Movies: Political unrest

Born June 8, 1964, Frank Matter films four "twins", born the same day as him, but in other latitudes. Interweaving their life stories with rich archival material, the filmmaker links these Parallel Lives with elements from his own biography, to comp...

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The Colegio de Arquitectos de Catalunya commissioned Pere Portabella to make this film for the Joan Miró retrospective exhibit in 1969. There were heated discussions on whether it would be prudent to screen the film during the exhibit. Portabella too...

A documentary filmed from dusk to dawn during the 2020 George Floyd protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota....

In Capetown, South Africa, in September 1966, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, was stabbed to death in Parliament. The course of South African history was changed by the assassin, Dimitri Tsafendas, who was written off as ...

A student of French, disillusioned with reality, goes to the beach in search of meaning....

A protestor is kidnapped by the police and asked to use is influence to sway the protests in the governments way....