End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock (2021), Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (2018), The Yes Men (2003), The Times of Harvey Milk (1984), F.T.A. (1972), Audrie & Daisy (2016), Ballot Measure 9 (1994), Padman (2018) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Activism movies.
Storyline: Indigenous women unite to stop the oil pipeline that threatens their land, water, and very existence.
Plot Keywords: documentary, environmental, social movement, protest, female leadership, activism, climate change ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Drawn from a never before seen cache of personal footage spanning decades, Stephen Loveridge creates an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician known as M.I.A.
Plot Keywords: documentary, music, biography, hip hop, activism, immigration, identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Anti-corporate pranksters pose as spokesmen for the World Trade Organization at lectures and conferences around the world.
Plot Keywords: documentary, political, activism, satire, prank, globalization, capitalism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 2 Members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Harvey Milk & San Francisco Mayor, 'George Moscone (I)' were assassinated by recently resigned Supervisor Dan White on Monday, November 27th, 1978, approximately 8:45 AM to 9:15 AM. Milk's life leading up to his election, his successful efforts to politically represent San Francisco's gay community, and the city's reaction to the assassinations are documented with extensive news film and personal recollections.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, lgbtq+, politics, activism, san francisco, civil rights ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Francine Parker documents Jane Fonda's tour with musicians and activists opposed to the Vietnam War.
Plot Keywords: documentary, political, anti-war, vietnam war, military, protest, soldiers ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After two teenage girls from opposite sides of the country are sexually assaulted by boys they know, they become suicidal when they are harassed online and at school.
Plot Keywords: documentary, true crime, social issue, teenagers, sexual assault, cyberbullying, victim ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ballot Measure 9 was an anti-gay amendment proposed to Oregon voters in 1992 by the conservative group, Oregon Citizen's Alliance. This documentary goes behind the scenes of the fight to stop Measure 9. It contains portions of anti-gay videos produced by the Citizen's Alliance as well as news clips and interviews with the people who successfully fought passage of Measure 9.—Travis <mtharris@erols.com>
Plot Keywords: documentary, political, lgbtq+, election, civil rights, social movement, american politics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Biography on Tamil Nadu activist Arunachalam Muruganantham, whose mission was to provide sanitary napkin's to poor women of rural areas. Who would use rag cloths or leaves during periods where use of sanitary napkins was rare. After he did not get fruitful results from his family and a medical college he approached, he decided to try it himself by making a uterus out of football bladder and filling goat's blood in it. He would roam around the whole day with the bladder, the aim was to check the absorption rate of the sanitary napkins made by him.
Plot Keywords: social issue, biographical, drama, inspirational, taboo, innovation, entrepreneurship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 'We Were Here' is the first film to take a deep and reflective look back at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco, and how the City's inhabitants dealt with that unprecedented calamity. It explores what was not so easy to discern in the midst of it all - the parallel histories of suffering and loss, and of community coalescence and empowerment. Though this is a San Francisco based story, the issues it addresses extend not only beyond San Francisco but also beyond AIDS itself. 'We Were Here' speaks to our societal relationship to death and illness, our capacity as individuals to rise to the occasion, and the importance of community in addressing unimaginable crises.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, lgbt, san francisco, history, epidemic, community, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.—Jwelch5742
Plot Keywords: documentary, race, civil rights, american history, social justice, racism, black culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "Punishment Park" is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types across the desert in a type of capture the flag game. The soldiers vow not to interfere with the rebels' progress and merely shepherd them along to their destination. At that point, having obtained their goal, they will be released. The film crew's coverage is meant to insure that the military's intentions are honorable. As the representatives of the 60's counter-culture get nearer to passing this arbitrary test, the soldiers become increasingly hostile, attempting to force the hippies out of their pacifist behavior. A lot of this film appears improvised and in several scenes real tempers seem to flare as some of the "acting" got overaggressive. This is a interesting exercise in situational ethics. The cinéma vérité style, hand-held camera, and ambiguous demands of the director - would the actors be able to maintain their roles given the hazing they were taking - pushed some to the brink. The cast's emotions are clearly on the surface. Unfortunately this film has gone completely underground and is next to impossible to find. It would offer a captivating document of the distrust that existed between soldiers willfully serving in the military and those persons who opposed the war peacefully.—Dick Rockwell <dr1orok@atlas.moa.net>
Plot Keywords: political thriller, mockumentary, dystopian, social critique, american politics, activism, survival game ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This film recounts the people and events leading up to the one of the most despicable hate-crimes during the height of the civil-rights movement, the bombing of the 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama. In that attack, four little African-American girls lost their lives and a nation was simultaneously revolted, angered and galvanized to push the fight for equality and justice on.—Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
Plot Keywords: documentary, history, civil rights, racism, 1960s, bombing, african american ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary highlights the historical contexts that gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders have occupied in cinema history, and shows the evolution of the entertainment industry's role in shaping perceptions of LGBT figures. The issues addressed include secrecy -- which initially defined homosexuality -- as well as the demonization of the homosexual community with the advent of AIDS, and finally the shift toward acceptance and positivity in the modern era.
Plot Keywords: documentary, lgbtq+, film history, hollywood, film industry, historical, adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Robert Redford narrates this environmentally conscious documentary, which offers a rafting tour of the majestic Grand Canyon. Throughout the adventure, the filmmakers question the water consumption habits of contemporary Americans, while contrasting these current trends with the practices of the Native Americans who previously inhabited the Colorado River basin. The documentarians also explore ways in which Americans could develop a more harmonious relationship with their natural water sources.
Plot Keywords: documentary, adventure, nature, environment, conservation, river, exploration ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The tragedy taking place in Darfur as seen through the eyes of an American witness and who has since returned to the US to take action to stop it. Uses the photographs and first hand testimony of former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle to take the viewer on a journey into the heart of Darfur, Sudan, where an Arab run government is systematically executing a plan to rid the province of its black African citizens. As an official military observer, Steidle had access to parts of the country that no journalist could penetrate. Ultimately frustrated by the inaction of the international community, Steidle resigned and returned to the US to expose the images and stories of lives systematically destroyed. We witness Steidle's transformation from soldier to observer to witness and, finally, to passionate activist and moral hero.—International Film Circuit
Plot Keywords: documentary, war, genocide, human rights, africa, conflict, journalism ...
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