totalitarianism

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totalitarianism

The cave

2002
Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his daughter Marta and her husband in a small village just outside an imposing complex of shops, apartment blocks, offices, and sensation zones, which seems to be overtaking the more laidback culture Cipriano is used to.

Brave new world

Bernard Marx feels empty despite living in a world where everyone is provided for, babies are genetically engineered to be perfect, and there is no violence.

What is a dictatorship?

2013
Examines the type of government known as dictatorship, discussing what it is, who were and are dictators, how a dictator comes to be in power and more.

The Stalin revolution

foundations of Soviet totalitarianism
1972

Rebeli?n en la granja

2002
A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm, but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.

Fahrenheit 451

2010
In a society in which books are outlawed, Guy Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read, but when he becomes a hunted fugitive, Montag is forced to make a choice between personal safety and intellectual freedom. Presented in Spanish.

1984

2007
Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth in the political entity of Oceania, puts his life on the line when he joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the Party that controls all human thought and action.

V for Vendetta

2006
Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, the story of a young working-class woman, Evey, whois rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man known only as 'V.'.

Fahrenheit 451

2004
After learning that books are a vital part of a culture he never knew, a book-burning official in a future fascist state clandestinely pursues reading until he is betrayed.

La composici?n

2004
When nine-year-old Pedro goes to school, a soldier from his country's dictatorship orders the students to write a composition about the nightime activities of their families.

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