Halverwege de jaren 80, Compton Californië. Vijf jonge mannen delen hun ervaringen door middel van het maken van 'brutale' en eerlijke muziek, die symbool staat voor de opstand tegen misbruik van gezag.

Oost Berlijn, 1984. Glasnost is heel ver weg, de bevolking wordt onderdrukt door de Oost-Duitse geheime politie: de Stasi. Haar doel: alles te weten komen.

De DDR, 1956. De avontuurlijke Theo en Kurt zijn naar West-Berlijn geweest en hebben daar op het journaal gezien dat in Boedapest bloedig een volksopstand is neergeslagen.

Over de internationaal vermaarde Chinese kunstenaar en activist Ai Weiwei. Recentelijk kreeg hij internationale aandacht voor zowel zijn ambitieuze kunstwerken alsook zijn politieke provocaties. Hier wordt ingegaan op de manier waarop artistiek en sociaal activisme samenkomen, gezien door het leven van deze kunstenaar. Regisseur Klayman, woonachtig en actief als journalist en filmmaker in Peking, kreeg toegang tot het leven van Weiwei als nooit tevoren. Ze volgde zijn voorbereidingen op grote exposities, intieme ontmoetingen met familieleden en zijn toenemend publiekelijke aanvaringen met de Chinese regering.

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.

Biopic over het leven van de controversiële en trendsettende Amerikaanse stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce.

De film vertelt het verhaal van de twaalfjarige Storm Voeten, zoon van drukker Klaas Voeten, die in het geheim verboden lectuur drukt. Als Klaas door de Inquisitie wordt betrapt tijdens het drukken van een belangrijke brief van Maarten Luther, wordt Storm ongewild het middelpunt van de jacht op deze brief. Bedreigd door de Inquisitie en geholpen door Marieke, een katholiek weesmeisje uit de ondergrondse tunnels, moet Storm in een race tegen de klok zijn vader zien te redden van de dood als ketter.

Belgrade, 2022: A photojournalist is threatened by right-wing extremist groups in her Serbian home and flees to Germany with her daughter. But then she also experiences increasing strong threats and attacks in her new home.

The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and censorship from the beginning of time until the late 1960s.

Sent to prison along with his mother after her drug conviction, a young boy develops a warm, tender relationship with a political prisoner.

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa uttered by the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini: his youth in multicultural Bombay, his life in England, his many years of forced hiding, his thoughts on President Trump's United States of America.

Spain, April 14, 1931. The Second Republic is born. From the beginning, the writer Miguel de Unamuno is considered one of the ethical pillars of the new regime. Five years later, on December 31, 1936, a few months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), Unamuno dies at his home in Salamanca, capital of the rebel side, led by General Francisco Franco, and main center of dissemination of its propaganda apparatus.

Can we really be fully human without Free Speech? Is free speech the oxygen of our society? Without it we crumble. Free Speech Fear Free get's to the core of what free speech really is, and the impact it has on our day to day lives. It compares the UK with Belarus and shows what life is really like without Free Speech. It tells chilling stories of a dictatorship that destroys people's standard of living.

Tommy Robinson goes on the offensive by documenting how his own “hit piece” on his character was being constructed by the taxpayer-funded BBC for their popular investigative news special “Panorama.” In the film he manages to capture footage of the blackmailing of his former employees to invent stories, along with an organization—known as “Hope not Hate”—on set with the BBC, intimidating ex-employees of Robinson during interviews. The host of “Panorama” at the time of filming is caught on camera casually using racist and homophobic slurs during a £220 champagne lunch with the same ex-employee they had planned to coach for a fake interview in which the BBC would possibly edit in which to make it appear as, “a gender, a sexual thing against Tommy Robinson,” according to the host. Within 24 hours of releasing the film, social media giant Facebook made a public statement of their own and removed Tommy Robinson’s accounts permanently.

The story of a Kurdish newspaper whose journalists are under the constant threat of being abducted and killed by the state security forces.

Ajit Singh, Jujhar Singh, Zorawar Singh, and Fateh Singh, the four sons of Sikh Guru Gobind Singh Ji, sacrifice their lives in an important battle against the Mughals.

This film explores freedom of speech in the United States of America

This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provisions - freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and prohibition of the infliction of cruel and unusual punishments - in the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights.

The life story of Vicente Miguel Carceller (1890-1940), a Spanish editor committed to freedom who, through his weekly magazine La Traca, connected with the common people while maintaining a dangerous pulse with the powerful.

Doaa el-Adl, the first woman to be awarded the esteemed Journalistic Distinction in Caricature, serves as a catalyst for transformation within the predominantly male-dominated realm of Egyptian political cartoonists. Challenging patriarchal norms, she routinely confronts censorship, harassment, and even threats to her life. In a remarkable fusion of documentary, cartoons, and animation, Egyptian director Nada Riyadh breathes life into el-Adl's most renowned works. This dynamic and fearless presentation delves into the issue of violence against women, stretching the boundaries of freedom of speech in a society often characterized by restrictions. Through her exceptional talent, el-Adl not only champions women's rights but also serves as an inspiration for societal change.