Political Activism Movies, Movies about Political Activism

Here we've displayed a list of the best Political Activism films : U2 3D(2007), Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media(1992), The Corporation(2003), Ballot Measure 9(1994), Blind Chance(1987), Udta Punjab(2016), Sarkar(2005), Comrades(1986), The Front(1976), The Captive City(1952), If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front(2011), Made in Dagenham(2010) ... ...

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U2 3D

A 3-D presentation of U2's global "Vertigo" tour. Shot at seven different shows, this production employs the greatest number of 3-D cameras ever used for a single project.

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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

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

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The Corporation

Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.

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Ballot Measure 9

Ballot Measure 9 was an anti-gay amendment proposed to Oregon voters in 1992 by the conservative group, Oregon Citizen's Alliance. This documentary goes behind the scenes of the fight to ... See full summary »

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Blind Chance

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

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Udta Punjab

A story that revolves around drug abuse in the affluent north Indian State of Punjab and how the youth there have succumbed to it en-masse resulting in a socio-economic decline.

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Sarkar

The authority of a man, who runs a parallel government in Mumbai, is challenged. His son rises to face his enemies.

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Comrades

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of nineteenth century English farm laborers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.

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The Front

In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

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The Captive City

During the 1700s, pirate Captain Vallo seizes a British warship and gets involved in various money-making schemes involving Caribbean rebels led by El Libre, British envoy Baron Jose Gruda, and a beautiful courtesan named Consuelo.

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If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

A rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's 'number one domestic terrorist threat.'

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Made in Dagenham

A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

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Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst

February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, granddaughter of William Randolph Heart, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), who first demanded a prisoner swap for Hearst, then, as it ... See full summary »

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Goodbye Bafana

Goodbye Bafana is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.

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Fahrenheit 11/9

Filmmaker Michael Moore examines the current state of American politics, particularly the Donald Trump presidency and gun violence, while highlighting the power of grassroots democratic movements.

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Suffragette

In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end.

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The Rising of the Moon

Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest a very old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault... See full summary »

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Siempre, Luis

An immigrant from Puerto Rico is determined to bring the musical 'Hamilton' to his island home.

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For Greater Glory

A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929); a war by the people of Mexico against the atheistic Mexican government.

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The Story of Will Rogers

The homespun humorist and social critic starts as a cowboy and goes on to vaudeville, movies, radio.

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There Goes My Baby

Graduates of a Los Angeles high school in 1965 see America's culture and politics gradually change.

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Waking the Dead

A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.

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Peterloo

The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.

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Bab El-Oued City

Follows the conflict between a young Algerian man and the local Islamic fundamentalists.

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Escapade

This movie concerns a pacifist husband who is so involved in his "causes" he totally neglects his wife and two sons. The wife, ready to leave her husband, finds the schoolmaster knocking on... See full summary »

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Titanic Town

A Belfast, Northern Ireland housewife takes up the peace cause, which causes her family trouble with I.R.A. sympathizers.

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The Pursuit of Happiness

A young college student is sent to prison as much for killing a pedestrian with his car as for not paying his parking tickets. When the opportunity presents itself he escapes and is ... See full summary »

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The Fifth Estate

A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.

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Half of a Yellow Sun

Sisters Olanna and Kainene return home to 1960s Nigeria, where they soon diverge on different paths. As civil war breaks out, political events loom larger than their differences as they join the fight to establish an independent republic.

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Wild in the Streets

A young man gains significant political influence as the leader of a counterculture rock band with his rallying cry of voting rights for teenagers.

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