Alla fine degli anni Sessanta a Cinisi, un piccolo paese siciliano, la mafia domina e controlla la vita quotidiana oltre agli appalti per l'aeroporto di Punta Raisi e il traffico della droga. Il giovane Peppino Impastato entra nel vortice della contestazione piegandola, con originalità, alle esigenze locali. Apre una piccola radio dalla quale fustiga con l'arma dell'ironia i potenti locali fra i quali Zio Tano (Badalamenti). Peppino verrà massacrato facendo passare la sua morte per un suicidio.
Uganda has one the youngest populations in the world and one of its most flagrantly anti-democratic governments. These are ingredients for revolution, and Bobi Wine and his wife Barbie Kyagulanyi are stirring the pot. When the charismatic Bobi, a musician and member of parliament, announces his campaign for president, Uganda’s youth are ecstatic, filling parks and streets for every speech, and singing Bobi’s anthems of peace and freedom. But then comes the crackdown, orchestrated by Yoweri Museveni, a brutal dictator who has ruled Uganda for 36 years. Bobi and his crew survive arrests, beatings, torture, riots and raids.
Il 25 novembre 1970 un uomo si suicida all'interno del quartier generale del ministero della Difesa giapponese, pugnalandosi allo stomaco, come prevede il codice dei samurai. A immolarsi è il romanziere Yukio Mishima, uno degli intellettuali più conosciuti e apprezzati del Giappone. Attivista di destra e seguace dell'ideologia tradizionale nipponica, Mishima aveva creato un suo personale esercito, il Tatenokai, arruolando i membri tra le fila del movimento studentesco conservatore. E con quattro fedelissimi allievi si era barricato all'interno dell'edificio ministeriale, chiedendo ai militari di supportare la sua lotta per restaurare la società imperiale. "Con questo film ho voluto spostare la mia attenzione su un aspetto degli anni Sessanta diametralmente opposto a quello esplorato in United Red Army. Sia Mishima sia i radicali di sinistra combattevano per migliorare il Giappone; il tempo ci ha mostrato come nella nostra società nulla sia cambiato". [Koji Wakamatsu]
William Francome is a fairly typical, white middle-class guy. Typical except for the fact that he is about to embark on a journey into the dark heart of the American judicial system; the tangled world of renowned Death Row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in US society from 1967 to 1975. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists in the United States during that period and includes the appearances of Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and other activists, artists, and leaders central to the movement.
A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
Tracy Chambers, ragazza di Chicago, lavora come segretaria, ma la sua aspirazione è di affermarsi come figurinista. Quando, perciò, un fotografo di moda, Sean, la chiama a Roma per impiegarla come "mannequin", Tracy lascia l'uomo che ama - un politico, Brian Walker, che si batte per migliorare le condizioni della gente di colore - e raggiunge la capitale italiana. Qui conquista finalmente il successo, dapprima come fotomodella e, poi, grazie all'interessato aiuto di un maturo industriale, anche come creatrice di moda. Ma il suo cuore è in America; dopo un ultimo, trionfale "defilée", Tracy abbandona tutto e torna a Chicago, per schierarsi accanto a Brian.
Gloria Allred overcame trauma and personal setbacks to become one of the nation’s most famous women’s rights attorneys. Now the feminist firebrand takes on two of the biggest adversaries of her career, Bill Cosby and Donald Trump, as sexual violence allegations grip the nation and keep her in the spotlight.
An actress of political torture movies made by her husband has to finish his latest film and arrange a screening for distributors while the husband, who is also secretly an anarchist revolutionary, is away for some resistance operation.
The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.
Ka'iulani, a 19th-century Hawaiian princess, is raised in England but determined to maintain her people's independence from aggressive American businessmen. After being sent to England as a child by her Scottish father, Ka'iulani returns to Hawaii and becomes a political activist who fights to retain her throne, even though she must leave her English paramour.
A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), a dissident, a woodpecker who tirelessly pecked the putrid brain of the Communist regime for decades, demanding democracy loudly and fearlessly. Silenced, arrested, convicted, imprisoned, dead. Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2010, alive forever. These are his last words.
An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims that he will help free him.
In a country subjected to a cruel dictatorship, a political activist is savagely tortured, unleashing the indignation of certain leftist intellectuals.
Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.
The Grammy-winning lead singer of System of a Down, Serj Tankian helps to awaken a political revolution on the other side of the world, inspiring Armenia's struggle for democracy through his music and message.
This BBC documentary chronicles the life of folk/soft-rock singer John Denver through his rise with The Chad Mitchell Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary, his subsequent stardom, his popularity decline, and his tragic death at age 53.
This communist and parliamentarian leader was arrested and tortured, and became famous for having written the "Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla". Greatest name of the left-wing militancy in Brazil in the 1960s, Carlos Marighella acted in the main political events of Brazil between the 1930s and 1969 and was considered enemy number one of the Brazilian military dictatorship. His life was a great act of resistance and courage.