Democracy Movies

It’s the 2014 midterms and residents of a South Florida retirement community feel the weight of democracy on their shoulders. In one of the...

American citizens who are normally marginalized, forgotten and left to fend against toxic dumps and other violations, come to understand that the...

Thirty-seven diverse men and women confront the problem of saving their democracy from fascism.

'Project Censored: The Movie' explores media censorship in our society by exposing important stories that corporate media fails to report/under...

Scene is the classroom of a special school in Berlin. Yannik is the leader of class 7a. Yousuf and Marcel would rather have him as a friend than as...

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to...

The sharp wit and insightful art of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes to examine the challenges confronting US democracy ahead of the...

Made just before America would be forced into the Second World War, this short subject is a brief dramatized history of American democracy. It...

A documentary about a proposed military training area in Rothenthurm, Central Switzerland, and the village's resistance to those plans.

Amidst the traditional pomp and circumstance of Filipino elections, a quirky people’s movement rises to defend the nation against deepening...

Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of...

When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying...

Following a national crisis, the citizens of Iceland rallied together to collectively write the first ever crowdsourced constitution. A deeply...

The spring of 1950 was also the spring of the multi-party regime in Turkey. A new 10 years, a new regime, a new government. The first test of...

Masha Drokova is a rising star in Russia's popular nationalistic youth movement, Nashi. A smart, ambitious teenager who – literally –...

The 2022 midterms are crucial for the second half of Joe Biden's presidency. The documentary shows the state of the political system.

The story of President Monroe's response to attempts by Spain to interfere in South America.

As local newsrooms vanish, "News Without a Newsroom" explores journalism's uncertain future in the digital age. Through powerful stories and expert...