Movies: Political activism
- 1971
Bananas (1971)
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When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion....
- 2020
Escape from Pretoria (2020)
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South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison....
- 2020
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
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What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history....
- 2022
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)
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The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisi...
- 1998
Snake Eyes (1998)
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All bets are off when shady homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. It's up to him and lifelong friend, Naval intelligence agent Kevin Dunne to uncover the conspiracy behind the killing. At every turn, Santoro makes increa...
- 2005
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
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The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s....
- 2003
The Best of Youth (2003)
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After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lives of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family take different directions, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades....
- 2003
The Corporation (2003)
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Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological exam...
- 2001
Nayak: The Real Hero (2001)
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Shivajirao, a TV reporter, gets a chance to be the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for a day after being challenged by incumbent Chief Minister Balraj Chauhan. After his one-day stint turns out to be a huge success, his life spirals out of control and ...
- 1974
Conversation Piece (1974)
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A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper ...
- 2016
American Pastoral (2016)
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Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family....
- 2003
The Yes Men (2003)
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A comic, biting and revelatory documentary following a small group of prankster activists as they gain worldwide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization (WTO) on television and at business conferences around the world....
- 2022
A Night of Knowing Nothing (2022)
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L, a student in India witness to the government's violent response to university protests, writes letters to her estranged lover while he is away....
- 2006
Salvador (Puig Antich) (2006)
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The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974....
- 2019
Hail Satan? (2019)
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The story of The Satanic Temple, a controversial movement that combines religion and activism with the apparent purpose of questioning the basic foundations of US society....
- 2022
Nothing Compares (2022)
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Since the beginning of her career, Sinéad O’Connor has used her powerful voice to challenge the narratives she was surrounded by while growing up in predominantly Roman Catholic Ireland. Despite her agency, depth and perspective, O’Connor’s unflinchi...
- 1969
Medium Cool (1969)
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John Cassellis is the toughest TV news reporter around. After extensively reporting about violence and racial tensions in poor communities, he discovers that his network is helping the FBI by granting them access to his footage to find suspects....
- 2004
Poster Boy (2004)
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The gay son of a conservative senator who is also the poster boy for his father's re-election unknowingly befriends a gay activist bent on destroying the hypocritical campaign....
- 2005
McLibel (2005)
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McLibel is a documentary film directed by Franny Armstrong for Spanner Films about the McLibel case. The film was first completed, as a 52 minute television version, in 1997, after the conclusion of the original McLibel trial. It was then re-edited t...
- 2022
To Die For (2022)
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Frustrated by the liberal left and what he deems the destruction of the country he risked his life for, reclusive veteran Quint North (Schneider) is ordered by the court to keep his distance from the local high school with the American flag on the ba...