Movies: Protest

  • 2021
    Revolution of Our Times

    Revolution of Our Times (2021)

    Revolution of Our Times

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    Throughout Hong Kong’s history, Hongkongers have fought for freedom and democracy but have yet to succeed. In 2019, a controversial extradition bill was introduced that would allow Hongkongers to be tried in mainland China. This decision spurred mass...

    Revolution of Our Times
  • 2022
    The Killing of a Journalist

    The Killing of a Journalist (2022)

    The Killing of a Journalist

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    A young investigative journalist and his fiancée are brutally murdered in their home in Slovakia. Their deaths inspire the biggest protests in Slovakia since the fall of communism. The story takes an unexpected turn when a source leaks the secret mur...

    The Killing of a Journalist
  • 2014
    The Term. Beginning of a Big Story

    The Term. Beginning of a Big Story (2014)

    The Term. Beginning of a Big Story

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    The documentary project The Term was conceived in May 2012. When the directing trio commenced mapping the Russian sociopolitical landscape, Vladimir Putin had just settled into the Kremlin for his third term. The original experimental format of “docu...

    The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
  • 1995
    Chicago 1968

    Chicago 1968 (1995)

    Chicago 1968

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    American Experience looks at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago where Vice President Hubert Humphrey won his party's nomination for president amid massive civil unrest and violence perpetrated by Chicago Police and anti-Vietnam War pr...

    Chicago 1968
  • 2005
    Grilled Cheese Sandwich

    Grilled Cheese Sandwich (2005)

    Grilled Cheese Sandwich

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    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 Ladies with their revolutionary underground grilled cheese sandwich club....

    Grilled Cheese Sandwich
  • 1985
    Which Side Are You On?

    Which Side Are You On? (1985)

    Which Side Are You On?

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    The documentary features the British miners and their family experiences told through songs, poems, pictures and words....

    Which Side Are You On?
  • 2008
    Black Power Salute

    Black Power Salute (2008)

    Black Power Salute

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    A film about one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, the moment when the radical spirit of the 1960s upstaged the greatest sporting event in the world. Two men made a courageous gesture that reverberated around the world, and changed their...

    Black Power Salute
  • 2020
    Undercurrent

    Undercurrent (2020)

    Undercurrent

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    On a winter evening in 1979, the arrest of anti-government protesters is underway. The city is under curfew, but a teenage student, out of curiosity, follows a mysterious young man from a riverside path into an abandoned hut. Living in Taiwan under m...

    Undercurrent
  • 2018
    Simón

    Simón (2018)

    Simón

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

    Simón
  • 2018
    The Undamaged

    The Undamaged (2018)

    The Undamaged

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    The Balkans cradles Europe's last wild rivers and supports abundant wildlife and healthy, intact ecosystems. These rivers are "The Undamaged" – clean, pristine, and undammed. With over 2,700 small and large hydro power plants planned or under constru...

    The Undamaged
  • 1970
    Invasion

    Invasion (1970)

    Invasion

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

    Invasion
  • 2023
    Inside the Iranian Uprising

    Inside the Iranian Uprising (2023)

    Inside the Iranian Uprising

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    In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody. She had been arrested by Iran’s religious police, accused of not wearing her hijab properly. The authorities said she had died of a heart attack, but rumors spread t...

    Inside the Iranian Uprising
  • 2000
    This Is What Democracy Looks Like

    This Is What Democracy Looks Like (2000)

    This Is What Democracy Looks Like

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    This film, shot by 100 amateur camera operators, tells the story of the enormous street protests in Seattle, Washington in November 1999, against the World Trade Organization summit being held there. Vowing to oppose, among other faults, the WTO's po...

    This Is What Democracy Looks Like
  • 1968
    Before the Truth

    Before the Truth (1968)

    Before the Truth

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    Two men, who have been fighting on the enemy sides in WWII, meet in the jazz club twenty years after. Mladen, who was a partisan at the time, recognizes a familiar face of a man whom he was supposed to shoot, but missed on purpose....

    Before the Truth
  • 2015
    Larry Kramer In Love & Anger

    Larry Kramer In Love & Anger (2015)

    Larry Kramer In Love & Anger

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    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 denounced both the willful inaction of the government and the refusal of the gay community to curb potenti...

    Larry Kramer In Love & Anger
  • 2017
    The Lost

    The Lost (2017)

    The Lost

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    A nighttime protest downtown has escalated to require police backup for crowd control. As cop partners and a hobbyist photographer arrive late to the scene, an altercation takes place -- but what occurred depends on whose perspective you see....

    The Lost
  • 2015
    India's Daughter

    India's Daughter (2015)

    India's Daughter

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    The story of the short life, and brutal gang rape and murder in Delhi in December 2012 of an exceptional and inspiring young woman. The rape of the 23 year old medical student by 6 men on a moving bus, and her death, sparked unprecedented protests an...

    India's Daughter
  • 2010
    Standing Army

    Standing Army (2010)

    Standing Army

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    Standing Army, directed by Enrico Parenti and Thomas Fazi, is an award-winning documentary film about the global network of U.S. military bases, the impact that these have on local populations, and the military-industrial complex that lies behind it....

    Standing Army
  • 2010
    Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride

    Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride (2010)

    Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride

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    Over the course of a year, film follows Vancouver Pride Society president Ken Coolen to various international Pride events, including Poland, Hungary, Russia, Sri Lanka and others where there is great opposition to pride parades. In North America, Pr...

    Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride
  • 2021
    Absent Now the Dead

    Absent Now the Dead (2021)

    Absent Now the Dead

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    The ghost of a soldier from the Trojan War travels through the ruins of the ancient world to confront a council of tyrants who make war on reason. A film dramatizing the ancient relevance of protest over power. Available Now on: watch.eventive.org...

    Absent Now the Dead