Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "activism", "revolution"

1. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

R | 129 min | Drama, History, Thriller

The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

Director: Aaron Sorkin | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong

Votes: 193,668

2. Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

R | 126 min | Biography, Drama, History

Offered a plea deal by the FBI, William O'Neal infiltrates the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party to gather intelligence on Chairman Fred Hampton.

Director: Shaka King | Stars: LaKeith Stanfield, Daniel Kaluuya, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback

Votes: 91,629

3. Amazing Grace (2006)

PG | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History

The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.

Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Romola Garai

Votes: 25,708 | Gross: $21.21M

4. Waking the Dead (2000)

R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.

Director: Keith Gordon | Stars: Billy Crudup, Bill Haugland, Nelson Landrieu, Ivonne Coll

Votes: 7,640 | Gross: $0.33M

5. For Sama (2019)

TV-PG | 100 min | Documentary, Biography, War

FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.

Directors: Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts | Stars: Waad Al-Kateab, Sama Al-Khateab, Hamza Al-Khateab, Afra

Votes: 12,836 | Gross: $0.04M

6. The Edukators (2004)

R | 127 min | Drama, Romance

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

Director: Hans Weingartner | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg, Burghart Klaußner

Votes: 32,388 | Gross: $0.18M

7. Walkout (2006 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 110 min | Drama

A teacher becomes a mentor to Chicano high-school students protesting injustices in schools in 1968.

Director: Edward James Olmos | Stars: Alexa PenaVega, Michael Peña, Yancey Arias, Laura Harring

Votes: 1,576

8. Rosa Luxemburg (1986)

Not Rated | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History

After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.

Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Daniel Olbrychski, Otto Sander, Adelheid Arndt

Votes: 1,924

9. Katherine (1975 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 97 min | Drama

A harrowing look at the 1960s and early 1970s through the eyes of Katherine Alman, a wealthy debutante who slowly, but inexorably spirals down into a fight for the causes that shook a nation, leading a path to the underground life.

Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Art Carney, Sissy Spacek, Henry Winkler, Julie Kavner

Votes: 424

10. The Weather Underground (2002)

Unrated | 92 min | Documentary, History, War

The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.

Directors: Sam Green, Bill Siegel | Stars: Lili Taylor, Pamela Z, Jim Lange, Evan White

Votes: 3,770 | Gross: $0.56M

11. Children of the Revolution (1996)

R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Few knew that Stalin spent his last night in the arms of a young Australian woman. Few still knew that their "love-child" brought Australia to the brink of civil war. Until now.

Director: Peter Duncan | Stars: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, F. Murray Abraham, Richard Roxburgh

Votes: 2,428 | Gross: $0.83M

12. Ako si Ninoy (2023)

120 min | Action, Biography, Crime

The film chronicles the life and tragic death of Philippine's national hero, former Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Simeon Aquino Jr.

Director: Vince Tañada | Stars: Juan Karlos Labajo, Sarah Holmes, Bodjie Pascua, Johnrey Rivas

Votes: 241

13. Havel (2020)

104 min | Biography, Drama, History

'Havel' covers the Czech president's transformation from playwright to politician

Director: Slávek Horák | Stars: Anna Geislerová, Barbora Seidlová, Martin Hofmann, Stanislav Majer

Votes: 509

14. Lions Among Men (2011)

22 min | Short, Action, Adventure

After masking her identity as a woman and joining the British Royal Navy in 1808, Victoria finds herself shipwrecked on an unknown island with the Lieutenant who betrayed her, the slave ... See full summary »

Director: Traci Hays | Stars: Johanna Watts, Dayo Okeniyi, Crispian Belfrage, Jonah Priour

Votes: 35

15. Trumped (I) (2019)

88 min | Comedy, Drama

A group of young activists decide to push back against the rising xenophobia in their South East London community, being stirred by a particularly vocal politician. When an opportunity for ... See full summary »

Director: Rodrigo Vázquez | Stars: Tessa Hart, Nansi Nsue, Erin Wilson, Carlos Mapano

Votes: 34

16. Occupy Unmasked (2012)

Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary

An alternate look at Occupy Wall Street camps around the country.

Director: Steve Bannon | Stars: Saul Alinsky, Anthony Averest, Bill Ayers, Michelle Balin

Votes: 610 | Gross: $0.05M

17. The Whip (IV)

82 min | Drama, Thriller | Post-production

With the looming threat of devastating welfare reforms known as Independence Credit, a full-time carer plots an audacious heist in a bid to halt the scheme in its tracks.

