The Hour of the Furnaces (Spanish: La hora de los hornos) is a 1968 Argentine film directed by Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas.

They included a revisionist perspective of history as well as a focus on the Peronist working class as the central figure in Argentina's revolutionary change.

Because of the film's adherence to forbidden Peronism, particularly its most extreme wing, its revolutionary demands, and the desire to inscribe it into the fights for social change, they had to resort to an alternate screening circuit when a new military dictatorship came to power in 1966.

This form of montage results in the viewer seeing the event as a kind of performance by the rich, expressing their best qualities in order to gain social status.

The documentary also displays some of the cons that come with a capitalist states that are not able to give everyone the same opportunities due to lack of resources, classism, or desire for more wealth while others struggle.

Due to political considerations of the time, The Hour of the Furnaces saw an incredibly limited release in Argentina and was primarily shown in underground clubs and organizations.

[5] Writing in the New York Times, critic Vincent Canby described the movie as "a unique film exploration of a nation's soul.

Grupo Cine Liberación began screening the film on a clandestine exhibition circuit as soon as it was completed, aided by mobile units in the major cities.