The Second Act brings the audience closer to the period in Guevara spent in Africa fighting a Revolutionary War, and last but not least, we are confronted with the final days of Che in Bolivia. Che: Rise and Fall brings out for the first time the testimony of Alberto Granado himself at a crucial time when the remains of Guevara were being brought back to Cuba after thirty years in an unmarked grave somewhere in Bolivia. The documentary is a must see for all those concern with Latin American History and the Twentieth Century.
- DirectorPeter De KockIn 1997 the body of Che Guevara was unearthed under a runway in Bolivia. With this discovery the last mystery of his life and death seemed to be resolved. Untill it became apparent that his hands were missing.
- DirectorCharles GervaisStarsNairobi CáceresWilliam OvallesMartha VarónSince 1998, a small country with vast oil wealth but an impoverished populace has followed a resolutely revolutionary path. Its leader defies the established order of things, leading his people into a fight to change the world. Heroes of the past provide his inspiration: not only revolutionaries like Simón Bolívar and Che Guevara, but Don Quixote, the legendary justice-seeker who tilted at windmills. The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, provokes strong reactions from all sides. His close personal friendship with Fidel Castro and his virulent attacks on George W. Bush make him a figure both sympathetic and frightening. As the architect of a new Bolivarian revolution, Chávez not only wants to free the Venezuelan people, but help the world rid itself of North American imperialism. Is he a freedom fighter, or a dangerous madman? In the heat of revolutionary struggle, greatness and madness can be hard to tell apart. When idealism is the only guide, there is a constant risk of losing control. And threats come from every direction, even within. ¿¡ Revolución !? is a journey through the tortuous paths of revolution.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsPancho VillaDon Luis TerrazasAlthough some scenes were re-enacted after the fact, this is a real documentary on the struggle of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to overthrow dictator Porfirio Díaz . Directors Christy Cabanne and Raoul Walsh took a camera crew to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution of 1912 and traveled with Villa, filming footage of his army on the march and engaged in battle with federal troops (director Walsh confirmed in an interview the long-rumored story that Villa insisted on the filming of execution by firing squad of several dozen federal prisoners, but that when he returned to Hollywood the studio thought the footage too grisly and cut it out).
- DirectorFrank Piasecki PoulsenThis film is about a young girl who enters FARC and her training to become a guerrilla soldier. It describes the transformation this young city-girl undertakes, when having to adapt to strict military training and primitive conditions of life.
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsTariq AliTony BlairWolf BlitzerA road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents.
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsHugo ChávezRafael CorreaLuiz Inácio Lula da SilvaOliver Stone presents a tribute to a friend one year after his death, the friend in question was the Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez. The documentary covers the time Stone and Chávez spent while making "South of the Border", when they developed a close relationship; and also the testimonies from South America leaders and people close to Chávez to talk about their views on the man and the politician, and share some personal stories they had with him.
- DirectorÁngel Palacios
- DirectorMargot BenacerrafStarsJosé Ignacio CabrujasLaurent Terzieff"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. Margot Benacerraf captures in images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.
- DirectorCarlos OteyzaThe story behind the two governments of Carlos Andrés Pérez in Venezuela.
- DirectorCarlos OteyzaLuz Marina ZamoraA documentary that explores the regime of Venezuelan dictator, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and how he continuously violated Human Rights through his political police, all while developing in great measure the infrastructure of Caracas.
- DirectorMaria Teresa Rodriguez
- DirectorErling BorgenStarsJohn NegroponteRigoberta MenchúGustavo AlvarezA documentary about the new US-ambassador to Iraq, John Dimitri Negroponte which tells how Mr. Negroponte was running brutal civil wars in Central America in the l980s.
- DirectorFrank ChristopherStarsMartin SheenFour filmmakers secretly entered El Salvador to follow a guerrilla movement going in combat against military forces run by the government during El Salvador's civil war. This socialist insurgent movement is formed by peasants, women and children, poor people who are fighting for better life conditions and against the tyrannic repression of the government.
- DirectorJamie MoffettStarsHector Antonio Garcia BerriosDean BrackleyMonsenor Rosa Chavez17 years ago, U.N. peace accords marked the end of a brutal civil war in El Salvador. This film is the compelling story of vibrant Salvadoran individuals and communities and the intricate geopolitical systems that have so profoundly impacted their lives, making this distant war relevant to a current American audience.
- DirectorPedro RuizStarsDiosbelJean FugèreJoséThe chronic shortage of housing in Central Havana has pushed the city upwards, where life spills out onto the rooftops. Resilient and remarkable, these rooftop dwellers have a privileged point of view on a society in the process of major transformation.
- DirectorDawn Gifford EngleStarsAdolfo Pérez EsquivelBeverly KeeneGiacomo Buonafina"Adolfo Perez Esquivel: RIVERS OF HOPE" is the story of Latin America over the past eighty years, as seen through the eyes of one man -- world famous artist, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Adolfo Perez Esquivel. From his humble birth in Argentina to an indigenous mother and immigrant father, to his work exposing the "dirty war" being waged by military dictatorships across Latin America, to his time as a "disappeared" and tortured political prisoner, Adolfo became known as the conscience of Latin America and as a powerful voice for the dispossessed. With extensive archival footage, family photos and never before seen interviews, this very personal film captures one man's journey upon the currents of hope that are now running across the Latin American continent, and it chronicles the genuine progress being made in the struggle for human rights and social justice, for all.
- DirectorRoque FunesStarsEligio AyalaJosé Félix EstigarribiaJulia Miranda Cueto"El infierno del Chaco" had another version in 1938, with the images of the last peace negociations.
- DirectorPaula FiuzaThe film rescues the memory of the jurist Sobral Pinto, one of the great defenders of democracy and human rights, and a man of unshakable ethics.