Movies and TvShows featuring "police-brutality-in-latin-america" theme.

Death Squads: The French School (2003) is a documentary that delves into the history of political repression, state terrorism, and military training in Latin America during the Cold War era. It focuses on the formation and actions of death squads, the French military's role in training Latin American military personnel, and the severe human rights abuses that occurred during this period. The film explores topics such as decolonization, coup d'état, police brutality, and the suppression of political dissent. Through interviews, archival footage, and expert analysis, Death Squads: The French School paints a grim portrait of the institutional brutality and cruelty that characterized this dark period in Latin American history.

In 1977, when she was four years old, Albertina Carri's parents vanished without a trace, victims of Argentina's brutal military junta. In this fresh and politically daring film, the young Argentinian filmmaker attempts to unravel the mystery, piecing together her memories and fantasies in a quest to understand her parents' untimely fate.