Political Activism Movies

On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a...

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

The firebrand reporter, feminist and philanthropist Dorothy Day co-founds The Catholic Worker with Peter Maurin, an eccentric philosopher.

John Cassellis is the toughest TV news reporter around. After extensively reporting about violence and racial tensions in poor communities, he...

Frustrated by the liberal left and what he deems the destruction of the country he risked his life for, reclusive veteran Quint North (Schneider) is...

A serious crisis has shaken Spain since the referendum on self-determination and the proclamation of the independence of Catalonia by the government...

How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a...

A student is held up in the library while a riot rages outside. As SDS protesters head to burn the library down, he has to fend them off with his...

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

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...

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...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant...

The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it? Or is the act of being part in democracy...

The best kept secret of The Andes will be revealed… For some, he is the thinker that set in motion a spiritual and political movement that...

Explore the tumultuous life of Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., a Jamaican political activist and advocate for Black Nationalism. From founding UNIA-ACL and...

A documentary on the six-decades long career of a muckraking journalist, who was involved with the radical 196os magazine Ramparts, with the Los...

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

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...

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...

An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her...