Movies: Political activism

  • 2017
    Heather Booth: Changing the World

    Heather Booth: Changing the World (2017)

    Heather Booth: Changing the World

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    Heather Booth is the most influential person you have heard of. The newest film by critically acclaimed filmmaker Lilly Rivlin, HEATHER BOOTH: CHANGING THE WORLD is an urgent response to the recent election of Trump and all that has ensued. At a time...

    Heather Booth: Changing the World
  • 2022
    Klimaatrebellen: tussen hoop en wanhoop

    Klimaatrebellen: tussen hoop en wanhoop (2022)

    Klimaatrebellen: tussen hoop en wanhoop

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    A growing group of Dutch people in their twenties see the earth becoming less livable. They join the climate group Extinction Rebellion and campaign to fight the climate crisis. There is little they shy away from in their struggle: nightly campaigns,...

    Klimaatrebellen: tussen hoop en wanhoop
  • 1988
    Art With a Message: Protest, Propaganda, Satire and Social Comment

    Art With a Message: Protest, Propaganda, Satire and Social Comment (1988)

    Art With a Message: Protest, Propaganda, Satire and Social Comment

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    This program investigates the ways various art forms are used to sway minds and to argue political causes. Examples include Napoleon and Hitler; artist such as Daumier, Hogarth and Shann; writers Dickens, Swift and Orwell; and pop artists who mock po...

    Art With a Message: Protest, Propaganda, Satire and Social Comment
  • 2016
    Une vie contre l'oubli

    Une vie contre l'oubli (2016)

    Une vie contre l'oubli

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    Portrait of Belgian historian, reporter and documentarian André Dartevelle....

    Une vie contre l'oubli
  • 2001
    The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein

    The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein (2001)

    The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein

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    A cri de coeur against Iraq War I from writer-director John Gianvito (Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind)....

    The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein
  • 2010
    Bastards of Utopia

    Bastards of Utopia (2010)

    Bastards of Utopia

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    Three Croatian activists struggle to change the world. As children, they lived through the violent collapse of Yugoslavia. But now, amid the aftershocks of socialism's failure, they fight in their own way for a new leftism. In the middle of the strug...

    Bastards of Utopia
  • 2011
    Drive-By Truckers: The Secret to a Happy Ending

    Drive-By Truckers: The Secret to a Happy Ending (2011)

    Drive-By Truckers: The Secret to a Happy Ending

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    Documentary covers three tumultuous years in the career of the Southern rock group Drive-By Truckers....

    Drive-By Truckers: The Secret to a Happy Ending
  • 1975
    The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak

    The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak (1975)

    The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak

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    Documentary about the Lyon sex workers who occupied the church of St. Nizier on June 3, 1975....

    The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak
  • 2022
    Greenfingers

    Greenfingers (2022)

    Greenfingers

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    Following fateful scientific reports, protestors pose the argument for a better future against the vested interest of industry. Small to large, individual to collective, where do I fit into this?...

    Greenfingers
  • 2024
    Litter Pickin' Punks

    Litter Pickin' Punks (2024)

    Litter Pickin' Punks

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    Feeling disgruntled, a group of punks start a litter picking group to counter the amount of litter their community faces....

    Litter Pickin' Punks
  • 1969
    Chronique d'une crise

    Chronique d'une crise (1969)

    Chronique d'une crise

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    Chronique d'une crise
  • 2008
    Jeunes, Militants et Sarkozystes

    Jeunes, Militants et Sarkozystes (2008)

    Jeunes, Militants et Sarkozystes

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    Jeunes, Militants et Sarkozystes
  • 2022
    Brasil, Vermelho-Amarelo

    Brasil, Vermelho-Amarelo (2022)

    Brasil, Vermelho-Amarelo

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    Brasil, Vermelho-Amarelo
  • 2022
    Total Disaster

    Total Disaster (2022)

    Total Disaster

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    Armed with realistic bird puppets, trickster environmental activists pretend to be oil company Total—staging a satirical press conference to introduce “RéHabitat,” a program to rescue animals from the East African Oil Pipeline by relocating them to “...

    Total Disaster
  • 2021
    Danube

    Danube (2021)

    Danube

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    Argentina, 1968. In the midst of the Cold War, the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía (1966-70) organizes the 9th Mar del Plata Film Festival in order to show the world its friendly face, while exercising censorship and repressing dissidence....

    Danube
  • 2021
    Antonio García-Trevijano: Transición e historia política de España en primera persona

    Antonio García-Trevijano: Transición e historia política de España en primera persona (2021)

    Antonio García-Trevijano: Transición e historia política de España en primera persona

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    Spanish jurist and republican thinker Antonio García-Trevijano (1927-2018) expounds his political thought and reflects on the recent political history of Spain....

    Antonio García-Trevijano: Transición e historia política de España en primera persona
  • 2023
    If We Burn

    If We Burn (2023)

    If We Burn

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    Hundreds of thousands − perhaps even millions − of protestors have taken to the streets of Hong Kong since early June. Sparked initially by the government's plans for a controversial extradition bill, the movement has now transformed into a broader p...

    If We Burn
  • 1992
    Bad Religion: Along the Way

    Bad Religion: Along the Way (1992)

    Bad Religion: Along the Way

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    Considered one of the most cerebral punk rock bands around, Bad Religion puts on a unique live show that has them blasting through song after song in record time. This documentary, compiling footage from 14 different concerts, captures the raw power ...

    Bad Religion: Along the Way
  • 1994
    Bill Hicks: Igby's, LA

    Bill Hicks: Igby's, LA (1994)

    Bill Hicks: Igby's, LA

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    A bootleg of Bill's SECOND-to-last live performance at Igby's Comedy Club in LA on January 5, 1994....

    Bill Hicks: Igby's, LA
  • 2021
    How the Monuments Came Down

    How the Monuments Came Down (2021)

    How the Monuments Came Down

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    How the Monuments Came Down is a timely and searing look at the history of white supremacy and Black resistance in Richmond. The feature-length film-brought to life by history-makers, descendants, scholars, and activists-reveals how monuments to Conf...

    How the Monuments Came Down