Political Activism Movies

  • 1983
    Citizen: The Political Life of Allard K. Lowenstein

    Citizen: The Political Life of Allard K. Lowenstein

    Citizen: The Political Life of Allard K. Lowenstein

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    Chronicles the life of Allard K. Lowenstein, the political activist and Congressman known for his tireless anti-war and civil rights activism.

    Citizen: The Political Life of Allard K. Lowenstein
  • 2022
    TripleF***

    TripleF***

    TripleF***

    02022HD

    A documentary on climate activism on 6 continents

    TripleF***
  • 2020
    We Have Boots

    We Have Boots

    We Have Boots

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    The Umbrella Movement of 2014, also known as the Occupy Movement, paved the way for Hong Kong’s current upheavals, but unfolded in...

    We Have Boots
  • 2021
    When a City Rises

    When a City Rises

    When a City Rises

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    Behind the gas masks of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, the often very young activists are just as diverse as the youths of the rest of the...

    When a City Rises
  • 2016
    Peter Handke: In the Woods, Might Be Late

    Peter Handke: In the Woods, Might Be Late

    Peter Handke: In the Woods, Might Be Late

    5.82016HD

    In the sixties, Peter Handke was one of the first to show how the business works: the writer as angry young man and pop star of the literary scene....

    Peter Handke: In the Woods, Might Be Late
  • 2007
    Resistance

    Resistance

    Resistance

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    In the panorama of Kurdish music, Koma Berxwedan (Group Resistance) is one of the most interesting, innovative, experimental groups. To a deep love...

    Resistance
  • 2022
    Russia vs. Russia

    Russia vs. Russia

    Russia vs. Russia

    6.72022HD

    More than twenty years after Vladimir Putin came to supreme power in Russia on May 7, 2000, Russian society is deeply divided. A young, modern...

    Russia vs. Russia
  • 1971
    Huey P. Newton: Prelude to Revolution

    Huey P. Newton: Prelude to Revolution

    Huey P. Newton: Prelude to Revolution

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    Hear the inside story of Huey Newton and the Black Panthers with this documentary that examines their efforts to promote the rights of African...

    Huey P. Newton: Prelude to Revolution
  • 2010
    Lula, the Son of Brazil

    Lula, the Son of Brazil

    Lula, the Son of Brazil

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    The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in...

    Lula, the Son of Brazil
  • 2001
    The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein

    The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein

    The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein

    5.62001HD

    A cri de coeur against Iraq War I from writer-director John Gianvito (Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind).

    The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein
  • 2021
    Danube

    Danube

    Danube

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    Argentina, 1968. In the midst of the Cold War, the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía (1966-70) organizes the 9th Mar del Plata Film Festival...

    Danube
  • 1990
    Berkeley in the Sixties

    Berkeley in the Sixties

    Berkeley in the Sixties

    5.81990HD

    A documentary about militant student political activity at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s.

    Berkeley in the Sixties
  • 2025
    The Price of Purity

    The Price of Purity

    The Price of Purity

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    An experimental, activist short-film following Quinn, who falls pregnant, but did not have the freedom to choose. So she takes matters into her own...

    The Price of Purity
  • 2024
    Night Is Not Eternal

    Night Is Not Eternal

    Night Is Not Eternal

    6.72024HD

    For seven years, award-winning Chinese-American filmmaker Nanfu Wang follows Rosa María Payá, daughter of the five time Nobel Peace...

    Night Is Not Eternal
  • 2016
    Raise The Umbrellas

    Raise The Umbrellas

    Raise The Umbrellas

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

    Raise The Umbrellas
  • 2005
    Grilled Cheese Sandwich

    Grilled Cheese Sandwich

    Grilled Cheese Sandwich

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    Something is cooking in the town of Grimsville, Ontario. A bunch of wayward youths take on Grimsville High, Squirrely's Pizza and the Moose Meat...

    Grilled Cheese Sandwich
  • 2022
    Spain: A Country Divided

    Spain: A Country Divided

    Spain: A Country Divided

    32022HD

    Obsessively referring to the traumas and wounds that the Spanish civil war (1936-39) and Franco's dictatorship (1939-75) caused in their day no...

    Spain: A Country Divided
  • 2018
    The State Against Mandela and the Others

    The State Against Mandela and the Others

    The State Against Mandela and the Others

    6.62018HD

    South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country...

    The State Against Mandela and the Others
  • 2010
    A Good Day to Die

    A Good Day to Die

    A Good Day to Die

    6.52010HD

    Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader who looks back at his early life and the rise of...

    A Good Day to Die
  • 2017
    The Brave Class

    The Brave Class

    The Brave Class

    6.72017HD

    Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the words we use to describe it. Through research,...

    The Brave Class