Political Activism Movies

When two people meet one night in London, their relationship blossoms and fractures, intertwined with impending societal collapse.

A documentary about militant student political activity at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s.

Steal This Film focuses on Pirate Bay founders Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde, prominent members of the Swedish filesharing...

The Grammy-winning lead singer of System of a Down, Serj Tankian helps to awaken a political revolution on the other side of the world, inspiring...

Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the words we use to describe it. Through research,...

Poverty, Inc. explores the hidden side of doing good. From disaster relief to TOMs Shoes, from adoptions to agricultural subsidies, Poverty, Inc....

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

South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country...

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...

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...

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 serious crisis has shaken Spain since the referendum on self-determination and the proclamation of the independence of Catalonia by the government...

Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader who looks back at his early life and the rise of...

Michel Recanati was a militant leader in the May, 1968 riots in Paris, organizing many groups to meet, discuss, and act on leftist principles both...

Pussy Riot make a comeback after a long absence to stand with Ukraine. Their story and their struggle are told through archival footage and...

THE STORY WON’T DIE, from Award-winning filmmaker David Henry Gerson, is an inspiring, timely look at a young generation of Syrian artists who...

Winner of the DOC NYC Audience Award, Director Nick Canfield’s first film follows gospel-rock icon and activist Reverend Vince Anderson. After...

Montreal, spring 1966. Jean Corbo, 16 years old, born to a Quebec mother and an Italian father, is torn between his two affiliations. After...