Lake of Fire (2006), Blame It on Fidel (2006), End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock (2021), Maze (2017), The Weather Underground (2003), The Organizer (1963), 12th & Delaware (2010), Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation (2019) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Protest movies.
Storyline: An unflinching documentary shot in black and white, this film focuses on the heated topic of abortion. Directed by British-born filmmaker Tony Kaye, the production depicts the heated ongoing abortion debate in America, and features graphic footage of actual medical procedures. Presenting people on both pro-choice and pro-life sides of the issue, the documentary includes interviews with philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky, anti-abortion activist Randall Terry and numerous others.
Plot Keywords: controversy, documentary, morality, religion, politics, social issue, ethics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Anna must deal with losing her privileges when her well-off parents become leftist activists.
Plot Keywords: politics, family, coming of age, revolution, france, child's perspective, ideology ...
Movie Details Click Here !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: Inspired by the true events of the 1983 breakout of 38 Irish Republican prisoners from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.
Plot Keywords: prison, escape, protest, historical, true story, uk, conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !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: documentary, history, politics, radicalism, anti-war, social movement, revolution ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is the title character in this darkly comedic Italian drama about mistreated factory workers in the city of Turin. Toiling away in appalling conditions in a textile mill, these employees have no one to stand up for them until Sinigaglia puts his academic career on the line by helping them to start a strike. Although the teacher comes under scrutiny by unsympathetic authorities, he maintains his dedication to the workers' cause.
Plot Keywords: working class, exploitation, poverty, protest, oppression, social injustice, class struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: One street corner in Fort Pierce, Fla., is home to both a for-profit abortion clinic and a Roman Catholic Church-supported pregnancy clinic whose mission is to prevent women from obtaining abortions. While the abortion clinic takes precautions against threats of violence and fends off protesters, the pregnancy clinic actively spreads misinformation to women about the dangers of abortion. Though neither side will speak to the other, the battle over a woman's right to choose rages on.
Plot Keywords: documentary, social issues, controversy, women's rights, politics, morality, religion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Featuring never-before-seen footage, filmmaker Barak Goodman examines the cultural, political and social ramifications of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival in upstate New York.
Plot Keywords: music festival, documentary, counterculture, rock music, historical event, music history, american culture ...
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: This Canadian documentary portrays the 1990 showdown between the Mohawk Nation and the predominantly white Quebec town of Oka, which is intent on developing land deemed sacred by the native people. When members of the Mohawk tribe protest plans to expand a golf course into their territory, they form a barricade, leading to an armed standoff with provincial police that becomes increasingly tense, with the possibility of violence looming over the heads of everyone involved.
Plot Keywords: documentary, history, canada, resistance, social justice, political, conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Richard O'Barry was the man who captured and trained the dolphins for the television show Flipper (1964). O'Barry's view of cetaceans in captivity changed from that experience when as the last straw he saw that one of the dolphins playing Flipper - her name being Kathy - basically committed suicide in his arms because of the stress of being in captivity. Since that time, he has become one of the leading advocates against cetaceans in captivity and for the preservation of cetaceans in the wild. O'Barry and filmmaker 'Louie Psihoyos (I)' go about trying to expose one of what they see as the most cruel acts against wild dolphins in the world in Taiji, Japan, where dolphins are routinely corralled, either to be sold alive to aquariums and marine parks, or slaughtered for meat. The primary secluded cove where this activity is taking place is heavily guarded. O'Barry and Psihoyos are well known as enemies by the authorities in Taiji, the authorities who will use whatever tactic to expel the two from Japan forever. O'Barry, Psihoyos and their team covertly try to film as a document of conclusive evidence this cruel behavior. They employ among others Hollywood cameramen and deep sea free divers. They also highlight what is considered the dangerous consumption of dolphin meat (due to its high concentration of mercury) which is often sold not as dolphin meat, and the Japanese government's methodical buying off of poorer third world nations for their support of Japan's whaling industry, that support most specifically at the International Whaling Commission.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: documentary, environmental, japan, hunting, animal rights, academy award, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The futility and irony of the war in the trenches in WWI is shown as a unit commander in the French army must deal with the mutiny of his men and a glory-seeking general after part of his force falls back under fire in an impossible attack.
Plot Keywords: war, anti-war, world war i, justice, corruption, sacrifice, honor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In April 2002, an Irish film crew is making a documentary about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, when a coup from the opposition is made.
Plot Keywords: documentary, political, media, journalism, revolution, democracy, propaganda ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Arab Spring in Egypt: From a dictator to free elections, back to a dictatorship. One comedy show united the country and tested the limits of free press. This is the story of Bassem Youssef, a cardiologist turned comedian, the Jon Stewart of Egypt, and his show "The Show".—Madeingermany
Plot Keywords: documentary, politics, satire, media, revolution, comedy, social movement ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Between 1986 and 1991, the people of Estonia protested against their Soviet occupiers in large rallies. Although these protests were fundamentally peaceful, the Estonians used a weapon powerful enough to rattle an empire: song. Patriotic songs, to be precise, which the Soviets had outlawed in Estonia. Thousands upon thousands would assemble to sing in defiance. This documentary unveils the story of a population that stood up against their oppressors with nothing but their voices and their pride.
Plot Keywords: history, documentary, independence movement, soviet union, revolution, music, nationalism ...
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