Protest Movies

  • 2014
    The Term. Beginning of a Big Story

    The Term. Beginning of a Big Story

    The Term. Beginning of a Big Story

    4.22014HD

    The documentary project The Term was conceived in May 2012. When the directing trio commenced mapping the Russian sociopolitical landscape, Vladimir...

    The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
  • 1976
    From Spikes to Spindles

    From Spikes to Spindles

    From Spikes to Spindles

    01976HD

    This raw, gutsy portrait of New York's Chinatown captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community. We see a Chinatown rarely...

    From Spikes to Spindles
  • 2008
    68

    68

    68

    4.92008HD

    From Washington to Saigon, Rome to Mexico, Paris to Prague, a wave of protests shook the world. 68 looks back at the looks back at the Vietnam War,...

    68
  • 1987
    Police State

    Police State

    Police State

    51987HD

    In Nick Zedd's mock docu-drama Police State, he puts his own body on the line to illustrate his belief that “freedom is an illusion.” A...

    Police State
  • 2015
    Strangeways: Britain's Toughest Prison Riot

    Strangeways: Britain's Toughest Prison Riot

    Strangeways: Britain's Toughest Prison Riot

    02015HD

    Twenty-five years after the biggest riot in British penal history, this film brings together the ringleaders of the trouble with the prison guards...

    Strangeways: Britain's Toughest Prison Riot
  • 2016
    Disturbing the Peace

    Disturbing the Peace

    Disturbing the Peace

    7.62016HD

    Disturbing the Peace follows a group of former enemy combatants - Israeli soldiers from the most elite units, and Palestinian fighters, many of whom...

    Disturbing the Peace
  • 2019
    What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?

    What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?

    What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?

    7.22019HD

    Summer 2017, a string of brutal police killings of young African American men has sent shockwaves throughout the country. A Black community in the...

    What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?
  • 1969
    The Confrontation

    The Confrontation

    The Confrontation

    6.21969HD

    In post-WWII Hungary, a group of Communist college students arrive at a Catholic seminary hoping to engage in peaceful debate with its students.

    The Confrontation
  • 1970
    Invasion

    Invasion

    Invasion

    01970HD

    A professor and his wife suffer humiliation at the hands of an invading college dissidents protest.

    Invasion
  • 2023
    River of Freedom

    River of Freedom

    River of Freedom

    92023HD

    When the New Zealand Government enforce mandatory vaccination on the workforce, many rebel. They convoy to Parliament in protest but are ignored by...

    River of Freedom
  • 2023
    The Revolt

    The Revolt

    The Revolt

    62023HD

    La Revuelta accounts for the tension experienced by those who, as of October 2019, came out to express their social discontent. The work has as its...

    The Revolt
  • 2022
    Tear It Down

    Tear It Down

    Tear It Down

    02022HD

    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...

    Tear It Down
  • 2010
    A Good Day to Die

    A Good Day to Die

    A Good Day to Die

    6.52010HD

    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...

    A Good Day to Die
  • 2015
    Larry Kramer In Love & Anger

    Larry Kramer In Love & Anger

    Larry Kramer In Love & Anger

    6.32015HD

    From the onset of the AIDS epidemic, author Larry Kramer emerged as a fiery activist, an Old Testament-style prophet full of righteous fury who...

    Larry Kramer In Love & Anger
  • 2011
    Black Block

    Black Block

    Black Block

    8.12011HD

    Genoa 2001: As the G8 Summit drew to a close and the press and politicians departed, 300 riot police stormed the Diaz School looking for members of...

    Black Block
  • 1971
    The Whole World is Watching

    The Whole World is Watching

    The Whole World is Watching

    01971HD

    This color educational film is about Anti-Vietnam Protestors in Washington D.C. during late April/Early May 1971. The 1971 May Day Protests were a...

    The Whole World is Watching
  • 2018
    Kinshasa Makambo

    Kinshasa Makambo

    Kinshasa Makambo

    5.32018HD

    Christian, Ben and Jean-Marie are fighting for political change of power and free elections in their country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo....

    Kinshasa Makambo
  • 2019
    Rebellion

    Rebellion

    Rebellion

    72019HD

    As the 'one country two systems' policy in Hong Kong has slowly eroded, resentment among the territory's citizens has steadily grown. What began as a...

    Rebellion
  • 1933
    The Merry Monarch

    The Merry Monarch

    The Merry Monarch

    61933HD

    Good King Pausole selects a wife for every day in the year, but one protests when he spends her day searching for young Princess Aline who has eloped...

    The Merry Monarch
  • 2018
    Man on Fire

    Man on Fire

    Man on Fire

    82018HD

    Grand Saline, Texas, was a sleepy, unremarkable town—until a white preacher lit himself on fire to protest the town's racism in 2014. The...

    Man on Fire