Movies: Revolution

The film is about aftermaths and reckonings. Revisiting material for his earlier 4-part series, Karlin returns to Nicaragua to examine the history of the Sandinista government, consider its achievements, and assess the prospects for democracy followi...

Over the course of a controversial 10-year revolution in Nepal, 40% of the guerilla army fighting against the government were women. "Woman Rebel" follows the story of one such woman (codename "Silu") on her incredible journey — from the jungles, all...

Following the Revolution of April 25, 1974, the walls of the city of Lisbon became a means of celebrating and transmitting revolutionary ideals and slogans. The text by painter António Domingues praises this plastic work initiated by the Plastic Arti...

Lesson in History was produced when Peters was a student at the West Surrey School of Art and Design. Having read The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton, she was inspired to make what she describes as 'the stories of black achievement and how stor...

In the summer of 2011, Nadir Bouhmouch, a Moroccan student studying abroad in California returns to his home country and finds it in a state of turmoil. The uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt had spread to Morocco. Organized by a group of students called...

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After the elections that followed the Tunisian revolution, as well as the violence that shook the country, an author seeks to make a film on women's issue in his motherland. He makes his questioning the subject of his film and starts a journey....

Soldiers representing South Africa and New Zealand billeted in London get stuck in during a rugby fixture in Richmond Park....

One day, then another, a worker in an automated factory does his job and forgets his past. The factory fails. Accuses. He runs away. One day, but then another, the man sees through his memory to a disconcerting reality....

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This documentary offers a women’s picture of the Egyptian revolution. We are in Egypt, between Cairo and Ismailia, two revolutionary cities. Four women taking part in the revolution tell us their experiences. The film empathize the role of the women ...

From the exile of King Farouk in 1952 to the departure of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, this three-part documentary revisits Egypt's contemporary history, focusing on four recurring pillars: the army, civil society, the Muslim Brotherhood and the country's ...