Muammar Gaddafi

Acting

Muammar Gaddafi

Born — Died

1942-06-07 — 2011-10-20

Place of birth

Qasr Abu Hadi, Italian Libya

Known for

Acting

Credits

34 titles

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.

Known for

Democracy Now! poster
6.9

A United States daily progressive, nonprofit, independently syndicated program of news, analysis, and opinion.

Democracy Now!

2001

World in Action poster
7.0

World 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

Dispatches poster
6.5

An in-depth look at news stories. Documentaries that take you behind the scenes giving an insight into people's lives or institutions.

Dispatches

1987

ITV Exposure poster
5.5

Exposure 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

Road to 9/11 poster
8.4

Beginning 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

How to Become a Tyrant poster
7.3

The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.

How to Become a Tyrant

2021

Film credits

2020s · 6 titles

Under the spell of the bomb poster
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Documentary about whistleblower Frits Veerman, who in the 1970s exposed the nuclear espionage at Urenco in which his Pakistani colleague Abdul Khan smuggled nuclear data out of the country. He was fired and fought for 40 years for rehabilitation. Frans Bromet examines the moral compass of the headstrong whistleblower in the politically shadowy and high-profile espionage scandal. Bromet wants to understand what underlies years of backroom politics, an intelligence agency that refuses to grant access to the file, and international interests that apparently prevail over the protection of an observant citizen by his government. The fact that the Dutch State takes no responsibility in this matter weighs heavily, literally and figuratively, on Veerman. The threat of a nuclear bomb remains real. Will a potential rehabilitation offer the satisfaction he has been waiting for forty years?

Under the spell of the bomb

2021

Deleuzenal poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Deleuzenal

2026

Gaddafi in Rome: Anatomy of a Friendship poster
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Alessandra Ferrini examines a photograph from an official visit by Gaddafi to Italy during the Berlusconi era. The film delves into the connections between Italy’s colonial past and its contemporary politics.

Gaddafi in Rome: Anatomy of a Friendship

2025

My Father and Qaddafi poster
NR

​​When 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.

My Father and Qaddafi

2025

The Colonel's Stray Dogs poster
NR

In 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.

The Colonel's Stray Dogs

2021

Muammar Gaddafi: Inside the Dictator's Mind poster
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Muammar Kadhafi ruled Libya for 42 years. 4 decades that ended in 2011, during which he tyrannized his entourage, his people and the world. He became the archetype of political evil. In the manner of a historical thriller and criminal investigation, this film explores the psychology of the dictator, Machiavellian, paranoid, megalomaniac, perverse, manipulative, narcissistic and predatory… Like a “profiler” analyzing the behavior of a serial killer, this film plunges viewers into the brain of a man who, according to a secret CIA report that has since been declassified, was “on the verge of madness”.

Muammar Gaddafi: Inside the Dictator's Mind

2024

2010s · 13 titles

HyperNormalisation poster
7.5

We 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

An Eye for Beauty poster
3.4

An architect and his wife see their relationship challenged.

An Eye for Beauty

2014

A Man's Story poster
6.9

Documentary about British fashion designer Ozwald Boateng.

A Man's Story

2011

The Spy Who Fell to Earth poster
6.7

Based 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

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NR

Detailed evidence of how the IRA got arms from Libya in order to defeat the British in Ireland.

Gadaffi and the IRA

2011

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Two Meetings and a Funeral explores Bangladesh’s historical pivot from the socialism of the 1973 Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Algeria to its ideological counterpoint, the emergence of a strong Islamic perspective at the 1974 Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) meeting in Lahore. Centred on Bangladesh’s navigation of these two historic meetings, as well as its fight for United Nations recognition (vetoed by China, acting as a proxy for Pakistan), the film considers the erosion of the idea of the Third World as a potential space for decolonialism, liberation theology and socialism. In particular, it looks at how a transnational Islamic ‘ummah’ concept was used against socialist forces.

Two Meetings and a Funeral

2017

Dictator: One Crazy Job poster
6.5

They’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.

Dictator: One Crazy Job

2013

Agnelli poster
7.3

Documentary about the life of Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli, an influential Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat.

Agnelli

2017

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NR

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: Book 3, The Most Dangerous Encounter

2019

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bokassa Ier, empereur de Françafrique

2011

Mad Dog: Gaddafi's Secret World poster
6.3

Featuring 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

The Pink Wall poster
NR

The 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.

The Pink Wall

2011

State of Denial poster
NR

A documentary on Libyan dictator Gaddafi.

State of Denial

2011

2000s · 3 titles

Series credits

Democracy Now! poster
6.9

A United States daily progressive, nonprofit, independently syndicated program of news, analysis, and opinion.

Democracy Now!

2001

World in Action poster
7.0

World 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

Dispatches poster
6.5

An in-depth look at news stories. Documentaries that take you behind the scenes giving an insight into people's lives or institutions.

Dispatches

1987

ITV Exposure poster
5.5

Exposure 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

Road to 9/11 poster
8.4

Beginning 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

How to Become a Tyrant poster
7.3

The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.

How to Become a Tyrant

2021

Lockerbie poster
7.5

Four-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

Behind the camera