Movies and TvShows featuring "one-party-state" theme.

The Missing Picture is a claymation animated documentary that explores the horrifying events of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia during the 1970s. The film delves into the personal experiences of the director, a massacre survivor, and depicts the city evacuation, collective farms, forced labor, and propaganda used by the totalitarian government. Through the use of clay modeling and archive footage, the film provides a unique perspective on this dark period in Cambodian history.

Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia tells the story of the Khmer Rouge regime and its brutal tactics that led to the death of millions of Cambodians. The documentary explores the bombing of the neutral country, forced migration, starvation, and the destruction of cities. It sheds light on the political criminal Pol Pot and his one-party state, as well as the mass murder and genocide that occurred during this dark period in Cambodian history.

They’ve become the human face of inhuman barbarity. Leaders like Hitler, Idi Amin Dada, Stalin, Kim Jong Il, Saddam Hussein, Nicolae Ceausescu, Bokassa, Muammar Kadhafi, Khomeini, Mussolini and Franco governed their countries completely cut off from reality. These paranoid leaders were driven to abuse their power by the pathology of power itself. Dictators are driven by a relentless, thought-out determination to impose themselves as infallible, all-knowing and all-powerful beings. But they are also men ruled by their caprices, uncontrollable impulses, and reckless fits of frenzy, which paradoxically render them as human as anyone else. The abuses they committed were clearly atrocious, yet some of them were as outlandish as the characters portrayed in the film The Dictator. They sunk to depths worthy of Kafka: so incredibly absurd, they are outrageously funny.

Albert, an auto mechanic is listening to a radio broadcast about a society based on the "coordinated cooperation of ants". He becomes excited about the idea, and becomes a little careless. The hood of the car, crashes down on his head, knocking him out cold. While unconcious, he dreams about being a worker among ants in the state-controlled nation of Antrolia. At first he is enthusiastic, but soon becomes disenchanted. When he threatens to strike, the soldier ants drag him before a firing squad. Just as he is being executed, he wakes up. He jumps into the car, races to the radio station and assaults the speaker, who is still extolling the virtures of state-planning boards and a controlled, planned economy. The speech, on red paper, flies into the air, as the mechanic grabs the microphone to give the audience "the real low-down on them ants".