Political Activist Movies

  • 2023
    Bobi Wine: The People's President

    Bobi Wine: The People's President

    Bobi Wine: The People's President

    6.82023HD

    Uganda has one the youngest populations in the world and one of its most flagrantly anti-democratic governments. These are ingredients for...

    Bobi Wine: The People's President
  • 2022
    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    7.42022HD

    The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography,...

    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  • 2013
    Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

    Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

    Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

    102013HD

    The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

    Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
  • 2000
    One Hundred Steps

    One Hundred Steps

    One Hundred Steps

    7.8062000HD

    Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps...

    One Hundred Steps
  • 1992
    Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

    Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

    Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

    7.61992HD

    A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.

    Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
  • 2005
    Trudell

    Trudell

    Trudell

    5.82005HD

    A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.

    Trudell
  • 1975
    Mahogany

    Mahogany

    Mahogany

    5.91975HD

    An aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her...

    Mahogany
  • 2018
    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

    62018HD

    Award-winning Irish actor Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of George Bernard Shaw, a giant of world literature, and - like Byrne -...

    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
  • 2018
    Seeing Allred

    Seeing Allred

    Seeing Allred

    6.92018HD

    Gloria Allred overcame trauma and personal setbacks to become one of the nation’s most famous women’s rights attorneys. Now the feminist...

    Seeing Allred
  • 1976
    Gloria Mundi

    Gloria Mundi

    Gloria Mundi

    4.81976HD

    An actress of political torture movies made by her husband has to finish his latest film and arrange a screening for distributors while the husband,...

    Gloria Mundi
  • 2011
    The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

    The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

    The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

    7.62011HD

    Examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in US society from 1967 to 1975. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists...

    The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
  • 2010
    Princess Kaiulani

    Princess Kaiulani

    Princess Kaiulani

    5.72010HD

    Ka'iulani, a 19th-century Hawaiian princess, is raised in England but determined to maintain her people's independence from aggressive American...

    Princess Kaiulani
  • 2008
    In Prison My Whole Life

    In Prison My Whole Life

    In Prison My Whole Life

    02008HD

    William Francome is a fairly typical, white middle-class guy. Typical except for the fact that he is about to embark on a journey into the dark heart...

    In Prison My Whole Life
  • 1968
    Apuntes sobre la tortura y otras formas de diálogo

    Apuntes sobre la tortura y otras formas de diálogo

    Apuntes sobre la tortura y otras formas de diálogo

    21968HD

    In a country subjected to a cruel dictatorship, a political activist is savagely tortured, unleashing the indignation of certain leftist...

    Apuntes sobre la tortura y otras formas de diálogo
  • 2012
    Marighella

    Marighella

    Marighella

    6.42012HD

    This communist and parliamentarian leader was arrested and tortured, and became famous for having written the "Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla"....

    Marighella
  • 2013
    John Denver: Country Boy

    John Denver: Country Boy

    John Denver: Country Boy

    8.22013HD

    This BBC documentary chronicles the life of folk/soft-rock singer John Denver through his rise with The Chad Mitchell Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary,...

    John Denver: Country Boy
  • 2019
    The Man Who Defied Beijing

    The Man Who Defied Beijing

    The Man Who Defied Beijing

    6.52019HD

    A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), a dissident, a woodpecker who tirelessly...

    The Man Who Defied Beijing
  • 2017
    Hong Kong: Retrocession Generation

    Hong Kong: Retrocession Generation

    Hong Kong: Retrocession Generation

    7.52017HD

    In 2017, twenty years after the British handed over Hong Kong to China in 1997, young people, more politicized than any previous generation and proud...

    Hong Kong: Retrocession Generation
  • 2012
    11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate

    11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate

    11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate

    5.22012HD

    On November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defence, leaving behind a legacy of...

    11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate
  • 2020
    Her Socialist Smile

    Her Socialist Smile

    Her Socialist Smile

    52020HD

    The memory of a particular moment in early 20th century history when, in 1913, Helen Keller (1880-1968), a deaf-blind writer, lecturer and political...

    Her Socialist Smile