Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende

Born: June 26, 1908
Died: September 11, 1973

Movies for Salvador Allende...

Con Los Ojos de Hoy
Title: Con Los Ojos de Hoy
Released: September 9, 2023
Type: Movie
Documentary that reviews Salvador Allende's last speech through various voices of today to think about the present and the future.
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Primera
Title: Primera
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 25, 2022
Type: Movie
On October 18 2019, a student uprising was triggered in Santiago over the Chilean government’s increase in metro fare. As the country awakens to the unrelenting abuse of power enacted by a neoliberalist government, and a mistrust in the political class intensifies, we follow Angy and Felipe—two parents who embrace their new roles as activists and enlist in the expanding movement that is fighting for a new Constitution and a just society.
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O Grande Irmão: O Dia que Durou 21 Anos 2
Title: O Grande Irmão: O Dia que Durou 21 Anos 2
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 8, 2022
Type: Movie
With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes of the coup in Chile that took place on September 11, 1973 - and General Pinochet's dictatorship, which lasted 17 years.
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Cybersocialism: Project Cybersyn & The CIA Coup in Chile
Title: Cybersocialism: Project Cybersyn & The CIA Coup in Chile
Character: As Himself
Released: August 18, 2021
Type: Movie
A documentary on the rise and fall of Project Cybersyn, an attempt at a computer-managed centralized economy undertaken in Chile during the presidency of Salvador Allende.
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Los Jaivas: Todos juntos
Title: Los Jaivas: Todos juntos
Character: (archive footage)
Released: November 7, 2020
Type: Movie
Los Jaivas are the most important rock band in the history of Chile. 55 years of music and friendship. Memories emerge note by note, song after song, tour after tour. An intimate portrait of their musical life where for the first time they share their archives that have been accumulated for years on the shelves of a small apartment in Santiago.
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Laboratory Greece
Title: Laboratory Greece
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 8, 2019
Type: Movie
A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories. «If Democracy can be destroyed in Greece, it can be destroyed throughout Europe» Paul Craig Roberts
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ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium
Title: ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 11, 2019
Type: Movie
For years, the murder of Chilean protest singer Victor Jara was blamed on an official in Pinochet's army. Now in exile, he tries to exonerate himself.
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Santiago, Italia
Title: Santiago, Italia
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 6, 2018
Type: Movie
After the coup d'État of the Democratic government of Allende, the embassy of Italy in Santiago played a major role in helping the opposers of the regime, and extradited many of them to Italy.
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Beyond My Grandfather Allende
Title: Beyond My Grandfather Allende
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 9, 2015
Type: Movie
Marcia, granddaughter of Salvador Allende, the first democratic socialist president who was overthrown by the Army in September 1973, seeks to reconstruct the personal and familiar image of her grandfather, buried by his historical person, her exile and the family pain.
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Chicago Boys
Title: Chicago Boys
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 8, 2015
Type: Movie
The economists behind the implementation of the most extreme capitalist system in the world observe with surprise the discontent of its countrymen. For the first time, they tell the story of how they became Milton Friedman's students in Chicago in the 1950s and what were they willing to do to pursue their extreme economic ideas, aided by Pinochet's dictatorship in the 70s. Unseen images and testimonies that allow us to understand the historic process that transformed the Chilean people and Chile in the country that it is today, an image of success and discontent.
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Title: Guerilleros
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 26, 2015
Type: TV
Exclusive testimonies of the actions taken by Chilean guerilla organization FPMR. The stories about the memebers killed in the confrontations against the CNI and the new way of fighting against the oppression Pinochet's dictatorship.
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People's Train of Culture
Title: People's Train of Culture
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 5, 2015
Type: Movie
Documentary film which tells the story of an initiative of the government of Salvador Allende, President of Chile from 1970 to 1973, the objective of which was to bring culture closer to those who had no access to it. The People’s Train of Culture was part of the 40th measure of Allende’s programme of government which aimed to create a National Institute of Arts and Culture and colleges of art in all the country’s provinces.
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Laissez-faire
Title: Laissez-faire
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 30, 2015
Type: Movie
A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our governments and our lives.
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Pinochet
Title: Pinochet
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 11, 2012
Type: Movie
Documental about the Second Independence of Chile. Images and videos from the period before and after September 11th, 1973
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Title: Mentiras verdaderas
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 11, 2011
Type: TV
Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency.
