Protest Movies

An in-depth look at the early 2011 crisis for public sector unions in Wisconsin, and why it matters in Alberta.

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

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

University student Xiang meets police officer Vic on the basketball court. They quickly fall in love. Vic takes Xiang out of school and introduces...

The documentary project The Term was conceived in May 2012. When the directing trio commenced mapping the Russian sociopolitical landscape, Vladimir...

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,...

The leaders of Egypt's 2011 revolution discuss the fire, courage and resiliency behind their movement to remove President Hosni Mubarak from office.

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

Twenty-five years after the biggest riot in British penal history, this film brings together the ringleaders of the trouble with the prison guards...

Two activists and lovers meet a thrillseeking anarchist who wants to help them in their missions to improve the world. Unsure about the what and how,...

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...

Expanding industrial infrastructure on Chennai's coast threatens the fragile ecology of Ennore-Pulicat wetlands. These wetlands protect our city from...

Disturbing the Peace follows a group of former enemy combatants - Israeli soldiers from the most elite units, and Palestinian fighters, many of whom...

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...

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...

An Italian documentary about No Tav movement.

Over the course of a year, film follows Vancouver Pride Society president Ken Coolen to various international Pride events, including Poland,...

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

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...

To protest the construction of a new car lot, a young guy named Bernat comes to the vacant lot in order to tie himself to the only left living tree....