Protest Movies

  • 1970
    DON'T FORGET TO SLEEP

    DON'T FORGET TO SLEEP

    DON'T FORGET TO SLEEP

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

    DON'T FORGET TO SLEEP
  • 2009
    Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War

    Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War

    Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War

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    In the winter of 2002-'03, as the US was building its case to attack Iraq, people around the world responded with a series fo the largest peace...

    Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War
  • 2020
    Not Done: Women Remaking America

    Not Done: Women Remaking America

    Not Done: Women Remaking America

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

    Not Done: Women Remaking America
  • 2021
    When a City Rises

    When a City Rises

    When a City Rises

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    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...

    When a City Rises
  • 1995
    Chicago 1968

    Chicago 1968

    Chicago 1968

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

    Chicago 1968
  • 1987
    Police State

    Police State

    Police State

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    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...

    Police State
  • 1976
    From Spikes to Spindles

    From Spikes to Spindles

    From Spikes to Spindles

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    This raw, gutsy portrait of New York's Chinatown captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community. We see a Chinatown rarely...

    From Spikes to Spindles
  • 2010
    Standing Army

    Standing Army

    Standing Army

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    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...

    Standing Army
  • 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!
  • 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
  • 2019
    Below Baldwin: How an Expansion Project Unearthed a University's Legacy of Slavery

    Below Baldwin: How an Expansion Project Unearthed a University's Legacy of Slavery

    Below Baldwin: How an Expansion Project Unearthed a University's Legacy of Slavery

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    On November 17, 2015, construction on Baldwin Hall on the University of Georgia campus came to a halt when workers uncovered human remains on the...

    Below Baldwin: How an Expansion Project Unearthed a University's Legacy of Slavery
  • 2008
    Ashes from the Sun

    Ashes from the Sun

    Ashes from the Sun

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    Environmental drama set in Asturias, Spain. A Scottish travel writer is forced to stay in a valley town in northern Spain when his camper van breaks...

    Ashes from the Sun
  • 2024
    The Stand

    The Stand

    The Stand

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    On a misty morning in the fall of 1985, a small group of Haida people blockaded a muddy dirt road on Lyell Island, demanding the government work with...

    The Stand
  • 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
  • 2018
    Repeal! Procession

    Repeal! Procession

    Repeal! Procession

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    A procession from Artists' Campaign to repeal the 8th Amendment of the Republic of Ireland.

    Repeal! Procession
  • 1970
    Dairy King

    Dairy King

    Dairy King

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    Lactose intolerant man protests an ice cream shop.

    Dairy King
  • 1977
    Wildcat

    Wildcat

    Wildcat

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    During the 1975 wildcat strike in Appalachia, tens of thousands of coal miners walk off the job to defend their right to strike, as cameras capture...

    Wildcat
  • 2023
    Twenty

    Twenty

    Twenty

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    Set in a speakeasy in Atlanta, “Twenty” is a feature documentary about fifteen young people making it through 2020. The film is an...

    Twenty
  • 2024
    A Long Way From Heaven: The Rainbow Y Story

    A Long Way From Heaven: The Rainbow Y Story

    A Long Way From Heaven: The Rainbow Y Story

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    The true story of the students of Brigham Young University's queer underground, as they lit the school's iconic "Y" in rainbow colors. But, A Long...

    A Long Way From Heaven: The Rainbow Y Story
  • 2006
    Bil'in My Love

    Bil'in My Love

    Bil'in My Love

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

    Bil'in My Love