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Santiago Files
Title: Santiago Files
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 23, 2011
Type: Movie
President Salvador Allende's topple from Chile's unstable government and the CIA's involvement in the September Coup that would turn the South American socialist country into a dictatorship.
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Memória Cubana
Title: Memória Cubana
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 27, 2010
Type: Movie
Through the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the documentary shows the most relevant events of the second half of the 20th century as seen by the documentary filmmakers of the island. During three decades and under the general direction of Santiago Álvarez, these moviemakers witnessed almost everything: from the shivers of the Cold War to Bola de Nieve's piano solos; from the discovery of the killing fields in Cambodia to the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. In 2009, the original negatives of Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos were declared part of the "world memory" by UNESCO.
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The Inconclusive Independence
Title: The Inconclusive Independence
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 5, 2010
Type: Movie
Documentary about the independence and history of Latin America.
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Sabor a Victoria
Title: Sabor a Victoria
Released: November 20, 2009
Type: Movie
Just when Chile was experiencing the last months of the Popular Unity of President Salvador Allende, Colo Colo - the most popular team in Chilean soccer - faced the 1973 Copa Libertadores de América. This benchmark led by footballers Carlos Caszely, Francisco "Chamaco" Valdés and coach Luis "Zorro" Álamos, not only managed to play the final of this competition against Independiente of Argentina, but also, its brilliant game, dynamics and drive popular turned it into the necessary balm for the fans, at a time when the Chilean political and social situation became extremely acute. Thirty-four years later, the protagonists of Colo Colo 73 relive this Copa Libertadores campaign.
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Title: TV o no TV
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 11, 2008
Type: TV
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The Judge and the General
Title: The Judge and the General
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 4, 2008
Type: Movie
A Chilean judge uncovers long buried secrets of former dictator Augusto Pinochet and, in the process, must confront his own role in that dark past.
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The War on Democracy
Title: The War on Democracy
Character: Self (archive sound)
Released: June 15, 2007
Type: Movie
Set both in Latin America and the United States, the film explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. Pilger says that the film "...tells a universal story... analysing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind its venerable myths. It allows us to understand the true nature of the so-called "war on terror". According to Pilger, the film’s message is that the greed and power of empire is not invincible and that people power is always the "seed beneath the snow".
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Salvador Allende
Title: Salvador Allende
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 8, 2004
Type: Movie
A leftist revolutionary or a reformist democrat? A committed Marxist or a constitutionalist politician? An ethical and moral man or, as Richard Nixon called him, a "son of a bitch"? In SALVADOR ALLENDE, acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán (The Battle of Chile and Chile, Obstinate Memory) returns to his native country thirty years after the 1973 military coup that overthrew Chile's Popular Unity government to examine the life of its leader, Salvador Allende, both as a politician and a man.
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Bowling for Columbine
Title: Bowling for Columbine
Character: Self - President of Chile (archive footage)
Released: October 9, 2002
Type: Movie
This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old. Bowling for Columbine is a journey through the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.
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Chico
Title: Chico
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 31, 2001
Type: Movie
The adventures of a young man as he moves from the Latin-American revolutions in the sixties and seventies, through Hungary in the eighties, to the Croatian war in 1991.
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Chile: Obstinate Memory
Title: Chile: Obstinate Memory
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 25, 1997
Type: Movie
After decades of fascist rule in Chile, Patricio Guzmán returns to his country to screen his documentary The Battle of Chile.
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Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
Title: Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Documentary about the life and works of Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini.
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Chile: A Genral Record
Title: Chile: A Genral Record
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
In 1985, Miguel Littin returned clandestinely to Chile and made this documentary divided in four parts about the political reality of the country. The parts are titled, Miguel Littin: Clandestine in Chile; The North of Chile: When I Fled to the Pampa; From the Frontier to the Interior of Chile in Flames; and Allende: the Time of History, the film features testimony from Garcia Marquez, Fidel Castro and Hortensia Bussi. Also shown is the Chile of Augusto Pinochet and Salvador Allende. When Littin returned to Spain and finished his work, Gabriel Garcia Marquez set out to write the story of the film, published under the title Clandestine in Chile: the Adventures of Miguel Littin, which quickly became a best seller.
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Title: Informe especial
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 6, 1984
Type: TV
Investigative news magazine on Chile's social and political contingency.
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On Company Business
Title: On Company Business
Character: Self - Chilean President (archive footage)
Released: April 14, 1980
Type: Movie
A controversial three part critical documentary on the history of the CIA.
