Riot Movies

On August 1, 1942, a 22-year-old Mexican American man was stabbed to death at a party. To white Los Angelenos, the murder was just more proof that...

The small coastal town of Roquesas de Mar (village invented by the author) is shocked by the disappearance of one of her neighbors sixteen years of...

A man that is a stranger, is an incredibly easy man to hate. However, walking in a stranger’s shoes, even for a short while, can transform a...

The leaders of Egypt's 2011 revolution discuss the fire, courage and resiliency behind their movement to remove President Hosni Mubarak from office.

This visceral cinematic snapshot is an inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera. Using different video and film...

In a country shaken by major political events, three generations of a Greek family clash over an inside-the-family adoption.

A young balladeer raised in the United States returns to Colombia to continue her career. Her plans do not align with her mother's, a famous singer...

They were called ‘the golden generation’, the young Yugoslavian soccer players who won the Junior World Soccer Championships in 1987 in...

This 1964 training film, “Mob and Riot Control,” was produced by Charles Cahill and Associates, Inc and presented by Federal...

A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film...

HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the LA Riots, the most destructive riot in American...

A Swiss political documentary about the Zurich youth unrest of 1968

An in-depth analysis on the 40th Anniversary of the life and untimely death of Arthur Lee McDuffie at the hands of Miami Dade police officers.

A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural...

Jan 6th, a violent attack against the US occurred at the Capitol. Five people died and 140+ injured. Before the dust had settled and with strict...

As riots erupt across the nation, a man isolates himself in front of the TV, obsessively watching the live news to understand what sparked the...

Everyone has their secrets. Everyone has the past no one’s heard about. But what makes an entire generation sit in stunned silence with...

Radical resistance in the postwar British Caribbean community, from the 1948 Nationality Act to the 1958 Brixton riots.