Em meados dos anos 80, o grupo NWA, que integra Ice Cube, Dr. Dre e Eazy-E, emerge das ruas perigosas de Los Angeles, Califórnia, para revolucionar a cultura do hip-hop com a sua música e as suas narrativas sobre a vida no bairro.
No início dos anos 80, na antiga RDA, o bem sucedido dramaturgo Georg, e a sua companheira de muitos anos Christa, uma famosa actriz, são duas das grandes estrelas intelectuais do estado socialista, apesar de, em privado, não concordarem com tudo o que o partido faz. O Ministro da Cultura que começa a interessar-se por Christa, manda um agente secreto espiar o casal. O agente encarregue da tarefa começa a interessar-se profundamente na vida do casal.
The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the establishment as too obscene for the public.
A história de The Satanic Temple, um movimento controverso que combina religião e ativismo com o objetivo aparente de questionar os fundamentos básicos da sociedade americana.
Sent to prison along with his mother after her drug conviction, a young boy develops a warm, tender relationship with a political prisoner.
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.
Stalinstadt, Alemanha Oriental, 1956. Enquanto a revolta húngara contra os soviéticos está ocorrendo, os adolescentes de uma sala de aula da escola local realizam um ato aparentemente inofensivo, mas com consequências inesperadas.
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.
Storm Voeten (Davy Gomez) é um jovem corajoso, capaz de começar uma rebelião a fim de defender o que ele pensa e as pessoas que ama. É por causa disso que ele acaba se tornando alvo de uma caçada durante o período da Inquisição. Agora, Storm só conta com a ajuda de uma misteriosa garota (Juna de Leeuw) para sobreviver.
A cinematic reflection on the lives of two middle-aged gay men and the formative value of personal freedom.
An account of the many tribulations that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, known for his subversive art and political activism, endured between 2008 and 2011, from his rise to world fame via the Internet to his highly publicized arrest due to his frequent and daring confrontations with the Chinese authorities.
“Silenced” is a film about the state of free speech in America.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in 1973, which forever shook the very foundations of communist ideology.