Movies: Activist

  • 1969
    Being Heumann

    Being Heumann (1969)

    Being Heumann

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    In 1977, Judy Heumann leads over a hundred disabled people to take over the San Francisco Federal Building, kicking off a 28-day sit-in....

    Being Heumann
  • 2014
    The Yes Men Are Revolting

    The Yes Men Are Revolting (2014)

    The Yes Men Are Revolting

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    Activist-pranksters Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano pull the rug out from under mega-corporations, government officials and a complacent media in a series of outrageous stunts designed to draw awareness to the issue of climate change....

    The Yes Men Are Revolting
  • 2015
    Bikes vs Cars

    Bikes vs Cars (2015)

    Bikes vs Cars

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    Bikes vs Cars depicts a global crisis that we all deep down know we need to talk about: Climate, earth's resources, cities where the entire surface is consumed by the car. An ever-growing, dirty, noisy traffic chaos. The bike is a great tool for chan...

    Bikes vs Cars
  • 2014
    Who Is Vermin Supreme? An Outsider Odyssey

    Who Is Vermin Supreme? An Outsider Odyssey (2014)

    Who Is Vermin Supreme? An Outsider Odyssey

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    Vermin Supreme is no ordinary presidential candidate. Promising a free pony for every American, a fully funded time travel research program, and unprecedented zombie preparedness initiatives for a new American Republic, he truly is the people's candi...

    Who Is Vermin Supreme? An Outsider Odyssey
  • 2022
    Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream

    Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream (2022)

    Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream

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    The real dream of the American pastor Martin Luther King was never limited to civil rights. He hoped for a just America, where poverty would no longer have a place. Social equality was for him the only guarantee of a true emancipation. During the las...

    Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream
  • 2020
    Willie Nelson American Outlaw

    Willie Nelson American Outlaw (2020)

    Willie Nelson American Outlaw

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    Willie Nelson - American Outlaw captures the most iconic moments from a one-night-only concert event honoring Willie Nelson and his music. This two-hour program is packed with over 20 original performances, never before seen interviews and captivatin...

    Willie Nelson American Outlaw
  • 2004
    One Wedding and a Revolution

    One Wedding and a Revolution (2004)

    One Wedding and a Revolution

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    This short film reveals the inspiration, motivation and political challenges at San Francisco City Hall during the frantic days leading up to the first government-sanctioned same-sex marriage....

    One Wedding and a Revolution
  • 2024
    A Life Among Elephants

    A Life Among Elephants (2024)

    A Life Among Elephants

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    60 years ago, almost nothing was known of elephants in the wild. But then one young Scottish biologist changed that forever. In 1965 Iain Douglas-Hamilton arrived in Tanzania to live alongside African elephants. Later joined by his wife Oria and daug...

    A Life Among Elephants
  • 2020
    Prime Farmland

    Prime Farmland (2020)

    Prime Farmland

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    This documentary film follows farmers and activists fighting together to stop the Indiana Enterprise Center, a mega-sized industrial park planned west of South Bend, Indiana...

    Prime Farmland
  • 2022
    Whina

    Whina (2022)

    Whina

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    The story of Dame Whina Cooper, the beloved Māori matriarch who worked tirelessly to improve the rights of her people, especially women. Flawed yet resilient, Whina tells the story of a woman formed by tradition, compelled by innovation, and guided b...

    Whina
  • 2019
    André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer

    André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer (2019)

    André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer

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    Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plot twist. Politician. General De Gaulle's shadow. Overwhelmed by the weight of power. The numerous exploits of André Malraux (1901-1976)....

    André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
  • 2013
    Arise

    Arise (2013)

    Arise

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    A film that captures the portraits and stories of extraordinary women around the world who are coming together to heal the injustices against the earth, weaves together poetry, music, art, and stunning scenery to create a hopeful and collective story...

    Arise
  • 2015
    Taking Alcatraz

    Taking Alcatraz (2015)

    Taking Alcatraz

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    A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island as told by principal organizer, Adam Fortunate Eagle. The story unfolds through Fortunate Eagle's remembra...

    Taking Alcatraz
  • 2017
    Unfractured

    Unfractured (2017)

    Unfractured

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    Chanda Chevannes follows scientist Dr. Sandra Steingraber as she makes speeches against fracking and gets arrested protesting “the industrialization of the Finger Lakes.”...

    Unfractured
  • 2014
    Inside Fur

    Inside Fur (2014)

    Inside Fur

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    A group of highly motivated activists work for years with the goal of exposing the true face of the Nordic fur industry. They sneak into hundreds of fur farms. When their images are publicized it causes media feasts and public outrage, year after yea...

    Inside Fur
  • 1969
    Rita Semel: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

    Rita Semel: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012 (1969)

    Rita Semel: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

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    Rita Semel, interfaith pioneer and Jewish activist, is a recipient of the San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards "for her life-long successes in creating healthy, just, and inclusive communities in the Bay Area and worldwide. She builds...

    Rita Semel: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012
  • 2019
    Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019

    Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019 (2019)

    Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019

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    Joan Baez, the folk legend who was once Dylan’s lover, has called her final tour Fare Thee Well – perhaps because, like so many singers, she’s finding that goodbye is too hard a word....

    Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019
  • 2018
    Letter from Tokyo

    Letter from Tokyo (2018)

    Letter from Tokyo

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    Letter from Tokyo is a documentary film that looks at art, culture and politics in Tokyo, Japan. Shot over three months during the summer of 2018, and with a particular focus on grass roots arts initiatives, the use of public space, and queer politic...

    Letter from Tokyo
  • 1969
    Connection

    Connection (1969)

    Connection

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    This movie captures the motivations of an animal rights activist. Through his eyes, we explore the paradoxes in our society --- of being an animal lover and yet consuming some of them --- stemming from social conditioning and cognitive dissonance. Th...

    Connection
  • 2016
    Urmila - Für die Freiheit

    Urmila - Für die Freiheit (2016)

    Urmila - Für die Freiheit

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    The film tells the story of 25-year-old Urmila Chaudary from Nepal. At the age of six she was sold by her family and was forced to work as a slave under appalling conditions for 12 years. Her dream is to end child slavery in Nepal. To this end she fi...

    Urmila - Für die Freiheit