Political Activist Movies
- 2000
One Hundred Steps
One Hundred Steps7.82000HD
Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps...
- 2022
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed7.42022HD
The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography,...
- 2023
Bobi Wine: The People's President
Bobi Wine: The People's President6.82023HD
Uganda has one the youngest populations in the world and one of its most flagrantly anti-democratic governments. These are ingredients for...
- 2018
Seeing Allred
Seeing Allred6.92018HD
Gloria Allred overcame trauma and personal setbacks to become one of the nation’s most famous women’s rights attorneys. Now the feminist...
- 2012
11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate
11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate5.22012HD
On November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defence, leaving behind a legacy of...
- 1992
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media7.61992HD
A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
- 2013
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal102013HD
The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
- 2018
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw62018HD
Award-winning Irish actor Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of George Bernard Shaw, a giant of world literature, and - like Byrne -...
- 2011
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-19757.62011HD
Examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in US society from 1967 to 1975. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists...
- 2010
Princess Kaiulani
Princess Kaiulani5.72010HD
Ka'iulani, a 19th-century Hawaiian princess, is raised in England but determined to maintain her people's independence from aggressive American...
- 2005
Trudell
Trudell5.82005HD
A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.
- 1982
The Ambush Murders
The Ambush Murders91982HD
An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims...
- 2019
The Man Who Defied Beijing
The Man Who Defied Beijing6.52019HD
A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), a dissident, a woodpecker who tirelessly...
- 2013
John Denver: Country Boy
John Denver: Country Boy8.22013HD
This BBC documentary chronicles the life of folk/soft-rock singer John Denver through his rise with The Chad Mitchell Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary,...
- 2007
An Unreasonable Man
An Unreasonable Man7.72007HD
An Unreasonable Man is a 2006 documentary film that traces the life and career of political activist Ralph Nader, the founder of modern consumer...
- 2011
The Kingdom of Survival
The Kingdom of Survival02011HD
The Kingdom of Survival explores modern skepticism in America, challenges the status quo and uncovers provocative links between survivalist...
- 2008
In Prison My Whole Life
In Prison My Whole Life02008HD
William Francome is a fairly typical, white middle-class guy. Typical except for the fact that he is about to embark on a journey into the dark heart...
- 1975
Mahogany
Mahogany5.91975HD
An aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her...
- 1976
Gloria Mundi
Gloria Mundi4.81976HD
An actress of political torture movies made by her husband has to finish his latest film and arrange a screening for distributors while the husband,...
- 2012
Marighella
Marighella6.42012HD
This communist and parliamentarian leader was arrested and tortured, and became famous for having written the "Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla"....