Student Protest Movies

Discover the story of the greatest civil rights movement most people have never heard about. During eight tumultuous days in 1988 at the world's only...

A student is held up in the library while a riot rages outside. As SDS protesters head to burn the library down, he has to fend them off with his...

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

Based on Yılmaz Güney's script and filmed in semi-documentary style, the movie provides a fresh perspective on the history of labor issues...

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

As Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are...

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front...

Students seeking greater control over the hiring of faculty occupy the offices of the Political Science Department at McGill University. The film...

L, a student in India witness to the government's violent response to university protests, writes letters to her estranged lover while he is away.

Refuge(e) traces the incredible journey of two refugees, Alpha and Zeferino. Each fled violent threats to their lives in their home countries and...

When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying...

The film is about a protest provoked when the university decided to restrict access to sports facilities to athletes, cutting out all other students....

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...

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

This is the first referendum held in Hong Kong and probably the last. Some people want to grasp the chance to directly participate in the democratic...

What remains of the 2012 Quebec student protests? Little has changed in the decade that ensued. Rodrigue Jean and Arnaud Valade exhume images of the...

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

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

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...