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Summary: A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during Pol Pot's bloody Year Zero cleansing campaign.
Runtime: 2 h 21 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 14,400,000
Domestic: $ 34,700,291
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Summary: An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
Runtime: 1 h 58 min
MPAA: R

Language: Spanish
Domestic: $ 2,343,664
International: $ 5,355,431
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Summary: Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
Runtime: 1 h 33 min
MPAA: PG-13

Domestic: $ 7,123,919
International: $ 1,221,379
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Summary: An anthropologist goes to Haiti to research a drug that makes someone appear dead by suspending all vital signs.
Runtime: 1 h 38 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 7,000,000
Domestic: $ 19,595,031
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Summary: Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: TV-PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 45,200
International: $ 46,633
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Summary: The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
Runtime: 2 h 07 min
MPAA: M/PG

Countries: France, Algeria
Language: French
Domestic: $ 83,305
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Summary: A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
Runtime: 1 h 55 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 13,000,000
Domestic: $ 10,278,575
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Summary: When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.
Runtime: 2 h 02 min
MPAA: 14+

Countries: United States, Mexico
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 9,500,000
Domestic: $ 14,000,000
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Summary: In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose work is re-writing history, tries to rebel. He meets a kindred spirit named Julia and they fall into a love affair.
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000
Domestic: $ 8,430,492
International: $ 1,052
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Summary: The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.
Runtime: 1 h 42 min
MPAA: 14A

Countries: United States, Mexico
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,316,495
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Summary: A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
Runtime: 1 h 43 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000
Domestic: $ 3,103,716
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Summary: Laura is trying to pick up the pieces of her life after the murder of her husband and son, and goes on vacation with her sister to Burma. After losing her passport at a political rally, she is left on her own for a few days, durin...
Runtime: 1 h 40 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 23,000,000
Domestic: $ 5,750,110
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Summary: Brazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador. Now, the diplomat's life hangs in the balance - helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate - and his fear of the captors themselves.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: R

Countries: Brazil, United States
Language: Portuguese
Domestic: $ 397,517
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Summary: In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, four soldiers set out to steal gold that was stolen from Kuwait, but they discover people who desperately need their help.
Runtime: 1 h 54 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 75,000,000
Domestic: $ 60,652,036
International: $ 47,100,000