Latin American History Movies

In 2002, the greatest prison in Latin America, Complex Carandiru, was demolished. A couple of months before its implosion, director Paulo Sacramento...

Juana Sapire returns to the city from which she had to go into exile in 1976 to testify in a historic trial over the disappearance of her husband,...

The interview, held on January 4, 2001, was the last given by Professor Milton Santos, who died from cancer on June 24 of the same year. The...

Jorge, a young Ecuadorian, is unexpectedly in the middle of the jungle as an inexperienced soldier. At first, Jorge is confident that military...

The visions experienced by a man in the midst of Chile’s social revolt lead him to revisit different moments of his life while his mind wanders...

A portrait of Jaime Roldos, Ecuador's first democratically elected president, who died with his family when their plane crashed in the mountains.

Documentary inspired by the book by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano "Open Veins of Latin America".

Footage from the first ever São Paulo LGBTQ Pride Parade, which took place on the 28th of June 1997 on Avenida Paulista. The annual event...

A young Colombian woman confronts her father and best friend, who resist her taking to the streets to protest for fear of the repression and violence...

The Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry produces this short film that tries to explain the causes of the coup, anchoring them in debt...

This is a documentary produced by Richard Freeman. This part contains the now famous 1992 protest in which the Henry Administration Building was...

1982 is not a year, it is a number. It is the number of massacres that occurred in Colombia. Using a Hollywood film from 1919 the film creates a...