Movies and TvShows featuring "totalitarian-regime" theme.
Moscow, 1953. Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin dies after being in power for nearly 30 years. Now, members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power in a chaotic struggle for control.
In a future of mass surveillance and political repression, Winston Smith begins a forbidden love affair amidst the constant surveillance and manipulation of the Party.
In a dystopian future, after a devastating Third World War, Libria is governed by the Tetragrammaton Council which bans emotions and enforces conformity. Grammaton Cleric First Class John Preston, the highest-ranking cleric, becomes an unlikely hero as he discovers emotions and joins the resistance to bring down the totalitarian government.
Learn how six dictators, from Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, shaped the 20th century. How did they seize and lose power? What forces were against them? Learn the answers in these six immersive hours, each a revealing portrait of brutality and power.
In the midst of the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive must navigate the political complexities of Berlin and the clash between communism and capitalism when his boss's daughter gets involved with a communist from the Soviet Union.
Set in 1950s Soviet Union, a disgraced Soviet policeman embarks on an undercover mission to investigate a series of child murders. As he delves deeper into the case, he uncovers a conspiracy that challenges everything he knows about the totalitarian regime.
Set in a dystopian future, THX 1138 tells the story of a man named THX 1138 who rebels against the oppressive government that controls every aspect of society. As he begins to question his controlled existence, he falls in love with a woman named LUH 3417 and the two plan to escape the prison-like society they live in. Their journey takes them through a maze of tunnels and ultimately leads them to confront the totalitarian regime. Will they be able to break free and find freedom?
In a modern twist on the classic tale, Robyn Loxley and The Hood, a masked hip-hop band, take on the role of a modern Robin Hood as they use their music to call out injustices and fight for freedom and equality in New Nottingham.
The Tale of Despereaux follows the story of a courageous mouse who embarks on a quest to rescue a princess, forming an unlikely friendship along the way. Filled with adventure, comedy, and fantasy, this animated film explores themes of forgiveness, chivalry, and the power of friendship.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Mao Tsetung established a system of labor camps for systematic repression, known as Laogai, an abbreviation for "Reform Through Labor". In such camps, forced labor and physical and mental torture were used to bring about a so-called mental reform, re-education in the spirit of the Chinese Communist Party. Millions of Chinese were affected. Many were executed. In hundreds of camps, the Party took advantage of the prisoners' free labor to build the economy. Self-criticism and denunciation were often the only way to escape martyrdom. Successive waves of purges culminated in the Cultural Revolution, which saw massive human rights abuses, political assassinations, massacres, and exiles in remote parts of the country. Using unreleased archive footage, the documentary tells the story of the invention, development and improvement of China's totalitarian system of surveillance and repression up to the present day, never told before.
Before Night Falls tells the story of Reinaldo Arenas, an openly gay Cuban poet and novelist, as he navigates the challenges of living under a totalitarian regime. Despite facing political oppression and social intolerance, Arenas continues to write and express himself, eventually becoming a political refugee and finding hope and freedom in New York City.
Persepolis is a powerful and poignant animated film that tells the story of Marjane, a young Iranian girl coming of age during the Islamic Revolution. As she grows up in Tehran, she witnesses the changes in her country and the impact they have on her family and herself. From her childhood dreams of revolution to her experiences as a teenager studying abroad, Persepolis explores themes of identity, freedom, and the complex relationship between Iran and the West.
Rock & Roll spread the sound of freedom across the Iron Curtain and throughout Eastern Europe and the USSR, despite Communist attempts to outlaw it and to crush what they perceived was a contamination of their youth. Over the next thirty years, thousands of underground bands and millions of young fans who yearned for Western values helped fuel the nonvio- lent implosion of the Soviet regime. FREE TO ROCK features Presidents, diplomats, spies and rock stars from the West, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe who reveal how Rock & Roll music was a contributing factor in ending the Cold
In a bleak and oppressive totalitarian society ruled by Big Brother, personal freedoms are nonexistent and surveillance is constant. Art is mocked and destroyed, and imagination is considered a serious illness. In this grim world, a brilliant mathematician engages in a forbidden romance with a colleague and learns about a secret resistance. He is faced with a choice - to join or betray it.
In a future society, books are banned and burned by the government to control the population's access to information. Guy Montag, a fireman, begins to question his role in this totalitarian regime and secretly starts reading books. As he delves deeper into literature, he becomes disillusioned with the society he once defended.
Apocalypse: Stalin is a documentary TV show that delves into the life of Joseph Stalin, the Russian revolutionary and political leader. It explores his rise to power, the policies of his despotic rule, and the impact of his regime on the Soviet Union. The show covers key events such as the Great Purge, the Russian Revolution, and the Great Patriotic War.
Alex Jones interviews Walter Burien, commodity trading adviser (CTA) of 15 years about the biggest game in town. There are over 85,000 federal and regional governmental institutions: school districts, water and power authorities, county and city governments – and they own over 70 percent of the stock market.
In a near-future dystopia, a female convict is imprisoned in a maximum-security space prison. She must navigate a sadistic guard, a totalitarian regime, and mind control while attempting to escape the prison and survive.
Salvador (Puig Antich) is a movie that tells the true story of a Spanish anarchist in 1974 who becomes a symbol of resistance against the Francoist regime. The film explores his activism, his arrest, and the political tensions of the time. It showcases the harsh realities of police brutality, torture, and the struggle for freedom in a totalitarian regime.
The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it? Or is the act of being part in democracy dependent to the access on technology, progression or any resources of information, as philosophers like Paul Virilio or Jean Baudrillard already claimed?