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The Battle of Chile: Part III
Title: The Battle of Chile: Part III
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 15, 1979
Type: Movie
Guzmán’s final installment shifts from covering the actions of Allende’s opponents to those who battled to revive & promote their toppled leader’s vision for a new Chile.
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Voyage au bout de la droite
Title: Voyage au bout de la droite
Released: April 16, 1978
Type: Movie
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Les pompiers de Santiago
Title: Les pompiers de Santiago
Released: April 9, 1978
Type: Movie
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A Grin Without a Cat
Title: A Grin Without a Cat
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1977
Type: Movie
French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America.
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The Battle of Chile: Part II
Title: The Battle of Chile: Part II
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 13, 1976
Type: Movie
Chronicles the events immediately surrounding the CIA- supported coup itself.
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The Battle of Chile: Part I
Title: The Battle of Chile: Part I
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 18, 1975
Type: Movie
The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
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I Was, I Am, I Will Be
Title: I Was, I Am, I Will Be
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 10, 1974
Type: Movie
In the spring of 1974, a camera team from Studio H&S succeeded against the explicit orders of the Junta’s Chancellery, entered into two large concentration camps in the north of the country - Chacabuco and Pisagua - leaving with filmed sequences and sound recordings.
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Mitbürger
Title: Mitbürger
Character: Self
Released: February 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Salvador Allende’s last radio speech is given in full; nothing is interposed. The translation of the speech appears in subtitles, individual passages are placed into the center of the picture. Film scenes and photos underline Allende’s call to his citizens. The film ends with a slow close-up to the face of the President.
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You Speak of Chile: What Allende Said
Title: You Speak of Chile: What Allende Said
Released: October 20, 1973
Type: Movie
Salvador Allende interviewed by Régis Debray in 1971.
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Interview with Salvador Allende: Power and Reason
Title: Interview with Salvador Allende: Power and Reason
Character: Self - Interviewee
Released: September 15, 1973
Type: Movie
An interview with the president of Chile conducted by Roberto Rossellini in 1971, but broadcast only after his death.
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Chile, el gran desafío
Title: Chile, el gran desafío
Character: Himself
Released: March 10, 1973
Type: Movie
After providing a pictorial vision of Chile, from north to south, President Salvador Allende's tour of the following countries is recorded: Mexico, Algeria, USSR, USA and Cuba. In each place, scenes of welcoming demonstrations, official acts and typical archive notes are presented.
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Chile 1973 - Workers do not participate in the government, they are the government
Title: Chile 1973 - Workers do not participate in the government, they are the government
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Documentary about the process of socialist transformation initiated by the Unidad Popular government, a review of its difficulties and achievements, on the eve of the parliamentary elections of March 1973.
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Compromiso con Chile
Title: Compromiso con Chile
Released: September 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Made by Fernando Balmaceda in 1972, it is a documentary that shows the presence of the State Technical University throughout Chile through its provincial headquarters, with teaching, scientific research, technological development, cultural extension and the relationship with the historical moment of the country.
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El Diálogo de América
Title: El Diálogo de América
Character: Él mismo
Released: June 1, 1972
Type: Movie
In November 1971, Salvador Allende and Fidel Castro chat to each other about revolution, imperialism, oligarchy, underdevelopment, cultural dependency and economics.
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Blazing Continent
Title: Blazing Continent
Character: self
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Roman Karmen's documentary on the political turmoil of 1970s Latin America.
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Compañero Presidente
Title: Compañero Presidente
Character: Self
Released: May 3, 1971
Type: Movie
On January 4, 1971, an extensive dialogue takes place between the president of Chile Salvador Allende and the French intellectual Regis Debray, a discussion about the Chilean process towards the installation of a socialist government. Filmed by a team from Chilefilms, a state-owned company dedicated to the production of audiovisual works, it is a unique testimony to Allende's thinking in the first year of his government.
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Conversation with Allende
Title: Conversation with Allende
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
This interview was conducted shortly after the late President Dr. Salvador Allende won the Chilean elections of 1970. Dr. Salvador Allende was the first democratically elected socialist president in Latin America. Three years later, Allende was killed during a coupe lead by General that overthrew the Allende government.
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Le train de la victoire
Title: Le train de la victoire
Released: July 19, 1964
Type: Movie
A film about Salvador Allende's 1964 presidential campaign.