Student Protest Movies

An analysis of the social upheaval of May 1968, made in the immediate wake of the workers’ and students’ protests. The picture consists...

Andrea Pomeraro, a history teacher, has an affair with a student who then blackmails him. Attempting to retrieve the incriminating photos, he...

In April 1968, black and white students rebelled against the university administration, occupying five buildings, including the president's office in...

In the summer of revolt 1968, student Leobardo López Aretche captured the protests in Mexico City, and the state’s brutal response, up...

A middle school teacher's life is thrown into turmoil when dozens of students dye their hair gold and his girlfriend suddenly proposes marriage,...

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

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...

A documentary about the end of the student movement in 1972 and the lynching of Daizaburo Kawaguchi, a student at Waseda University. The documentary...

In this story set in near future, a group of young rebels, hippies and 1968 protesters want to cede and make an independent Island from the Mainland....

The Vietnam War protest movement from the student point of view is the basis for this documentary shot in the San Francisco Bay area and dealing...

Students from nine nations unite on August 7, 1950 at the Franco-German border near Germanshof, tear down the barriers and remove the border posts...

Exploring police brutality and institutional hostility towards Arab and Muslim students, this documentary reveals how the University of Michigan's...

This is the story of Kent State University students who stood up to question racism, violence against protesters, and the long American involvement...

A father and son, affected by the tragedy at a railway station in Serbia, grieve in different ways.

In 1968 Joan Bakewell was one of the few female TV presenters, fronting the BBC's Late Night Line-Up and addressing daily the most pressing issues of...

Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source...

A student protest erupts in the Yale Bowl during the 2019 Harvard-Yale football game.

Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing and innovation, this film celebrates the concept...