Student Protest Movies

In the 1990s' Allahabad, a brash college student gets drawn into an uproar surrounding a critical bill that will affect India's education system.

A student is held up in the library while a riot rages outside. As SDS protesters head to burn the library down, he has to fend them off with his...

In the summer of revolt 1968, student Leobardo López Aretche captured the protests in Mexico City, and the state’s brutal response, up...

Andrea Pomeraro, a history teacher, has an affair with a student who then blackmails him. Attempting to retrieve the incriminating photos, he...

The film speaks of student demonstrations in Belgrade, 1969 and of the critical quality, enthusiasm and discipline of this form of protest. It was...

Behind the gas masks of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, the often very young activists are just as diverse as the youths of the rest of the...

Rayen is a young theater student who has recently been infected HIV. She lives her illness in silence, as does her new gay friend: Manuel. Everything...

After the failed Umbrella Revolution in 2014, lives go back to normal, but the scenes of the great protest are like yesterday for Billy and Popsy,...

Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source...

The film chronicles the beginning of the student protest following the death of student Benno Ohnesorg in Berlin in June of 1967.

A documentary about the end of the student movement in 1972 and the lynching of Daizaburo Kawaguchi, a student at Waseda University. The documentary...

A young Venezuelan freedom fighter seeks asylum in the United States, but his heart remains in the fight back home.

In this story set in near future, a group of young rebels, hippies and 1968 protesters want to cede and make an independent Island from the Mainland....

Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing and innovation, this film celebrates the concept...

Situated on 1960’s student protests in Mexico City, uncomprehended and rebel, Lucía, must decide wether to stay home or leave her...

What remains of the 2012 Quebec student protests? Little has changed in the decade that ensued. Rodrigue Jean and Arnaud Valade exhume images of the...

Based on Yılmaz Güney's script and filmed in semi-documentary style, the movie provides a fresh perspective on the history of labor issues...

In 1968 Joan Bakewell was one of the few female TV presenters, fronting the BBC's Late Night Line-Up and addressing daily the most pressing issues of...

This is the story of Kent State University students who stood up to question racism, violence against protesters, and the long American involvement...

The film is about a protest provoked when the university decided to restrict access to sports facilities to athletes, cutting out all other students....