Protest Movies
- 2009
Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War
Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War02009HD
In the winter of 2002-'03, as the US was building its case to attack Iraq, people around the world responded with a series fo the largest peace...
- 2014
Where are you Bucharest?
Where are you Bucharest?6.22014HD
What does a retired police officer, a dog trainer, the founder of a political party and anti-government protesters have in common? They've all met on...
- 2019
Extinction Rebellion: Last Chance to Save the World?
Extinction Rebellion: Last Chance to Save the World?02019HD
A huge new global protest movement is changing public attitudes to climate change. Reporter Ben Zand gains access to the most high-profile activist...
- 2013
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer6.7762013HD
In the winter of 2011, after a controversial election, Vladimir Putin was reinstalled as president of Russia. In response, hundreds of thousands of...
- 2019
Khamsin
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Lebanon today. The traces of the civil war are all too tangible as government corruption becomes unbearable. In a country where conflict and peace...
- 2018
Swimming to Ferguson
Swimming to Ferguson02018HD
Beneath the fury of Ferguson unrest, an affable professor dedicates his life to actionable, peaceful change while attempting the grueling triple...
- 2011
Wisconsin Crisis: Why it matters to Alberta
Wisconsin Crisis: Why it matters to Alberta02011HD
An in-depth look at the early 2011 crisis for public sector unions in Wisconsin, and why it matters in Alberta.
- 1970
No Measure of Health
No Measure of Health01970HD
No Measure of Health profiles Kyle Magee, an anti-advertising activist from Melbourne, Australia, who for the past 10 years has been going out into...
- 2021
Fight the Power: The Movements That Changed America
Fight the Power: The Movements That Changed America02021HD
“Looks at the impact key movements throughout U.S. history have had in shaping our society, laws and culture. From the labor movement of the...
- 2021
Mad Youth
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The story behind the resistance of the students against the arbitrary political reforming of the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest.
- 2008
The Past is a Strange Country
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On April 28, 1986, two students, twenty-year-old Kim Se-jin and Lee Jae-ho, immolated themselves to death, shouting slogans, “No war, no...
- 2015
Larry Kramer In Love & Anger
Larry Kramer In Love & Anger6.32015HD
From the onset of the AIDS epidemic, author Larry Kramer emerged as a fiery activist, an Old Testament-style prophet full of righteous fury who...
- 2016
Disturbing the Peace
Disturbing the Peace7.62016HD
Disturbing the Peace follows a group of former enemy combatants - Israeli soldiers from the most elite units, and Palestinian fighters, many of whom...
- 2020
Tipping Point
Tipping Point6.72020HD
Enter the Watch Dogs Legion universe in this intense chase through a dystopian London created by Emmy awards winner Alberto Mielgo. This piece is the...
- 2016
The Third Man
The Third Man02016HD
The moment where American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their gloved hands in defiance on the podium at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics...
- 1968
Before the Truth
Before the Truth6.61968HD
Two men, who have been fighting on the enemy sides in WWII, meet in the jazz club twenty years after. Mladen, who was a partisan at the time,...
- 2020
Not Done: Women Remaking America
Not Done: Women Remaking America72020HD
"Not Done: Women Remaking America" chronicles the seismic eruption of women's organizing from the 2016 election through today, and the intersectional...
- 2015
Strangeways: Britain's Toughest Prison Riot
Strangeways: Britain's Toughest Prison Riot02015HD
Twenty-five years after the biggest riot in British penal history, this film brings together the ringleaders of the trouble with the prison guards...
- 2019
What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?
What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?7.22019HD
Summer 2017, a string of brutal police killings of young African American men has sent shockwaves throughout the country. A Black community in the...
- 2022
Tear It Down
Tear It Down02022HD
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...