En tidligere specialstyrke-agent tager et job for at sørge for sikkerhed for en journalist, da hun interviewer en diktator, men et militærkup bryder ud midt i interviewet, de er tvunget til at flygte ind i junglen, hvor de skal overleve.
Nicholas Garrigan er en nyuddannet, idealistisk, rejselysten skotsk læge der ønsker at bruge sin uddannelse på at opleve verden. Hvad der i første omgang virker som en kombination af tilfældighed og held fører ham til Uganda og til mødet med en af verdens mest babariske figurer: IDI AMIN. Det bliver et uigenkaldeligt, indviklet, fascinerende og skæbnesbetonet møde med 70’ernes selvudpegede nyudnævnte præsident for Uganda. Præsident Amin udnævner med tiden Garrigan som sin personlige læge og nærmeste fortrolige rådgiver. Snart oplever Garrigan Amins utilregnelige og ukontrollerede vildskab og brutale handlinger – og sin egen ufrivillige deltagelse heri. Det er et spørgsmål om tid, hvis Garrigan skal undslippe Amin og komme levende ud af Uganda.
I 1988 tvinger et massivt internationalt pres den chilenske militærdiktator Augusto Pinochet til at afholde folkeafstemning om sit formandskab. Oppositionens ledere overtaler en smart ung reklamemand til at stå i spidsen for kampagnen, der skal få det chilenske folk til at stemme NEJ!
Havet indeholder historien om hele menneskeheden, og indeholder alle stemmer fra både jorden og fra det ydre rum. Havet får sin kraft fra stjernerne og forvandler den til levende væsener. Havet besidder også hemmeligheden om to mystiske knapper, som blev fundet på dets bund. Chile, med dens kystlinje på 2,670 mil og den største øgruppe i verden, præsenterer et overnaturligt landskab med både vulkaner, bjerge og gletsjere. I landskabet findes stemmer fra det oprindelige patagonske folk, de første engelske sømænd samt stemmerne fra deres politiske fanger. Man siger, at havet har en hukommelse. I denne film får den også har en stemme.
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
Conta-me como foi (transl. Tell me how it was) is a Portuguese television drama series which has been broadcast on RTP1 of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal from 2007 to 2011 and since 2019. It recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Lopes (Portuguese: Os Lopes), during the last years of the Estado Novo. In February 2019, RTP announced that the series, after eight years shelved, would be renewed, with the storyline moving firmly into the 1980s. The first episode of the sixth season was broadcast on 7 December 2019 with the Lopes entering 1984.
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.
Mussolini seized power in Italy in 1922, after his March on Rome. He would hold it in his grasp until his death in 1945, establishing a dictatorship that lasted more than 20 years. Long considered a buffoon and a second-rate dictator, Il Duce invented fascism that was imitated by Hitler, who viewed the Italian as his political master. He wanted to transform his country into a warrior nation and promised Italians a return to the grandeur of the Roman Empire. He governed by violence and trickery and was one of the first populist leaders of modern times, leading his country into the catastrophe of the World War II. But who was Mussolini, this former teacher who came from the extreme left to become a newspaper editor and creator of the Fascist Party? Why did he ally himself with Hitler? Were the Italians really behind him? With archives and interviews with the last-surviving witnesses of the era, this portrait takes a look back at one of the most notorious dictators of the 20th century.
Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator.
Freedom is a short-lived 2000 American science fiction television show on the UPN network. There were 12 episodes filmed but only 7 were aired in the US. Some episodes were further aired internationally, and the full series is still occasionally broadcast in Brazil.
Three years in the making, this comprehensive study of the Soviet dictator blends documentary footage and interviews with experts and surviving witnesses.
