Protest Movies

  • 1970
    Primavera Lacrimógena

    Primavera Lacrimógena

    Primavera Lacrimógena

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    A poetic short film showing a day in the 2019 protests in Santiago, Chile through documentary images.

    Primavera Lacrimógena
  • 2020
    The Art of Protest

    The Art of Protest

    The Art of Protest

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    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...

    The Art of Protest
  • 2017
    Acorn and the Firestorm

    Acorn and the Firestorm

    Acorn and the Firestorm

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    For 40 years, the community-organizing group ACORN advocated for America’s poorest communities, while its detractors accused it of promoting...

    Acorn and the Firestorm
  • 2011
    Persecution Blues: the Battle for the Tote!

    Persecution Blues: the Battle for the Tote!

    Persecution Blues: the Battle for the Tote!

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    In 2010, the iconic Tote Hotel – last bastion of Melbourne’s vibrant music counterculture – was forced to close by unfair laws....

    Persecution Blues: the Battle for the Tote!
  • 2019
    We Are Mauna Kea

    We Are Mauna Kea

    We Are Mauna Kea

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    A depiction of the protests led by Native Hawaiians in an attempt to block the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the volcano of Mauna Kea...

    We Are Mauna Kea
  • 2018
    Simón

    Simón

    Simón

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

    Simón
  • 2021
    Absent Now the Dead

    Absent Now the Dead

    Absent Now the Dead

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    The ghost of a soldier from the Trojan War travels through the ruins of the ancient world to confront a council of tyrants who make war on reason. A...

    Absent Now the Dead
  • 2012
    Polluting Paradise

    Polluting Paradise

    Polluting Paradise

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    Villagers in Turkey's Black Sea village of Camburnu struggle with the government's decision to turn their community into a garbage dump.

    Polluting Paradise
  • 2020
    A Response to Your Message

    A Response to Your Message

    A Response to Your Message

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    A personal reflection on 2020's Black Lives Matter protests.

    A Response to Your Message
  • 1969
    Bed Peace

    Bed Peace

    Bed Peace

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    John and Yoko in the presidential suite at the Hilton Amsterdam, which they had decorated with hand-drawn signs above their bed reading "Bed Peace."...

    Bed Peace
  • 2017
    Dislocation Blues

    Dislocation Blues

    Dislocation Blues

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    Filmed during the 2016 Standing Rock protests in South Dakota, Sky Hopinka's Dislocation Blues offers a portrait of the movement and its water...

    Dislocation Blues
  • 1979
    For Twenty Cents A Day

    For Twenty Cents A Day

    For Twenty Cents A Day

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    A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film...

    For Twenty Cents A Day
  • 2019
    The Chef

    The Chef

    The Chef

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    In a time when work is done by robots, a traditional Chinese chef is forced to train a Caucasian humanoid to cook Chinese food, but a former...

    The Chef
  • 2020
    Off Track

    Off Track

    Off Track

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    Two students plot an escape from the campus besieged by police of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in during the student-led anti-extradition...

    Off Track
  • 2020
    Undercurrent

    Undercurrent

    Undercurrent

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    On a winter evening in 1979, the arrest of anti-government protesters is underway. The city is under curfew, but a teenage student, out of curiosity,...

    Undercurrent
  • 2016
    Disobedience

    Disobedience

    Disobedience

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    Disobedience tells the David vs. Goliath tale of front line leaders battling for a livable world. Filmed in the Philippines, Turkey, Germany, Canada,...

    Disobedience
  • 2018
    Kinshasa Makambo

    Kinshasa Makambo

    Kinshasa Makambo

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    Christian, Ben and Jean-Marie are fighting for political change of power and free elections in their country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo....

    Kinshasa Makambo
  • 2018
    The Undamaged

    The Undamaged

    The Undamaged

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    The Balkans cradles Europe's last wild rivers and supports abundant wildlife and healthy, intact ecosystems. These rivers are "The Undamaged" –...

    The Undamaged
  • 2022
    How Many Horses Does One Man Need?

    How Many Horses Does One Man Need?

    How Many Horses Does One Man Need?

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    Documentary about the CUGWU strike of 2022.

    How Many Horses Does One Man Need?
  • 2015
    Uprising!

    Uprising!

    Uprising!

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    "Levante" won Canal Futura's annual documentary competition in 2014 and was filmed in Brazil, Mexico, Japan, Gaza and Hong Kong. It first aired at...

    Uprising!