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 War

    Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War

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    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...

    Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War
  • 2014
    Where are you Bucharest?

    Where are you Bucharest?

    Where are you Bucharest?

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    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...

    Where are you Bucharest?
  • 2019
    Extinction Rebellion: Last Chance to Save the World?

    Extinction Rebellion: Last Chance to Save the World?

    Extinction Rebellion: Last Chance to Save the World?

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    A huge new global protest movement is changing public attitudes to climate change. Reporter Ben Zand gains access to the most high-profile activist...

    Extinction Rebellion: Last Chance to Save the World?
  • 2013
    Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

    Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

    Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

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    In the winter of 2011, after a controversial election, Vladimir Putin was reinstalled as president of Russia. In response, hundreds of thousands of...

    Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
  • 2019
    Khamsin

    Khamsin

    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...

    Khamsin
  • 2018
    Swimming to Ferguson

    Swimming to Ferguson

    Swimming to Ferguson

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    Beneath the fury of Ferguson unrest, an affable professor dedicates his life to actionable, peaceful change while attempting the grueling triple...

    Swimming to Ferguson
  • 2011
    Wisconsin Crisis: Why it matters to Alberta

    Wisconsin Crisis: Why it matters to Alberta

    Wisconsin Crisis: Why it matters to Alberta

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    An in-depth look at the early 2011 crisis for public sector unions in Wisconsin, and why it matters in Alberta.

    Wisconsin Crisis: Why it matters to Alberta
  • 1970
    No Measure of Health

    No Measure of Health

    No Measure of Health

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    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...

    No Measure of Health
  • 2021
    Fight the Power: The Movements That Changed America

    Fight the Power: The Movements That Changed America

    Fight the Power: The Movements That Changed America

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    “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...

    Fight the Power: The Movements That Changed America
  • 2021
    Mad Youth

    Mad Youth

    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.

    Mad Youth
  • 2008
    The Past is a Strange Country

    The Past is a Strange Country

    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...

    The Past is a Strange Country
  • 2015
    Larry Kramer In Love & Anger

    Larry Kramer In Love & Anger

    Larry Kramer In Love & Anger

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    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...

    Larry Kramer In Love & Anger
  • 2016
    Disturbing the Peace

    Disturbing the Peace

    Disturbing the Peace

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    Disturbing the Peace follows a group of former enemy combatants - Israeli soldiers from the most elite units, and Palestinian fighters, many of whom...

    Disturbing the Peace
  • 2020
    Tipping Point

    Tipping Point

    Tipping Point

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    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...

    Tipping Point
  • 2016
    The Third Man

    The Third Man

    The Third Man

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    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...

    The Third Man
  • 1968
    Before the Truth

    Before the Truth

    Before the Truth

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    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,...

    Before the Truth
  • 2020
    Not Done: Women Remaking America

    Not Done: Women Remaking America

    Not Done: Women Remaking America

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    "Not Done: Women Remaking America" chronicles the seismic eruption of women's organizing from the 2016 election through today, and the intersectional...

    Not Done: Women Remaking America
  • 2015
    Strangeways: Britain's Toughest Prison Riot

    Strangeways: Britain's Toughest Prison Riot

    Strangeways: Britain's Toughest Prison Riot

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    Twenty-five years after the biggest riot in British penal history, this film brings together the ringleaders of the trouble with the prison guards...

    Strangeways: Britain's Toughest Prison Riot
  • 2019
    What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?

    What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?

    What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?

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    Summer 2017, a string of brutal police killings of young African American men has sent shockwaves throughout the country. A Black community in the...

    What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?
  • 2022
    Tear It Down

    Tear It Down

    Tear It Down

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    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...

    Tear It Down