Social Activism Movies, Movies about Social Activism

Here we've displayed a list of the best Social Activism films : 12 Monkeys(1995), Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000(1975), Amazing Grace(2006), Heroes for Sale(1933), Offside(2006), Blossoms in the Dust(1941), The Shocking Miss Pilgrim(1947), I'm Not Rappaport(1996), Ann Vickers(1933), In Dubious Battle(2016), A Small Circle of Friends(1980), The Jack London Story(1943) ... ...

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12 Monkeys

In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.

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Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

The European equivalent of "The Return of the Secaucus 7," this Swiss film looks at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" ... See full summary »

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Amazing Grace

The idealist William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd) maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.

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Heroes for Sale

A veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world.

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Offside

Struggle of Women in a country that excludes them from entering the stadiums.

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Blossoms in the Dust

After losing her young son, Edna Gladney opposes the unfair laws discriminating against children whose parents are unknown, and opens an orphanage for those children.

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The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men object to her at first, she soon charms... See full summary »

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I'm Not Rappaport

Two old men - a white former radical, and a black retired janitor - strike up an unusual and funny friendship on a park bench in New York, where they deal with family, drug dealers, and the pitfalls of age.

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Ann Vickers

A prison reformer and a controversial judge fall in love and have a child out of wedlock.

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In Dubious Battle

An activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s.

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A Small Circle of Friends

Harvard in the 1960's: a time of social upheaval and student unrest. Three students bond together, challenge the system and begin to lose their ideals.

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The Jack London Story

The writer (Michael O'Shea) joins the Alaskan gold rush, goes to sea, finds a wife (Susan Hayward) and covers the Russo-Japanese War.

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Colonel Effingham's Raid

A retired Army colonel (Charles Coburn) writes a newspaper column blasting the crooks who run his Georgia hometown.

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