Activism Movies

Hear the inside story of Huey Newton and the Black Panthers with this documentary that examines their efforts to promote the rights of African America...

An initiative discusses a videotape in which a group of activists portrays themselves and their work against the "nuclear power mafia." After argument...

The film questions whether the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s effectively changed the Black community, and American society more widely, and exami...

The film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights Movement...

A documentary about political activism, rebellion, squatting, and the do-it-yourself attitude among young people on the eve of the 70s. This is the st...

Coming from a country like India that is still in denial, where being HIV+ is still a curse, '68 Pages' rips open the underbelly of its society to rev...

A short documentary chronicling the coming-of-age story of generation z punctuated by numerous culturally significant moments, known as period effects...

In the Netherlands, 200,000 young people are concerned about the end of the world and the major climate disasters they may experience. They learn from...

An artistic hybrid documentary, ZERO IMPUNITY is the centerpiece of an ambitious global transmedia project. ZERO IMPUNITY sheds a powerful spotlight o...

After their mother's femicide, three siblings are separated and forced to live in different places. Years later they gather to raise their voices and...

Born in Ukraine in 2008 in the wake of the "Orange Revolution," the feminist movement Femen fights for democracy, freedom of the press, women's rights...

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 world. But...

Tamara is from the ocean and water runs in her veins. Born in a fishing village on the Mexican coast, she became a full-time scuba instructor. When sh...

Amidst the storm of Ferguson, 7 St. Louis college students evolve into advocates and activists as they demand change through policy and protest

When Rock, a young Chicago punk, shares a romantic spark with the free-spirited Ty at a local show, she contemplates a desperate, dangerous measure to...

The OCEAN is now on tour for the ninth time. This time we are accompanying, among others, 17-year-old Munich surfer Ben Neumann. He proves that it is...

Around a fire in the middle of the forest, two former members of the armed anti-capitalist group La Bande à Fasel meet three young activists from the...