Uganda has one the youngest populations in the world and one of its most flagrantly anti-democratic governments. These are ingredients for revolution, and Bobi Wine and his wife Barbie Kyagulanyi are stirring the pot. When the charismatic Bobi, a musician and member of parliament, announces his campaign for president, Uganda’s youth are ecstatic, filling parks and streets for every speech, and singing Bobi’s anthems of peace and freedom. But then comes the crackdown, orchestrated by Yoweri Museveni, a brutal dictator who has ruled Uganda for 36 years. Bobi and his crew survive arrests, beatings, torture, riots and raids.
Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.
A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.
Gloria Allred overcame trauma and personal setbacks to become one of the nation’s most famous women’s rights attorneys. Now the feminist firebrand takes on two of the biggest adversaries of her career, Bill Cosby and Donald Trump, as sexual violence allegations grip the nation and keep her in the spotlight.
A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
An actress of political torture movies made by her husband has to finish his latest film and arrange a screening for distributors while the husband, who is also secretly an anarchist revolutionary, is away for some resistance operation.
Examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in US society from 1967 to 1975. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists in the United States during that period and includes the appearances of Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and other activists, artists, and leaders central to the movement.
19世紀末のハワイ王国。スコットランド人を父に持つ王女カイウラニは親米の白人反王制派が反乱を起こしたために、父アーチボルド(アーチー)とともにイギリスに渡り、そこで父の旧友テオ・デイヴィーズの屋敷に預けられる。イギリスで教育を受けることになったカイウラニは、テオの娘アリスの友情に支えられ、周囲の露骨な差別にも毅然と立ち向かう。やがてカイウラニは、アリスの兄クライヴと愛し合うようになる。
A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), a dissident, a woodpecker who tirelessly pecked the putrid brain of the Communist regime for decades, demanding democracy loudly and fearlessly. Silenced, arrested, convicted, imprisoned, dead. Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2010, alive forever. These are his last words.
Described as "an Aboriginal Kramer vs Kramer," this is the moving account of an Aboriginal political activist fighting his white ex-wife for joint custody of their son.
『仮面の告白』『潮騒』『金閣寺』『憂国』『サド侯爵夫人』など、数々の名作を著し三島由紀夫(井浦新)はノーベル賞候補と目される文豪になっていた。その一方で、学生運動全盛期の1968年(昭和43年)、三島は民族派の学生らとともに民兵組織・楯の会を結成。有事の際には自衛隊とともに治安出動し、自衛隊国軍化に命を賭す覚悟であった。しかし暴動が起きても警視庁機動隊がこれを治め、自衛隊の出る幕はなく、三島と楯の会の面々は歯噛みする。三島の見つめてきた二・二六事件、浅沼稲次郎社会党委員長刺殺事件、安田講堂事件をはじめとする学生運動、戦後の日本とは。そして、1970年(昭和45年)11月25日、三島は楯の会の4人と共に、陸上自衛隊市ヶ谷駐屯地へと向かう。
A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take revenge.
This communist and parliamentarian leader was arrested and tortured, and became famous for having written the "Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla". Greatest name of the left-wing militancy in Brazil in the 1960s, Carlos Marighella acted in the main political events of Brazil between the 1930s and 1969 and was considered enemy number one of the Brazilian military dictatorship. His life was a great act of resistance and courage.
Herrmann is a leftist Thirty Something, who is still politically active, despite beginning to live the usual life of having a girlfriend and a child. On the way to his weekly political meeting he is kidnapped.
William Francome is a fairly typical, white middle-class guy. Typical except for the fact that he is about to embark on a journey into the dark heart of the American judicial system; the tangled world of renowned Death Row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims that he will help free him.
The Grammy-winning lead singer of System of a Down, Serj Tankian helps to awaken a political revolution on the other side of the world, inspiring Armenia's struggle for democracy through his music and message.
This BBC documentary chronicles the life of folk/soft-rock singer John Denver through his rise with The Chad Mitchell Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary, his subsequent stardom, his popularity decline, and his tragic death at age 53.
The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.