Director: Christopher Presswell | Stars: Shian Denovan, Gala Wesson, Tom Knight, Daniel Davids

18. Pro-Black Sheep (2009)

98 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Character-driven satirical drama about a young, extraordinarily intellectual "black activist" wannabe who is discovered as the political critic sending out anonymous emails that criticize ... See full summary »

Director: Clayton Broomes Jr. | Stars: Alfred E. Rutherford, Ellie Foumbi, Christine Tracy, Carl Garrison

Votes: 25

19. Behind the Mask (2006)

Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary

Behind the Mask: The Story Of The People Who Risk Everything To Save Animals is a 2006 documentary film about the Animal Liberation Front. It took three years of filming, interviewing, and editing to complete.

Director: Shannon Keith | Stars: Shannon Keith, Keith Mann, Kevin Kjonaas, Rod Coronado

Votes: 201

20. The Year I Did Nothing (2019)

75 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Set in 1985, Manila, 3 Filipino siblings spend an extended summer waiting to immigrate to the United States, while the Philippines gets ready to evict their homeland's notorious dictator, Ferdinand Marcos.

Director: Ana Barredo | Stars: Nora Lapena, Jared Xander Silva, Faith Toledo, Bianca Buena

Votes: 23

21. #chicagoGirl: The Social Network Takes on a Dictator (2013)

Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary, Action, Biography

From the Chicago suburbs, an American teenager helps run the Syrian revolution. With social media, she helps her network expose regime atrocities. But as the violence rages everyone must choose their weapon: Facebook or AK-47s.

Director: Joe Piscatella | Stars: Ala'a Basatneh, Aous Al-Mubarak, Bassel Shehadeh, Mazhar 'Omar' Tayara

Votes: 249

22. For Liberty: How the Ron Paul Revolution Watered the Withered Tree of Liberty (2009)

Not Rated | 116 min | Documentary

A grassroots documentary film about Congressman Ron Paul's 2007-08 Presidential campaign.

Directors: Corey Kealiher, Chris Rye | Stars: Dan Bachelder, Eric Burke, Fergus Cullen, Bob Dwyer

Votes: 389

23. The MoveOn.org Story (2009)

Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary

Documentary focusing on the revolutionary history of the biggest progressive grass-roots movement seen in the United States since the 1960s.

Director: Alex Jordanov | Stars: Joan Blades, Wes Boyd, Laura Dawn, Thelma Drake

Votes: 28

24. Aria Kalsan: Pearls Before Swine (2009)

43 min | Short, Drama

Two hired Kalsan investigate the murder of a despised mining boss and the disappearance of a charismatic political revolutionary on the desolate but mineral rich planet of Mari.

Director: Jon E. Wilhelm | Stars: Christina Capadona, Michelle McCluggage, Chuck Cavanaugh, Michael Reddy

Votes: 22

25. South of the Border (1988)

63 min | Documentary, Music, War

David Bradbury's documentary examines how the political and economic struggle in Central America is expressed through the music of the people south of the border, from Mexico to Managua.

Director: David Bradbury | Star: Peter Garrett

26. Trouble (2017–2020)

30 min | Documentary

Trouble, a brand-new monthly show offering an in-depth anarchist analysis of current struggles, tactics and movement dynamics.

27. America and Me (2017)

87 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Australian filmmaker David Bradbury has been coming and going to the United States for the last forty years. A one-man band political activist who always travels with his camera, the twice ... See full summary »

Director: David Bradbury | Star: David Vine

28. Help Your People or Legalise Assisted Suicide (2013 TV Movie)

28 min | Documentary, Action, Adventure

Wendell begins the year by putting into practice all of the theory that he laid out last year.

Director: Wendell Charles NeSmith | Star: Wendell Charles NeSmith

29. Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)
Episode: Shooting and F**king Are the Same Thing (2021)

74 min | Documentary, History

The story of what tore the revolutions in the 1960s apart. Jiang Qing in China, Michael X in London, Afeni Shakur in New York believed that millions of people's minds were haunted by the ... See full summary »

Stars: H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Adam Curtis, Michael de Freitas

Votes: 121

30. New Discourses (2020– )
Repressive Tolerance: Left Good, Right Bad, What Could Go Wrong? (2021 Podcast Episode)

69 min

James Lindsay continues his look into Herbert Marcuse's essay "Repressive Tolerance." He notes the darker aspects of Marcuse's argument, highlighting how Marcuse advocates for a biased form of tolerance that favors left-wing movements.

Star: James Lindsay

31. New Discourses (2020– )
The True History of Intersectionality (2022 Podcast Episode)

113 min

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Star: James Lindsay

32. New Discourses (2020– )
Protest and Paranoia (2021 Podcast Episode)

114 min

James Lindsay critiques critical race theory in education, arguing it views policy through a lens of power dynamics and paranoia, promoting a belief that genuine progress is only achievable through political protest and confrontation.

Star: James Lindsay

33. New Discourses (2020– )
The Social-Emotional Learning Bait-and-Switch (2022 Podcast Episode)

106 min

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