Beyond Barricades is a documentary on political punk band Anti-Flag, featuring interviews with Tom Morello, Billy Bragg, Tim McIlrath, Brian Baker & More. The film explores the trials and tribulations of playing politically charged music and devoting your life to activism.

Underground

1976

English

7.0

♡ 2

89%

Haskell Wexler Director

Haskell Wexler as Self

Bill Ayers as Self

Emile de Antonio as Self

Kathy Boudin as Self

A documentary about the Weathermen, founded as a militant faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), who fought to overthrow the U.S. government during the 1960s and 1970s. The film consists of interviews with members of the group after they went underground and footage of the anti-war and civil rights protests of the time. It was directed by Emile de Antonio, Haskell Wexler and Mary Lampson, later subpoenaed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in an attempt to confiscate the film footage in order to gain information that would help them arrest the Weathermen.

The Colonel's Stray Dogs

2021

English

6.6

♡ 3

military dictatorship

political activism

Khalid Shamis Director

In 1981, seven Libyan exiles formed the core opposition group to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Thirty years later, they are back to their country only to inherit the mess he left. The film is an intricate blend of rare first-hand accounts, propaganda archival material turned on its head, evocative cinematography and an untold history of a country.

When a City Rises

2021

Cn

7.0

♡ 2

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.

Escape from Pretoria

2020

English

♡ 177

71%

86%

1970s

Action

anc (african national congress)

apartheid

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Francis Annan Director

Ian Hart as Denis Goldberg

Mark Leonard Winter as Leonard Fontaine

Daniel Webber as Stephen Lee

Daniel Radcliffe as Tim Jenkin

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.

Free Chol Soo Lee

2022

English

7.1

♡ 4

100%

san francisco, california

wrongful imprisonment

Julie Ha Director

Jeff Adachi as Self

Chol Soo Lee as Self

Ranko Yamada as Self - Friend

K.W. Lee as Self - Investigative Reporter

On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old Korean immigrant who had previous run-ins with the law, was arrested and convicted based on flimsy evidence and the eyewitness accounts of white tourists who couldn’t distinguish between Asian features. Sentenced to life in prison, Chol Soo Lee would spend years fighting to survive behind bars before journalist K.W. Lee took an interest in his case. The intrepid reporter’s investigation would galvanize a first-of-its-kind pan-Asian American grassroots movement to fight for Chol Soo Lee’s freedom, ultimately inspiring a new generation of social justice activists.

Nothing Compares

2022

English

7.6

♡ 13

99%

Kathryn Ferguson Director

Bob Dylan as Self

Joe Pesci as Self

Sherilyn Fenn as Self

Tim Robbins as Self

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 unflinching refusal to conform means that she has often been patronized and unfairly dismissed as an attention-seeking pop star.

Letter from Masanjia

2018

English

7.9

100%

Leon Lee Director

Anonymous as Fu Ning

Fu Ning as

Julie Keith as Self Yi Sun

Yi Sun as Self

Damascus, Oregon, United States. Julie Keith finds a baffling message hidden in a pack of decorative items, a desperate plea for help, written by someone imprisoned in a Chinese labor camp called Masanjia…

Truth to Power

2021

English

7.0

♡ 7

83%

Garin Hovannisian Director

The Grammy-winning lead singer of System of a Down, Serj Tankian helps to awaken a political revolution on the other side of the world, inspiring Armenia's struggle for democracy through his music and message.

The New Greatness Case

2022

Russian

7.0

♡ 4

Anna Shishova Director

Vladimir Putin as Self

Dmitri Pavlikova as Self, Anna Pavlikova's father

Alexander Pavlikov as Self, Anya Pavlikova's uncle

Sergey Kuznetsov as self, Russian secret service agent provocateur

Anya was an ordinary Moscow teenager who found a chat group of her choice online. They talked about animals, the stars and social issues. A man called Ruslan D joined the group, who set up an office space for the online group to meet. Step by step, he began to lead young people who were critical of the Putin's regime towards political activism. Ruslan D placed a camera in the meeting room, and when he had enough footage, he handed it over to the prosecutor. The police raided the teenagers' homes and they were arrested on charges of planning to overthrow the government and terrorism. Three years of legal proceedings transformed Anya's mother from a loyal follower of Putin to a hunger-striking activist. Moscow-based director Anna Shishova followed Anya and her mother's life throughout the event and eventually revealed the true identity of Ruslan D.

