The Weather Underground (2003), Running on Empty (1988), Medium Cool (1969), Far From Vietnam (1967), Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968), Katherine (1975), An American Carol (2008), No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Anti-war Movement movies.
Storyline: When the Beatles land in America in the early 1960s, young men wearing their hair long strike the nation as an abomination. But within a few years, youthful rebellion grows more severe: Witness the Weathermen, the radical antiwar activists who mobilize (unsuccessfully) to overthrow the U.S. government. With contemporary interviews and archival footage, this documentary elucidates the Weather Underground's controversial history and continuing significance.
Plot Keywords: radical, activist, lyndon baines johnson, richard nixon, martin luther king jr., intense, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Today, their eldest son wants a life of his own although he is aware that would mean that his parents would either get caught or he will never see them again.
Plot Keywords: father, mother, son, brother, love interest, teacher, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: John Cassellis is the toughest TV-news reporter around. His area of interest is reporting about violence in the ghetto and racial tensions. But he discovers that his network helps the FBI by letting it look at his tapes to find suspects. When he protests, he is fired and goes to the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: tv reporter, political activist, cameraman, widow, police officer, hippie, fiery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Six filmmakers present war footage and other artifacts of contemporary pop culture to examine the Vietnam War, U.S. foreign policy and President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Plot Keywords: politician, fidel castro, widow, jean-luc godard, protester, engaging, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this follow-up to "The Trouble with Angels", the wry but wise Mother Superior of St. Francis Academy For Girls accompanies a group of nuns including modern, progressive Sister George, with their high-spirited students on a bus trip across America to a California peace rally. Along the way, they encounter a series of adventures that include multiple bus problems, an overnight stay at a Catholic school for boys run by Father Chase, a Western dude ranch owned by millionaire Mr. Farriday, a flamboyant movie director shooting a Western on location, and a bunch of menacing biker toughs.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: nun, movie producer, woman, student, millionaire, bishop, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Katherine (Sissy Spacek) is a young debutante who is transformed into a revolutionary by the chaotic currents coursing through American society in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her loving, middle-class parents (Art Carney, Jane Wyatt) enable her descent into extremism. Disappointed with her radical boyfriend (Henry Winkler), who is interested more in sex than in activism, she joins a group of leftist militants who contend that only violence can enact social and political change.
Plot Keywords: debutante, hippie, revolutionary, police officer, mother, father, fiery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At a July 4 barbecue, gramps tells the kids the story of Michael Malone, a documentary filmmaker and Michael Moore look-alike who hates America and wants to abolish July 4th. He refuses to celebrate with his nephew Josh, who's shipping out soon to the Middle East. That night, Michel has a vision of his hero, JFK, who predicts that three ghosts will visit Michael. Sure enough, General Patton, George Washington, and country music star Trace Adkins visit Michael show him the fruits of patriotism, just wars, and pacifism. Meanwhile, Arab terrorists want Malone to help them with a propaganda film. Is he the next Leni Riefenstahl or will he see the light?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: filmmaker, george washington, john f. kennedy, terrorist, country singer, amusing, outlandish ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Yukie (Setsuko Hara) is a young woman living in 1930s Japan, blissfully unaware of the tumultuous political changes occurring around her. She is shocked into reality, though, when her father, a college professor, is forced to resign after preaching anti-fascist views. As she becomes more aware of the world around her, Yukie falls in love with one of her father's students who shares his radical views, even as the government seeks to crush anyone who openly opposes it.
Plot Keywords: activist, wife, professor, protester, writer, young woman, emotional ...
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