Social Activism Movies

An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded...

On the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, activists joined at the Lincoln Memorial for the 2020 March on...

Four years later, Hong Kong’s 2014 democratic Umbrella Movement has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, yet political backlash against...

Hong Kong's high-speed rail link, the demolition of Choi Yuen Village, the impending budget and the influence of the global Occupy movement are at...

A documentary on the Christian anarchist and co founder of the Catholic Worker movement.

Hundreds of thousands − perhaps even millions − of protestors have taken to the streets of Hong Kong since early June. Sparked initially...

Two independent stories - one from 2014 and the other from 2019 - are placed together, allowing us to look back at the Umbrella Movement and the...

Clarissa is a driven, straight-talking single Black mother and social warrior in Oakland, California. Becoming unhoused with an infant inspired her...

Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the words we use to describe it. Through research,...

The extraordinary story of the Melbourne community campaign that put a stop to the $18billion East Wast toll road link.

Habiba Djahnine went to meet activists who continue to take action. To meet them, to capture them in the spaces where they live, work or fight. They...

The documentary “Be Water” records the clash in West Kowloon on 20th October, 2019. Police issued objection notice to the march protest...

They are frozen in place, stagnating without any direction. Around them, things change rapidly.

Seven activists from Hong Kong joint the global fight against the G8 Summit in Hokkaido Japan 2008. Given the fact that global warming, labor and...

An overwhelming pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong (also described as the Occupy Movement or the Umbrella Revolution in the region) in 2014 has...

As the band Placebo approach their 20th Anniversary they were given a unique opportunity to play ten cities throughout Russia. In a time when Russia...

Franco Mella is a devoted figure whose life bridges Catholicism and Communism. He has journeyed through Asia, lived simply, and fought for social...

Activized follows the stories of seven ordinary Americans who, for the first time in their lives, have left their comfort zones and become involved...