Protest Movies

This film programme highlights queer struggles and the history of the Pride movement in Sweden, from 1981 until today. Features 8 short films: Gay...

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...

Lebanon today. The traces of the civil war are all too tangible as government corruption becomes unbearable. In a country where conflict and peace...

Mass student protests took place in Chile between 2011 and 2013 demanding a free and state-funded education system and radical change in society....

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

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

Milka is a state employee in the office for approval of the applications for registration of political parties. Her problem is how to make his...

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...

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

Something is cooking in the town of Grimsville, Ontario. A bunch of wayward youths take on Grimsville High, Squirrely's Pizza and the Moose Meat...

Yugoslavian filmmaker Goran Markovic directs the psychological drama The Cordon. Set in Belgrade over Easter weekend in 1997, the film involves a...

The Israeli filmmaker Shai Corneli Polak records the building of the 'security wall' through Palestinian territory at the village of Bil'in. The...

'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...

Chronicles April 2014 Ukrainian protests against Russian occupation intentions in Donetsk, Ukraine.

A student protest erupts in the Yale Bowl during the 2019 Harvard-Yale football game.

Equal parts film, conversation, and social experiment, this interactive documentary uses footage shot by activists in the crowd of the Maribor...

A huge new global protest movement is changing public attitudes to climate change. Reporter Ben Zand gains access to the most high-profile activist...

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

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

"They Called Us Rebels: The 1968 Edcouch-Elsa Walkout is the story of Mexican-American students organizing a seminal demonstration of resistance...