Political Activism Movies

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

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 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...

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

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...

This is Bill Hicks' LIVE final televised interview where he appeared on the Austin, Texas public access television show CapZeyeZ, hosted by Metal...

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

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...

In 1981, seven Libyan exiles formed the core opposition group to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Thirty years later, they are back to their country only to...

In the Netherlands, 200,000 young people are concerned about the end of the world and the major climate disasters they may experience. They learn...

Documentary that follows events after the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, while looking back on the previous fifteen years, tracing his rise to power....

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

One of Hicks's most famous quotes was delivered during a gig in Chicago - known s the "Infamous Bill Looses it in Chicago" show - in 1989 (later...

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

Portrait of Belgian historian, reporter and documentarian André Dartevelle.

The well-known activist couple Max and Lou made an extreme statement and had themselves sterilized under full media coverage: they do not want to...

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