Miguel Littin

The camera watches a grindingly poor Chilean meets a destitute widow and her several small children who have been evicted from their hut and cast into the street. Later, in a drunken rage at his own inability--and what seems to be his recognition that they will come to nothing better--he brutally murders them. While awaiting execution he is cleaned-up, learns to read, and begins to have an inkling of consciousness of the world beyond. (imdb)

Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. (imdb)

Romanian engineer Julius Popper (Jorge Perugorría) organizes a band of men to help him enslave South American Indians and find gold.

After the 1973 coup that deposed Allende and brought Pinochet to power in Chile, the former members of his cabinet are imprisoned on Dawson Island. (imdb)

The story of the massacre of the Chilean miners of Marusia, in 1907, ordered by the government to preserve the control by foreign companies over Chile's resources.

Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before he is finally ousted, only to die in obscurity in Paris. (allmovie.com)

The story concerns the efforts of Jose Duran to improve conditions for his fellow peasants. When he begins to be involved in issues of surrounding regions, he calls attention to himself and his group, and their small successes are imperiled. (movies.nytimes.com)

In 1985 Miguel Littin clandestinely returns to Chile and makes this three-part documentary about the political reality of the country. (Filmaffinity)

The last 7 hours of former President of Chile Salvador Allende, and his closest collaborators inside the Palace of La Moneda, during the brutal military coup d'etat on Sept. 11, 1973, the day democracy in Chile ended. Based on true events. (imdb)

The US tried to occupy Nicaragua in 1927. General Cesar Augusto Sandino and his guerrillas begin armed resistance. (imdb)

Palestine 1914. One morning in July, Soliman, a young Palestinian Christian, and Jacob, his Jewish friend, begin to build a house in Beit-Sajour, in the Judean hills, with stones brought from Beit-Yala, while the apparent stillness of the place is interrupted by bursts of violence that anticipate the future days of war. (Filmaffinity)