Movies and TvShows featuring "military-dictator" theme.

A mercenary is hired by a wealthy businessman to lead a covert operation to overthrow a military dictator in a fictitious African country. The mercenary assembles a team and faces various challenges including guerrilla warfare, combat, and torture. Along the way, they encounter freedom fighters, jail cells, and battles as they fight for revolution and freedom. The mercenary must navigate the complexities of war and make difficult decisions to achieve their mission.

Based on a true story, 'The Lady' follows Aung San Suu Kyi's struggle for democracy in Burma and her personal sacrifices to bring freedom and human rights to her people. Set in the 1940s and spanning several decades, the film highlights the political intimidation, police brutality, and the brutality of the military junta. Despite being a political prisoner, Suu Kyi becomes a symbol of hope and a freedom fighter who inspires a nation.

Harsh Realm is about a soldier named Lt. Thomas Hobbes who is thrown into a virtual reality game where he must fight against a ruthless dictator and navigate through a post-apocalyptic America. He is joined by a group of teammates, including a female healer, a female soldier, and a female freedom fighter. Together, they must survive and find a way to escape the game.

Inside the minds of the heartless, corrupt, and cruel individuals who've seized control of their country through the infliction of appalling pain on their fellow man. From Kim Jong-il, to Osama Bin Laden, to Hitler, uncover the madness behind the merciless dictators responsible for unimaginable human atrocities that still haunt the world.

In a military dictatorship, a group of women are imprisoned in a corrupt women's prison. They face abuse, exploitation, and forced prostitution. However, their determination and resilience lead them to plan an audacious escape.

The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage is a television series broadcast in the United States by NBC and produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions in association with Walt Disney Television. This show originated as a TV-movie. The program originally aired in 1991, but lasted less than one season. The series was officially titled Disney Presents The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage.

In 1970s Seoul, a barber becomes the personal hairdresser for the President of South Korea, facing the absurdity and brutality of the military dictatorship firsthand. As tensions rise, the barber becomes entangled in political intrigue and discovers the true cost of power. With dark humor and poignant moments, this film explores themes of loyalty, family, and the struggle for democracy.

In the brutal Brazilian military dictatorship, a man is subjected to electrical torture and interrogation as part of his imprisonment. The story explores themes of liberation, torture, and the oppressive regime.

A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by passive resistance, from the dictatorial regime propped up by European colonialists, is imprisoned and tortured, along with a thief who comes to a greater understanding through his contact with Lalubi.

In a country (alluded to be Chile) under dictatorship, a police night raid comes up with a few usual anti-regime suspects. They are sent to a camp in the middle of nowhere. Their friends on the outside start to plan their escape.

The Madballs are a zany animated rock band who rock and roll their way across the galaxy. Music is illegal on their home planet so they make a break for it on Earth.

On December 10th, 2006, General Pinochet dies unexpectedly at Santiago's Military Hospital. His decease triggers a 24 hours revival of political divisions that marked with violence and death Chilean recent history. With high quality original footage and testimonies of four characters that deeply experienced a journey of strong contrasts and surrealistic nuances, the film narrates in an innovative, exciting way the ending of a key chapter in Chilean history.

Race-car driver Blaine Striker grows concerned about his younger brother, a student at a medical school on the Caribbean island of St. Heron. General Turner has led a violent coup on this island and may be planning to blow up the school in order to blame the destruction on counterrevolutionaries. Striker infiltrates St. Heron, is captured, stripped to his tighty-whiteys, and electrotortured. He escapes, joins forces with the counterrevolutionaries, and foils a plot to assemble Russian missiles on the island.

Documental about the Second Independence of Chile. Images and videos from the period before and after September 11th, 1973

A portrait of a brutal Pinochet military dictatorship made during a three month visit to Chile in 1985 by David Bradbury. The footage reveals a country torn with civil strife and political unrest; military intimidation of the population; indiscriminate arrests: murder torture and disappearances were facts of Chilean life.

I Love Pinochet is a documentary that provides an in-depth look at the military dictator Augusto Pinochet and his regime in Chile. The film includes interviews with Pinochet supporters and explores the political extremism and right-wing ideology of his military dictatorship.

El diario de Agustín (2008) is a documentary that exposes the lies and manipulation of information by a media tycoon in Chile during the military dictatorship. Agustín Edwards, the owner of a prominent newspaper, collaborated with the authoritarian regime and planted fabricated stories to support their anti-communist agenda. The film delves into the dark history of media manipulation, propaganda, and the impact it had on the country.