The Act of Killing (2012)
• November 1st, 2012 • 1h 57min
Documentary
Overview
In this chilling and groundbreaking documentary, former Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of various film genres, from gangster epics to musicals. As they recreate their past atrocities, the line between reality and performance blurs, exposing the lingering impact of Indonesia’s 1965-66 anti-communist purge and the unsettling psychology of its perpetrators.”
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Alsina's Trench
Released on: 2017-01-01
Documentary, History
Documentary film about the "zanja de Alsina", a long trench dug in the Argentinian Pampa in 1876 as ...
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Released on: 2018-03-24
Documentary, TV Movie
A documentary following the civil rights movement and how the media, in particular the burgeoning TV...
Lakota Nation vs. United States
Released on: 2022-06-11
Documentary, History
Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her Oyate’s connection to the Black Hills, thro...
The Killing of a Journalist
Released on: 2022-08-23
Documentary, Crime
A young investigative journalist and his fiancée are brutally murdered in their home in Slovakia. Th...
Saynatakuna: Masks and Transfigurations in Paukartambo
Released on: 2015-05-23
Documentary
An ethnographic film that tells the story of the mask makers and dancers during the festival of the ...
Sicko
Released on: 2007-05-18
Documentary, Comedy, Drama
A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make p...
Ritratti: Andrea Zanzotto
Released on: 2000-09-01
Documentary
Marco Paolini discusses with poet Andrea Zanzotto about nature, history and language.
Smog Wars
Released on: 2018-12-02
Documentary
Following the historically smoggy Polish winter of 2016/2017, a Warsaw father of an asthmatic son se...
“May Your Memory Be Love“ - The Story of Ovadia Baruch
Released on: 2008-12-16
Documentary, History
In March 1943, twenty-year-old Ovadia Baruch was deported together with his family from Greece to Au...
The Society of the Spectacle
Released on: 1974-05-01
Documentary
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
Housewives: A Forgotten History
Released on: 2022-05-10
Documentary, History
After World War II, many young French women became housewives, convinced that devoting themselves en...
Taking the Hill
Released on: 2006-12-12
Documentary
Over the years, Raul Ries, a military veteran (US Marine Corps) has reached out to those who are ser...
Caudillo
Released on: 1977-10-14
Documentary
Caudillo is a documentary film by Spanish film director Basilio Martín Patino. It follows the milita...
Civil: Ben Crump
Released on: 2022-06-17
Documentary
Crump's mission to raise the value of Black life as the civil lawyer for the families of George Floy...
The Session
Released on: 2020-12-27
Documentary
In some of Cleveland, Ohio’s most dangerous neighborhoods, a unique subculture uses the powerful exp...
Ajyal
Released on:
Documentary
Three generations of Saudi women reflect on their lives through the decades of dramatic regional cul...
It's Hard Being Loved by Jerks
Released on: 2008-09-17
Documentary, History, Crime, Drama
The murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamic extremist in 2004, followed by the publish...