Resistance Movies

1989, New York City's Alphabet City and East Village. A year after the Tompkins Square Park Riot, squatters and their community allies try to stop...

Seven militant women (fedaiyat) of the revolutionary generation tell the story of the Palestinian resistance through accounts of their own lives. ...

In the summer of 1961, a group of young Italian anthropologists made a clandestine journey through Spain, in order to record popular songs that...

"Subversivas" is a documentary that reveals the brazilian military dictatorship from the perspective of women. Teresa Angelo, Gilse Cosenza, Thereza...

An elderly man tells his granddaughter his personal story of the Second World War. His life as a child and all the strange characters he populates it...

Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) provides trained agents, arms and other assistance to the European resistance groups fighting against...

Set in the 1800s among the Berbers of North Africa, this 1997 Algerian feature concerns a noble widow who receives a customary purse of gold coins...

In the middle of a revolution, two young workers try to claim their existences…

This program investigates the ways various art forms are used to sway minds and to argue political causes. Examples include Napoleon and Hitler;...

A key overview of twentieth-century American fascism and antifascism produced in 1991 by the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee.

With no Forest left to hunt and no land to cultivate, the Maby-Guarani depend on the sale of their handcraft to survive. Three young Guarani...

The documentary mixes reenactments with true accounts from four characters/actors who tell the stories of six black gay men, their experiences and...

In 2018 Lebanon, a young Palestinian man goes to school wearing a keffiyeh to revolute against the USA declaration of Jerusalem becoming the capital...

When France rumbles, the strategy and control of public order become a crucial political issue. Between protecting institutions and guaranteeing the...

"Letters from Europe" brings to light the words of men and women who gave their lives resisting the Nazi and fascist conquest from 1939 to '45 across...

Akin Ang Buhok Ko follows the story of Juan, a 9-year-old kid, who simply wants to keep his long hair against the wishes of the adults around him....

People of a Darker Hue, 2016 Video, 14 minutes, 58 seconds © Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.