Protest Movies

American Experience looks at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago where Vice President Hubert Humphrey won his party's nomination for...

Behind the gas masks of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, the often very young activists are just as diverse as the youths of the rest of the...

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

Documentary about the CUGWU strike of 2022.

Standing Army, directed by Enrico Parenti and Thomas Fazi, is an award-winning documentary film about the global network of U.S. military bases, the...

Local elections are taking place in Georgia in 2025. The frontrunner is the pro-Russian Georgian Dream party, accused of rigging the previous...

"Not Done: Women Remaking America" chronicles the seismic eruption of women's organizing from the 2016 election through today, and the intersectional...

The film shows the images made by the police during demonstrations of 2013 (Brazil). In times of anonymous faces, what to do with the feet?

A young woman finds herself in a strange inescapable room as she seeks refuge when chaos erupts in the streets.

Yonatan, an ultra-Orthodox young man protesting against conscription into the IDF, offering his perspective on the yeshiva, the conscription, and...

In May 1968, workers, students and young people rise up against the morality and power of the establishment. Faculties and factories are under...

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...

On April 28, 1986, two students, twenty-year-old Kim Se-jin and Lee Jae-ho, immolated themselves to death, shouting slogans, “No war, no...

It became world news in October 2019 when economic reforms in Ecuador led to gas prices suddenly shooting up by 123 percent. People from urban and...

Seven activists from Hong Kong joint the global fight against the G8 Summit in Hokkaido Japan 2008. Given the fact that global warming, labor and...

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...

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,...

Grandpa Chan, 73 and Grandpa Wong, 82, run into the mist of teargas and try to protect the young protesters from any harm. With all the dangers and...

Two Serbian cinematography students set out to follow the longest relay in history, through protests, blockades, and a line of memories, tracing back...

They started their 1400 km journey to the capital of Europe on bicycles from Novi Sad, Serbia. This trip, from a divided country that has been in a...