Movies: Political activism
- 2017
Heather Booth: Changing the World (2017)
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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...
- 2022
Klimaatrebellen: tussen hoop en wanhoop (2022)
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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,...
- 1988
Art With a Message: Protest, Propaganda, Satire and Social Comment (1988)
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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...
- 2016
Une vie contre l'oubli (2016)
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Portrait of Belgian historian, reporter and documentarian André Dartevelle....
- 2001
The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein (2001)
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A cri de coeur against Iraq War I from writer-director John Gianvito (Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind)....
- 2010
Bastards of Utopia (2010)
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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...
- 2011
Drive-By Truckers: The Secret to a Happy Ending (2011)
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Documentary covers three tumultuous years in the career of the Southern rock group Drive-By Truckers....
- 1975
The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak (1975)
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Documentary about the Lyon sex workers who occupied the church of St. Nizier on June 3, 1975....
- 2022
Greenfingers (2022)
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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?...
- 2024
Litter Pickin' Punks (2024)
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Feeling disgruntled, a group of punks start a litter picking group to counter the amount of litter their community faces....
- 1969
Chronique d'une crise (1969)
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- 2008
Jeunes, Militants et Sarkozystes (2008)
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- 2022
Brasil, Vermelho-Amarelo (2022)
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- 2022
Total Disaster (2022)
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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 “...
- 2021
Danube (2021)
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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....
- 2021
Antonio García-Trevijano: Transición e historia política de España en primera persona (2021)
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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....
- 2023
If We Burn (2023)
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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...
- 1992
Bad Religion: Along the Way (1992)
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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 ...
- 1994
Bill Hicks: Igby's, LA (1994)
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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....
- 2021
How the Monuments Came Down (2021)
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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...