Movies and TvShows featuring "protestors" theme.
Running on Empty tells the story of a family who is constantly moving and changing identities to avoid capture by the FBI. The parents are former political activists who are wanted for their involvement in a violent protest. As they struggle to keep their family together and stay one step ahead of the law, their son faces challenges of his own, including his dreams of becoming a pianist and his growing love for a classmate.
After a blind date, crossword puzzle enthusiast Mary decides to follow Steve, a camera man she met, on a cross-country journey in hopes of finding true love. Along the way, she encounters various eccentric characters and faces multiple challenges.
Ester, who has been hiding her identity to avoid racism, gets involved in protests against a dam development in Alta. This unexpected turn of events sparks a personal journey for Ester to overcome her shame.
A group of farmers organizes a protest in front of the house of an MP who, contrary to earlier promises, voted against their interests. In the manure they dump, human remains are found.
Experience the hilarious and outrageous adventures of Borat Sagdiyev as he travels to the United States to make a documentary. Through hidden-camera pranks and unforgettable encounters, Borat exposes the absurdity and cultural differences of American society.
Refuge(e) traces the incredible journey of two refugees, Alpha and Zeferino. Each fled violent threats to their lives in their home countries and presented themselves at the US border asking for political asylum, only to be incarcerated in a for-profit prison for months on end without having committed any crime. Thousands more like them can't tell their stories.
Living in an ancient redwood tree for more than two years to prevent the tree from being clear-cut, Julia Butterfly Hill captured our hearts and minds by showing us that one person can make a difference. Through interviews with Hill, filmmaker Doug Wolens paints a portrait of an intensely spiritual and articulate woman who encountered both beauty and horror (she was assaulted by lumber company helicopters at one point) during her time above ground.
Based on actual court transcripts of 8 anti-war protesters on trial for conspiring to cause riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
In 1812 there were violent disturbances in Yorkshire when new machines were introduced into the wool industry. This film is an interpretation of those events made in the style of a documentary.
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 they share a demand for democracy and freedom. They have the will and the courage to fight – and they can see that things are going in the wrong direction in the small island city, which officially has autonomy under China but is now tightening its grip and demanding that ‘troublemakers’ be put away or silenced. Amid the violent protests, we meet a 21-year-old student, a teenage couple and a new father.
The 6 Guarani villages of Jaraguá, in São Paulo, fight for land rights, for human rights and for the preservation of nature. They suffer from the proximity to the city, which brings lack of resources, pollution of rivers and springs, racism, police violence, fires, lack of infrastructure and sanitation, among others. Unable to live like their ancestors, their millenary culture is lost as it merges with the urban culture.
Filmed in New York in the summer of 2006: a march across the Brooklyn Bridge in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese populations. Habibi means "beloved" in Arabic.
An in-depth look at the Bahraini pro-democracy movement that occurred during the Arab Spring, highlighting the struggle of protesters against the government and their fight for reform. The film sheds light on the dark reality faced by those who dared to raise their voices.
In this documentary, we explore the inspiring stories of individuals who have fought against adversity and come out stronger, showcasing the power of resilience and the pursuit of justice. The Undamaged takes viewers on a journey through different struggles and challenges, highlighting the courage and determination of those who refuse to be broken.
Faced with a lack of prosecution of those accused of crimes against humanity committed during Argentina’s military dictatorship, family members and descendants of the country’s estimated 30,000 disappeared took action. In the mid-1990s, they began gathering outside of accused perpetrators’ homes and workplaces to publicly shame them and raise awareness about the government’s systematic and brutal targeting of its people — and how it had gone unpunished. The human rights group HIJOS (Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice Against Forgetfulness and Silence) led and labeled this direct-action style of protest “escrache,” or exposure.
Recounts the incidents that occurred in La Plata on February 20, 1996, when hundreds of students, social and worker organizations demonstrated against the modification of the university statutes required by the new Higher Education Law, fearing a gradual privatization of university education with the consequent destruction of one of the main cultural bastions of the country.
Based on a true incident in 2019 when a notorious pro-Beijing Hong Kong politician openly displayed his camaraderie with the triad goons who attacked peaceful protestors. Wong's sophisticated, compact drama goes beyond agitprop and grapples with complexities and tensions in the movement. The same district election featured here is documented in Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down.
A girl from St. Petersburg walks around protest-ridden Moscow, talking to riot police and believing that sooner or later they will go over to the side of the demonstrators. An 18-year-old student of a St. Petersburg college introduces herself as Alice and tells about herself that from the age of four she lived in an orphanage and in foster families. In Moscow, Alisa, for whom this is the first rally in her life, walks along the police cordons and looks under the OMON helmet. "Under the mask you can't see, are you even human?"
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