Political Activism Movies

In 1981, seven Libyan exiles formed the core opposition group to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Thirty years later, they are back to their country only to...

Obsessively referring to the traumas and wounds that the Spanish civil war (1936-39) and Franco's dictatorship (1939-75) caused in their day no...

Welcome to a never-before-seen tour of the creations by resistance artists around the world. From the streets of Moscow to the shores of Los Angeles...

A drama focused on Norwegian society in the 1970s, an era politically influenced by Marxism and Leninism.

Documentary that follows events after the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, while looking back on the previous fifteen years, tracing his rise to power....

A moving portrait of Chilean singer-songwriter and political activist Victor Jara (1932-73) that chronicles the life of the talented artist who was...

A documentary on the six-decades long career of a muckraking journalist, who was involved with the radical 196os magazine Ramparts, with the Los...

INTO THE CIRCLE ( German: IM INNEREN KREIS) highlights the diverse psychological and political consequences of covert police operations. The...

An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her...

Laosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only...

In an insurrectionary climate, four twenty-year-old friends talk about politics. As a big protest looms, one of them, Clara, has to write a college...

Hear the inside story of Huey Newton and the Black Panthers with this documentary that examines their efforts to promote the rights of African...

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

In the Netherlands, 200,000 young people are concerned about the end of the world and the major climate disasters they may experience. They learn...

Rob Williams was an African-American living in Monroe, North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s. Living with injustice and oppression, many...

Bill O'Reilly, Jon Stewart, 2 podiums, 1 air-conditioned auditorium... In "O'Reilly vs. Stewart 2012: The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium,"...

A colorful and provocative survey of anarchism in America, the film attempts to dispel popular misconceptions and trace the historical development of...

Underground is a 1976 documentary film about the Weathermen, founded as a militant faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), who fought...

Following fateful scientific reports, protestors pose the argument for a better future against the vested interest of industry. Small to large,...

Beyond Barricades is a documentary on political punk band Anti-Flag, featuring interviews with Tom Morello, Billy Bragg, Tim McIlrath, Brian Baker &...