Hail Satan?

2019

English

7.3

♡ 14

96%

Penny Lane Director

Geraldo Rivera as Self

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self

Bill O'Reilly as Self

Charlton Heston as Self

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.

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

2011

English

7.6

♡ 7

92%

Göran Olsson Director

Malcolm X as Self

Ahmir-Khalib Thompson as Self

Melvin Van Peebles as Self

Huey P. Newton as Self

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 in the United States during that period and includes the appearances of Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and other activists, artists, and leaders central to the movement.

Berkeley in the Sixties

1990

English

7.5

♡ 3

100%

Mark Kitchell Director

Nancy Reagan as Self

Ronald Reagan as Self

Huey P. Newton as Self

Robert Mitchum as Self

A documentary about militant student political activity at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s.

Conversation Piece

1974

Italian

7.3

♡ 13

82%

Luchino Visconti Director

Valentino Macchi as

Vittorio Fanfoni as

Burt Lancaster as Il Professore

Helmut Berger as Konrad Huebel

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 floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.

The Corporation

2003

English

8.0

♡ 7

89%

Jennifer Abbott Director

George W. Bush as Self

Kathie Lee Gifford as Self

Nelson Mandela as Self - After Release, with Winnie

Harry S. Truman as Self - Potsdam

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 examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.

America: Freedom to Fascism

2006

English

7.8

♡ 1

27%

Aaron Russo Director

Bill Clinton as Self

Jon Stewart as Self

George W. Bush as Self

Mark Everson as Self

This is a documentary about an honest search for the truth about the Federal Reserve Bank and the legality of the Internal Revenue System. Through extensive interviews with recognised experts and authority, the director shows an astonishing revelation of how the Federal Government and the Bankers have fooled the American public by taking thier wages and putting it in the pockets of the super-rich.

The Best of Youth

2003

Italian

8.4

♡ 39

94%

Marco Tullio Giordana Director

Adriana Asti as Adriana Carati

Riccardo Scamarcio as Andrea Utano

Jasmine Trinca as Giorgia Esposti

Giuseppe Battiston as Second Role

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.

Simón

2018

English

8.1

♡ 2

Diego Vicentini Director

Steve Wilcox as Dr. Moore

Kelley Mack as Melissa Moore

Alexandra Hoover as Mrs. Moore

Jorge Borrelli as Pharmacist

A young Venezuelan freedom fighter seeks asylum in the United States, but his heart remains in the fight back home.

Meeting Snowden

2017

English

6.8

♡ 2

national security agency (nsa)

political activism

whistleblower

Flore Vasseur Director

Edward Snowden as Self

Lawrence Lessig as Self

Birgitta Jónsdóttir as Self

Moscow, Russia, December 2016. Edward Snowden, Larry Lessig and Birgitta Jónsdóttir meet for the first time in a secret place. Apparently, Russia is interfering in the US presidential elections while it mourns the death of its ambassador to Turkey. Snowden carefully chooses his interviews, so nobody really knows something about him. As the world prepares for Christmas, they gather to discuss the only issue that matters, their common struggle: how to save democracy.

American Pastoral

2016

English

6.1

♡ 72

24%

32%

1970s

Action

based on novel or book

Crime

Drama

husband wife relationship

Mystery

parent child relationship

Ewan McGregor Director

Jennifer Connelly as Dawn Levov

Dakota Fanning as Merry Levov

Molly Parker as Sheila Smith

Ewan McGregor as Swede Levov

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.

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Underground

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Escape from Pretoria

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Nothing Compares

Letter from Masanjia

Truth to Power

The New Greatness Case

Hail Satan?

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Berkeley in the Sixties

Conversation Piece

The Corporation

America: Freedom to Fascism

The Best of Youth

Simón

Meeting Snowden

American Pastoral