Political Activism Movies

Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.

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...

A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War I, but gets caught in...

This documentary provides an in-depth examination of protest activities surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It documents draft...

A documentary on climate activism on 6 continents

The Grammy-winning lead singer of System of a Down, Serj Tankian helps to awaken a political revolution on the other side of the world, inspiring...

Portrait of Belgian historian, reporter and documentarian André Dartevelle.

THE STORY WON’T DIE, from Award-winning filmmaker David Henry Gerson, is an inspiring, timely look at a young generation of Syrian artists who...

A nun who acts as a counselor in a home for unwed mother undergoes political awakening when her friend and namesake belonging to the same...

Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter, he enlisted, like millions of colonial...

This is the first referendum held in Hong Kong and probably the last. Some people want to grasp the chance to directly participate in the democratic...

A bootleg of Bill's SECOND-to-last live performance at Igby's Comedy Club in LA on January 5, 1994.

Dancing in Dulias was made by members of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) and Lesbians Against Pit Closures during and immediate after the...

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...

Heather Booth is the most influential person you have heard of. The newest film by critically acclaimed filmmaker Lilly Rivlin, HEATHER BOOTH:...

The ruthless dictator Teodoro Obiang has ruled Equatorial Guinea with an iron hand since 1979. Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel is the most...

The film charts the origins of the Umbrella Movement through the eyes of the activists and ordinary people who made it happen. From the June 4th...