Student Protest Movies

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

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku's iconoclastic New Wave. At the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

Rayen is a young theater student who has recently been infected HIV. She lives her illness in silence, as does her new gay friend: Manuel. Everything...

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...

The film chronicles the beginning of the student protest following the death of student Benno Ohnesorg in Berlin in June of 1967.

After the failed Umbrella Revolution in 2014, lives go back to normal, but the scenes of the great protest are like yesterday for Billy and Popsy,...

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...

Situated on 1960’s student protests in Mexico City, uncomprehended and rebel, Lucía, must decide wether to stay home or leave her...

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