Protest Movies

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...

Beneath the fury of Ferguson unrest, an affable professor dedicates his life to actionable, peaceful change while attempting the grueling triple...

The film shows the images made by the police during demonstrations of 2013 (Brazil). In times of anonymous faces, what to do with the feet?

'For What It's Worth' is an attempt to understand a movement. Two filmmakers went to Jantar Mantar after the violence on the 20th of July. They...

A huge new global protest movement is changing public attitudes to climate change. Reporter Ben Zand gains access to the most high-profile activist...

On 6th March 2011, 113 protesters in Hong Kong were arrested for "Unlawful Assembly" after they stormed the traffic lanes of Central during a...

In May 1968, workers, students and young people rise up against the morality and power of the establishment. Faculties and factories are under...

Chronicles April 2014 Ukrainian protests against Russian occupation intentions in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Grand Saline, Texas, was a sleepy, unremarkable town—until a white preacher lit himself on fire to protest the town's racism in 2014. The...

The extraordinary story of the Melbourne community campaign that put a stop to the $18billion East Wast toll road link.

No Measure of Health profiles Kyle Magee, an anti-advertising activist from Melbourne, Australia, who for the past 10 years has been going out into...

"They Called Us Rebels: The 1968 Edcouch-Elsa Walkout is the story of Mexican-American students organizing a seminal demonstration of resistance...

This color educational film is about Anti-Vietnam Protestors in Washington D.C. during late April/Early May 1971. The 1971 May Day Protests were a...

A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film...

Through intertwined images and testimonials from union activists, protest performers and ethologist John B. Calhoun's experiments observing the...

A contrast between two kinds of attitudes to gay liberation in Adelaide.

A couple from Quebec decides to move to Chile, joining the workers’ struggle under the Allende administration. This short film explores how...

This should not be presumptuous, but we are deeply touched by the dramatic and catastrophic situation in Ukraine. The analogy between swarms of birds...

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