Activism Movies

Seen through the eyes of activist, farmers and journalists, Waking the Green Tiger follows an extraordinary campaign to stop a huge dam project on...

The story of the ancient and sacred Gureombi Rock. The story of the people of Gangjeong Village who rise up against the construction of a US/Korea...

The documentary follows María Riot, an artist, activist, and sex worker from Argentina, as she develops her photography project “Archivo...

A powerful documentary that follows gay Namibian activist Friedel Dausab as he challenges his country’s criminalisation of same-sex love. In...

In Fairy Creek, director Jen Muranetz documents the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history, creating a searing portrait of...

Letter from Tokyo is a documentary film that looks at art, culture and politics in Tokyo, Japan. Shot over three months during the summer of 2018,...

On April 14, 2014, the sleepy agrarian town of Chibok, in the North East zone of Nigeria, was thrust into the global spotlight when the terrorist...

National Center for Lesbian Rights, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership Awards (the John R. May Award), for its...

A working student bustles through scorching Manila, pushed to a cycle of exhaustion as the disparities of a distant world of capitalist excess kindle...

A collection of stories from the Sex Worker Freedom Festival that took place in Kolkata 2012.

A short documentary chronicling the coming-of-age story of generation z punctuated by numerous culturally significant moments, known as period...

In a Rio de Janeiro where street skateboarding is banned, a group of skateboarders organize a movement to legalize skateboarding in Square XV.

Amidst the storm of Ferguson, 7 St. Louis college students evolve into advocates and activists as they demand change through policy and protest

Feeling disgruntled, a group of punks start a litter picking group to counter the amount of litter their community faces.

Planting Earth Week follows a radical climate activist who tells the story of a splitting decentralized movement that made headlines in 2019.

The workers of Safai Karmachari Andolan, led by Roman Magsaysay Award winner activist Bezwada Wilson, are on a mission to eradicate manual...