Political Activism Movies

San Sebastián de los Reyes Bullring, Madrid, Spain, March 27, 1977. In response to the strange political alliances that were taking place between anta...

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

Damascus, Oregon, United States. Julie Keith finds a baffling message hidden in a pack of decorative items, a desperate plea for help, written by some...

This program investigates the ways various art forms are used to sway minds and to argue political causes. Examples include Napoleon and Hitler; artis...

Underground is a 1976 documentary film about the Weathermen, founded as a militant faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS),who fought...

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

Estado de Excepção is a documentary about CITAC (Coimbra Theater Initiation Circle),a university theater group, revealing history since it was consti...

Michel Recanati was a militant leader in the May, 1968 riots in Paris, organizing many groups to meet, discuss, and act on leftist principles both bef...

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 shop,...

A young Venezuelan freedom fighter seeks asylum in the United States, but his heart remains in the fight back home.

Beyond Barricades is a documentary on political punk band Anti-Flag, featuring interviews with Tom Morello, Billy Bragg, Tim McIlrath, Brian Baker & M...

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

In a year of uprisings and political unrest, Stonebreakers documents the fights around monuments in the United States and explores the shifting landsc...

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

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

Portrait of Belgian historian, reporter and documentarian André Dartevelle.

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 Ladie...

Laosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only w...

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 Arme...