Activism Movies

Mixing archival footage with interviews, this film celebrates one of Los Angeles's most influential painters and Chicano art activists from the 1970s.

"Jeunesse Rouge" is a documentary exploring young French Communist revolutionaries fighting for a just and equal society. The film follows their...

A very personal and dynamic meditation on the current global refugee crisis through the eyes and voices of campaigners, specially children, where...

Dina works as a journalist for the national television station. The stories she is asked to report on are becoming increasingly absurd and full of...

“El Apagón: Aquí Vive Gente” is a documentary directed by Bad Bunny and Blanca Graulau. This 23-minute film explores the...

A feature-length documentary that explores the lives of four remarkably different people who share a common thread - they're all vegan. The movie...

COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s....

A group of anarchists use their public-access TV show to satirize the government until a right-wing preacher attempts to shut them down.

Co-founder of Greenpeace and founder of Sea Shepherd, Captain Watson is part pirate, part philosopher in this provocative documentary about a man who...

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

Environmental activists Thor, Hulk, Black Panther, Captain Anarchy and Batman illegally occupy Mormont Hill. They create a utopian model of society...

Emmett Till was brutally killed in the summer of 1955. At his funeral, his mother forced the world to reckon with the brutality of American racism. ...

This documentary speaks to local activist groups in the music industry and culture scene to find out why people are driven to fight back and speak...

Documentary film about the controversial movement of women seeking ordination in the Roman Catholic Church. More and more women are answering a...

When the killer of an adolescent labor activist is acquitted, journalist Shahbaz Bhatti sees glaring loopholes in the verdict, and begins a quest for...

She Draws a Circle reflects on the work of generations of women to interrupt cycles of violence and oppression, looking to the ways in which our...