Political Activism Movies

A month after the Wall Street occupation, a number of protesters follow their example and set up their tents in front of the Ljubljana stock market....

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

Students seeking greater control over the hiring of faculty occupy the offices of the Political Science Department at McGill University. The film...

A poetic short film showing a day in the 2019 protests in Santiago, Chile through documentary images.

"Puss Riot and other sins" - The Putin system is taking on more and more features of the Soviet system. The big fear and paranoia returns.

Pussy Riot make a comeback after a long absence to stand with Ukraine. Their story and their struggle are told through archival footage and...

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

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

The Yes Men impersonate the National Rifle Association and launche their "buy a gun, give a gun program" at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library....

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

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

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...

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...

Hundreds of thousands − perhaps even millions − of protestors have taken to the streets of Hong Kong since early June. Sparked initially...

In the original concept of the film as a computer game, the author presents a personal reportage from Budapest, where she spent a year as a student....

James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling...

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...

Spanish jurist and republican thinker Antonio García-Trevijano (1927-2018) expounds his political thought and reflects on the recent political...

An historical documentary that rereads the recent death of Jorge Videla, bloodthirsty dictator of Argentina in the 70’s, telling the...