Protest Movies

  • 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
  • 1959
    Yu Gwan-Sun

    Yu Gwan-Sun

    Yu Gwan-Sun

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    This film is about of the life of the young patriotic martyr Yu Gwan-sun, who fought for the liberation of her country during the Independence...

    Yu Gwan-Sun
  • 2014
    Folkbildningsterror

    Folkbildningsterror

    Folkbildningsterror

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    We follow the timid Theo, whose mother stands to lose her disability benefits. Help comes from the effortlessly flamboyant trans woman Kleopatra, a...

    Folkbildningsterror
  • 2025
    Better Dead Than Drafted

    Better Dead Than Drafted

    Better Dead Than Drafted

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

    Better Dead Than Drafted
  • 2026
    Speak Out

    Speak Out

    Speak Out

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    A family is interrupted from their regularly scheduled program causing a fierce debate over empathy and responsibility, ultimately ending in an...

    Speak Out
  • 2012
    Two Doors

    Two Doors

    Two Doors

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    The documentary Two Doors traces the Yongsan Tragedy of 2009, which took the lives of five evictees and one police SWAT unit member. Left with no...

    Two Doors
  • 2020
    Off Track

    Off Track

    Off Track

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    Two students plot an escape from the campus besieged by police of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in during the student-led anti-extradition...

    Off Track
  • 2016
    Disobedience

    Disobedience

    Disobedience

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    Disobedience tells the David vs. Goliath tale of front line leaders battling for a livable world. Filmed in the Philippines, Turkey, Germany, Canada,...

    Disobedience
  • 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
  • 1998
    No More Baths!

    No More Baths!

    No More Baths!

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    When greedy land developers attempt to push a kindly widower off of his property, they receive an unexpected challenge from his ten-year-old...

    No More Baths!
  • 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
  • 2008
    The Past is a Strange Country

    The Past is a Strange Country

    The Past is a Strange Country

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    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...

    The Past is a Strange Country
  • 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
  • 1985
    Les

    Les "Folles de la Place Vendôme"

    Les "Folles de la Place Vendôme"

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    A documentary released in 1985 about the Mothers of Place Vendôme.

    Les
  • 2024
    Next to Nothing

    Next to Nothing

    Next to Nothing

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    A group of farmers organizes a protest in front of the house of an MP who, contrary to earlier promises, voted against their interests. In the manure...

    Next to Nothing
  • 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
  • 1966
    Because My Bike Was There...

    Because My Bike Was There...

    Because My Bike Was There...

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    On 19 March 1966, a photo exhibition about the police intervention during the wedding of Beatrix and Claus opened in Amsterdam. After the opening,...

    Because My Bike Was There...
  • 2019
    Primavera Lacrimógena

    Primavera Lacrimógena

    Primavera Lacrimógena

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

    Primavera Lacrimógena
  • 2022
    How Many Horses Does One Man Need?

    How Many Horses Does One Man Need?

    How Many Horses Does One Man Need?

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    Documentary about the CUGWU strike of 2022.

    How Many Horses Does One Man Need?
  • 1970
    Invasion

    Invasion

    Invasion

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    A professor and his wife suffer humiliation at the hands of an invading college dissidents protest.

    Invasion