Democracy Movies

A secretive hedge fund is plundering America's newspapers, and the journalists are fighting back. Backed by the NewsGuild union, they go toe-to-toe...

Moscow, Russia, December 2016. Edward Snowden, Larry Lessig and Birgitta Jónsdóttir meet for the first time in a secret place....

In the Swedish general elections of 2014, the Sweden Democrats (far-right) became the Riksdag's third largest party. By tradition - and through a...

Local elections are taking place in Georgia in 2025. The frontrunner is the pro-Russian Georgian Dream party, accused of rigging the previous...

Christian Garcia, a fiercely dedicated Latino political organizer, leads a team of young people mobilizing their community for a soda tax. Tested...

In October 1995, Forbach witnessed one of the most violent strikes in the history of contemporary France. A thousand or so miners took to the streets...

Four emerging filmmakers present a collection of gritty short crime dramas and thrillers that reflect Thailand's social issues and politics.

Syrian brothers Adel and Hadi Bakkour take to the streets of Rio de Janeiro fighting for democracy in the country where they chose to live. History...

After 10 years of life on the run and five years in prison, activist Yun Gi-jin is finally released, only to find he faces another trial. Questioning...

A documentary footage of a student following a government official on a secret mission to hunt down "Mikhailov," a communist traitor hiding within...

When Israel is hijacked from within by extremist political forces, a group of citizens transform overnight into protest leaders. They embark on an...

African Underground: Democracy in Dakar is a groundbreaking documentary film about hip-hop youth and politics in Dakar Senegal. The film follows...

The faces of ten women, actual mothers of [pH2]: estado de teatro’s members, expand the face of Helena Failure and enact the misfortunes that...

A woman asks "what's the meaning of democracy?" as she looks back over the politics of Kenya from the 1960s to the 2007 election.

When artist Janet Biehl fell in love with radical American philosopher Murray Bookchin in the 1980s whilst editing his ground-breaking opus...

The documentary film of the brief window of artistic freedom and democracy movement 1978 - 1982 following China's brutal cultural revolution.

THE MAZE dissects the terror-attacks since Paris Bataclan in November 2015 and looks for common patterns. Why was intelligence failing? And why keep...

In the summer of 2011, Nadir Bouhmouch, a Moroccan student studying abroad in California returns to his home country and finds it in a state of...

In September 1847, the people gathered at the “Salmen” inn in Offenburg and put forward 13 demands: freedom of the press, trial by jury,...

It is a famous saying: "One can come to power with a bayonet, but not sit on it." The organization, which carried out 27 May, came to power with a...