Political Activism Movies

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.

In Ethiopia, in a small country school, children have a lesson on the Millennium Development Goals. But one of the pupils, Tiya, is distracted, she...

"Impressões" rescues the history of the Brazilian press since 1808, when the "Correio Brasiliense" clandestinely reached Rio de Janeiro after...

Activist-pranksters Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano pull the rug out from under mega-corporations, government officials and a complacent media in a...

At a time when the far right is ascending to power around the world, the 2020 Brazilian municipal elections saw a surprising and unprecedented record...

In an insurrectionary climate, four twenty-year-old friends talk about politics. As a big protest looms, one of them, Clara, has to write a college...

A political drama about a scandal-ridden politician who is thrown out of office in a landmark election and finds himself facing corruption charges...

A comic, biting and revelatory documentary following a small group of prankster activists as they gain worldwide notoriety for impersonating the...

Four years later, Hong Kong’s 2014 democratic Umbrella Movement has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, yet political backlash against...

The story of The Satanic Temple, a controversial movement that combines religion and activism with the apparent purpose of questioning the basic...

Throughout Hong Kong’s history, Hongkongers have fought for freedom and democracy but have yet to succeed. In 2019, a controversial extradition...

When two people meet one night in London, their relationship blossoms and fractures, intertwined with impending societal collapse.

A nun who acts as a counselor in a home for unwed mother undergoes political awakening when her friend and namesake belonging to the same...

Three Croatian activists struggle to change the world. As children, they lived through the violent collapse of Yugoslavia. But now, amid the...

When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying...

Dancing in Dulias was made by members of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) and Lesbians Against Pit Closures during and immediate after the...

In a year of uprisings and political unrest, Stonebreakers documents the fights around monuments in the United States and explores the shifting...

L, a student in India witness to the government's violent response to university protests, writes letters to her estranged lover while he is away.

Chris Marker and François Reichenbach document the massive anti–Vietnam War protest held in Washington, D.C., on October 21, 1967, where...