
Muammar Gaddafi
Actor · 1942 – 2011 · Qasr Abu Hadi, Italian Libya
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (c. 1942 – 20 October 2011), commonly known as Colonel Gaddafi, was a Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He governed Libya as Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then as the "Brotherly Leader" of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011. He was initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism but developed his own Third International Theory. Description above from the Wikipedia article Muammar Gaddafi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies17
Movie6.9DocumentaryDocumentary about British fashion designer Ozwald Boateng.
A Man's Story
2011 · 8 votes
Movie3.4DramaAn architect and his wife see their relationship challenged.
Movie7.5DocumentaryWe live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to the post-truth world. How we got to where we are now…
HyperNormalisation
2016 · 165 votes
Movie7.3DocumentaryDocumentary about the life of Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli, an influential Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat.
Agnelli
2017 · 28 votes
Movie6.8DramaThrillerThe movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite novel, R.A. Wilson's "Illuminatus", but soon he and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers. Pepe, one of Karl's rather criminal acquaintances senses that there is money in computer cracking - he travels to east Berlin and tries to contact the KGB.
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1998 · 229 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryBEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD charts the journey of 19 year old Tecca Zendik, a contestant in the Miss Net World contest, Libya's first every beauty competition. Colonel Muammar Qaddafi hosts this competition and the film includes extraordinary footage of the Colonel. Tecca's story reveals an incredible conclusion no-one could have guessed when private jests transported the beauties to the country feared by the West in the 1980's.
Beauty Will Save the World
2003 · 2 votes
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The 1990s to the present, through the main wars of the last decades - from Iraq to Libya - but also the influence of the East on modern Western musicians (Eyvind Kang, Jessika Kenney, Trey Spruance)
Stupor Mundi: Livre 3, La plus dangereuse rencontre
Stupor Mundi: Book 3, The Most Dangerous Encounter
2019
Movie6.7DocumentaryHistoryBased on Dr. Ahron Bregman's book, this documentary examines the life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian billionaire and double agent.
The Spy Who Fell to Earth
2019 · 36 votes
MovieComedyDocumentaryROCKIN' RONNIE 80's Political Satire Comedy of Ronald Reagan Bloopers.
Rockin' Ronnie
1986
Movie6.5DocumentaryTV MovieThey’ve become the human face of inhuman barbarity. Leaders like Hitler, Idi Amin Dada, Stalin, Kim Jong Il, Saddam Hussein, Nicolae Ceausescu, Bokassa, Muammar Kadhafi, Khomeini, Mussolini and Franco governed their countries completely cut off from reality. These paranoid leaders were driven to abuse their power by the pathology of power itself. Dictators are driven by a relentless, thought-out determination to impose themselves as infallible, all-knowing and all-powerful beings. But they are also men ruled by their caprices, uncontrollable impulses, and reckless fits of frenzy, which paradoxically render them as human as anyone else. The abuses they committed were clearly atrocious, yet some of them were as outlandish as the characters portrayed in the film The Dictator. They sunk to depths worthy of Kafka: so incredibly absurd, they are outrageously funny.
Movie6.3DocumentaryFeaturing real interviews and archive footage, this documentary gives an overview of Gaddafi's tyrannical reign over Libya from his early life until his death in 2011.
Mad Dog: Gaddafi's Secret World
2014 · 3 votes
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Detailed evidence of how the IRA got arms from Libya in order to defeat the British in Ireland.
MovieDocumentaryWhen Jihan was six years old, her father flew to Cairo and never returned. Mansur Rashid Kikhia was the Foreign Minister of Libya, ambassador to the United Nations, and a human rights lawyer. After serving in Qaddafi's increasingly brutal regime, he defected from the government and became a peaceful opposition leader. Kikhia was obsessively loyal to his country but ultimately, his determination to reason with Qaddafi led to his disappearance from a hotel in Egypt in 1993.
MovieDocumentaryIn 1981, seven Libyan exiles formed the core opposition group to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Thirty years later, they are back to their country only to inherit the mess he left. The film is an intricate blend of rare first-hand accounts, propaganda archival material turned on its head, evocative cinematography and an untold history of a country.
Movie7.3DocumentaryThe documentary investigates the phenomenon of Qaddafi's elite female bodyguard corps and the tensions these women embody: tensions between Islam, modernisation in a nomadic society, a militarist feminism and an urban dictatorship.
Shadows of a Leader: Qaddafi's Female Bodyguards
2004 · 7 votes
MovieDocumentaryThe historical memory of torture, persecution and killings of homosexuals and lesbians in Spain during Franco's dictatorship provides an opportunity to tell about discrimination and homophobia in the rest of the world. Those who lived through that period recall times when being gay was a crime and the Church was completely indifferent; even the movie (and the fashion) world turned their backs. Today Spain is actually a model for enlightened social attitudes and for the freedoms achieved by the GLBT community. So it is important to remind the young of the high price paid by the older generations. One of the directors of the film, Enrique del Pozo, is a singer and actor who is openly bisexual and very famous in Spain.
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TV6.9DocumentaryNewsA United States daily progressive, nonprofit, independently syndicated program of news, analysis, and opinion.
Democracy Now!
2001 · 7 votes
TV6.5DocumentaryNewsAn in-depth look at news stories. Documentaries that take you behind the scenes giving an insight into people's lives or institutions.
Dispatches
1987 · 13 votes
TV7.0NewsDocumentaryWorld in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.
World in Action
1963 · 2 votes
TV5.5DocumentaryExposure is a current affairs strand, broadcast in the United Kingdom on the ITV network. The programme brings together six films made by different producers exploring and investigating foreign and domestic topics, reporting on issues and telling human stories. The series was commissioned for ITV by Peter Fincham, ITV Director of Television and is a sister show to year-round current affairs strand Tonight. It made its debut on Monday 26 September 2011 - airing at 22.35, directly after ITV News at Ten.
ITV Exposure
2011 · 4 votes
TV7.3DocumentaryWar & PoliticsThe documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.
How to Become a Tyrant
2021 · 251 votes
TV8.5DocumentaryWar & PoliticsBeginning with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, journalist Steve Coll chronicles the events that took place in the lead-up to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, including missed signals, failed operations and political turf wars.
Road to 9/11
2017 · 4 votes
TV7.5DocumentaryFour-part documentary recounting the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988, when 270 people lost their lives. With exclusive access to victims' families, investigators, officials and key figures.
Lockerbie
2023 · 13 votes