Protest Movies

A young woman in Stalin's Russia faces a life-or-death choice after carrying out a daring act of protest.

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

Good King Pausole selects a wife for every day in the year, but one protests when he spends her day searching for young Princess Aline who has eloped...

As one of Belgrade’s last DIY anti-nationalist spaces faces closure, its community gathers for a final night — a farewell that becomes a...

A documentary that chronicles the life of South African leader Nelson Mandela. Mandela is probably best known for his 27 years of imprisonment, and...

In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody. She had been arrested by Iran’s religious police, accused...

This short documentary serves as a portrait of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, one of Canada's most important painters. We meet him at the Bisley Rifle...

Black Snake Killaz is a feature-length documentary film about the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. This film explores actions taken by water...

British artist, academic, musician and activist Bob and Roberta Smith has been waging slightly odd political protests for years, in this documentary...

In post-WWII Hungary, a group of Communist college students arrive at a Catholic seminary hoping to engage in peaceful debate with its students.

Hye-jeong, who lost her husband in an industrial accident, moves into a sparky new town apartment 'Dream Palace'. But things go awry, construction...

Why does the Mexican government consider the feminist movement a bigger threat than most drug cartels? The short documentary 'SANGRE VIOLENTA /...

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

University student Xiang and police officer Vic's romance is tested when political protests place them on opposing sides, challenging their love and...

Filmed in New York in the summer of 2006: a march across the Brooklyn Bridge in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese populations. Habibi means...

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

On Wednesday, July 17th 2019, a heavily armed police force arrested 36 Native Hawaiian kūpuna peacefully protecting Maunakea from desecration....

Possibly one of the first gay videos in the history of video making in Quebec, if not all of Canada, this work invites us to a delirium organized...

A body lurchs through the university.

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