Protest Movies

In Nick Zedd's mock docu-drama Police State, he puts his own body on the line to illustrate his belief that “freedom is an illusion.” A...

Grand Saline, Texas, was a sleepy, unremarkable town—until a white preacher lit himself on fire to protest the town's racism in 2014. The...

A series of racist acts prompts three Mizzou students to pick up cameras and take us inside the student movement that brought down their college...

Award-winning director Yoav Shamir (Defamation, Checkpoint) sets out on an entertaining and insightful international quest, exploring the notion of...

A documentary that examines the 1968 student strike at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The film looks at how the school’s disciplining of...

A salute to women in history who have used their bodies in protest when they haven’t been permitted to use their voices, this film reflects...

Beneath the fury of Ferguson unrest, an affable professor dedicates his life to actionable, peaceful change while attempting the grueling triple...

Believing he was sacked unjustly from his job as an engineer in a big Japanese corporation, Tanaka Tetsuro has protested outside the company gate...

Resisterhood is a film about the power of women, hope and resistance in modern American politics. After the 2016 elections, we follows six diverse...

Swedish News Documentary. On September 30, the Nazi organization NMR was granted permission to demonstrate in Gothenburg. Restricted...

A contrast between two kinds of attitudes to gay liberation in Adelaide.

This color educational film is about Anti-Vietnam Protestors in Washington D.C. during late April/Early May 1971. The 1971 May Day Protests were a...

A close-up look at the New Yorkers who took to the streets during the 2024 Presidential Election.

'For What It's Worth' is an attempt to understand a movement. Two filmmakers went to Jantar Mantar after the violence on the 20th of July. They...

No Measure of Health profiles Kyle Magee, an anti-advertising activist from Melbourne, Australia, who for the past 10 years has been going out into...

Through intertwined images and testimonials from union activists, protest performers and ethologist John B. Calhoun's experiments observing the...

A Litany for Survival' explores the shades between love, rage, and rebellion as a black person surviving in America. Two months before the shocking...

In late October 2022, a developed city splited into two realities. Inside a sealed compound, children run, shout, and play as if the world is small...

A documentary exploring sexism and patriarchy in Kosova.