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Escape from Pretoria(2020)

PG-13
| 1h 42min | Drama, History, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 533 votes)

South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.

Directed by Francis Annan - With Daniel Radcliffe, Tim Jenkin, Nathan Page, Mark Leonard Winter, Ian Hart, Daniel Webber, ...

The Trial of the Chicago 7(2020)

R
| 2h 10min | Drama, History
3.9/5 (with 1,311 votes)

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

Snake Eyes(1998)

R
| 1h 38min | Thriller, Crime, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 610 votes)

All bets are off when shady homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. It's up to him and lifelong friend, Naval intelligence agent Kevin Dunne to uncover the conspiracy behind the killing. At every turn, Santoro makes increasingly shocking discoveries that even he can't turn a blind eye to.

Bananas(1971)

PG-13
| 1h 22min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 306 votes)

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.

American Pastoral(2016)

R
| 1h 48min | Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 313 votes)

Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.

The Best of Youth(2003)

R
| 6h 6min | Drama, History, Romance / Love
4.0/5 (with 241 votes)

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lives of two brothers from a middle-class family take different directions, crossing some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.

Conversation Piece(1974)

3.7/5 (with 53 votes)

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.

Good Night, and Good Luck.(2005)

PG
| 1h 33min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 417 votes)

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

Nayak: The Real Hero(2001)

G
| 3h 7min | Drama, Thriller, Action
3.6/5 (with 37 votes)

TV reporter Shivajirao gets a chance to be the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for a day, after being challenged by incumbent Chief Minister Balraj Chauhan. After his successful one-day stint, he attempts to get back to his normal life, but it is not as easy as he thought it to be, with the lives of his near and dear ones now in danger on account of his honesty.

The Corporation(2003)

2h 25min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 112 votes)

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.

Porn to Be Free(2016)

1h 19min | Documentary, History
2.8/5 (with 37 votes)

Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking religious authorities and conservative political institutions. They are ironic, happy, crazy. They are dreamers, defenders of definitive communion between body and soul. But they were censored and humiliated. They were mistreated and arrested for demanding loud a new cultural renaissance.

Salvador (Puig Antich)(2006)

2h 17min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 26 votes)

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.

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Nothing Compares(2022)

NR
| 1h 37min | Documentary, Music
3.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Since the beginning of her career, Sinéad O’Connor has used her powerful voice to challenge the narratives she was surrounded by while growing up in predominantly Roman Catholic Ireland. Despite her agency, depth and perspective, O’Connor’s unflinching refusal to conform means that she has often been patronized and unfairly dismissed as an attention-seeking pop star.

Directed by Kathryn Ferguson

Lula, the Son of Brazil(2010)

2h 10min | Drama, History
2.8/5 (with 35 votes)

The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in Brazilian history.

The Yes Men(2003)

1h 20min | Comedy, Documentary
3.5/5 (with 39 votes)

A comic, biting and revelatory documentary following a small group of prankster activists as they gain worldwide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization (WTO) on television and at business conferences around the world.

Directed by Chris Smith

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975(2011)

1h 40min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 17 votes)

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.

Poster Boy(2004)

R
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

The gay son of a conservative senator who is also the poster boy for his father's re-election unknowingly befriends a gay activist bent on destroying the hypocritical campaign.

Directed by Zak Tucker - With Matt Newton, Karen Allen, Michael Lerner, Jack Noseworthy

Medium Cool(1969)

1h 51min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 29 votes)

John Cassellis is the toughest TV news reporter around. After extensively reporting about violence and racial tensions in poor communities, he discovers that his network is helping the FBI by granting them access to his footage to find suspects.

The State Against Mandela and the Others(2018)

3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country house near Johannesburg. The detainees, along with Nelson Mandela, imprisoned since 1962, are charged with serious crimes for their radical activism against the apartheid regime….

Directed by Gilles Porte, Nicolas Champeaux

Catalonia: Spain on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown(2017)

2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A serious crisis has shaken Spain since the referendum on self-determination and the proclamation of the independence of Catalonia by the government of Carles Puigdemont, bold actions firmly fought by the Spanish government by applying the constitutional article that allows it to place a region under guardianship. While Spain is on the verge of implosion, Europe is holding its breath.

To Die For(2022)

1h 40min | Drama
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Frustrated by the liberal left and what he deems the destruction of the country he risked his life for, reclusive veteran Quint North (Schneider) is ordered by the court to keep his distance from the local high school with the American flag on the back of his El Camino or face a fine and jail time. In an ultimate exhibition of patriotism, he sets forth a series of events that just may get him killed in his own front yard.

Peter Handke: In the Woods, Might Be Late(2016)

1h 29min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

In the sixties, Peter Handke was one of the first to show how the business works: the writer as angry young man and pop star of the literary scene. As soon as he was on the bestseller lists, he turned his back on the hype. For many years, he has lived and worked in his house in a Parisian suburb, more quietly and more hospitably. Peter Handke's precise, free gaze becomes perceptible in his texts, his conversations, the cosmos of his notebooks.

Directed by Corinna Belz

McLibel(2005)

1h 25min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 9 votes)

McLibel is a documentary film directed by Franny Armstrong for Spanner Films about the McLibel case. The film was first completed, as a 52 minute television version, in 1997, after the conclusion of the original McLibel trial. It was then re-edited to 85 minute feature length in 2005, after the McLibel defendants took their case to the European Court of Human Rights.

Danube(2021)

1h 2min | Documentary, History
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Argentina, 1968. In the midst of the Cold War, the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía (1966-70) organizes the 9th Mar del Plata Film Festival in order to show the world its friendly face, while exercising censorship and repressing dissidence.

America: Freedom to Fascism(2006)

1h 49min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

This is a documentary about an honest search for the truth about the Federal Reserve Bank and the legality of the Internal Revenue System. Through extensive interviews with recognised experts and authority, the director shows an astonishing revelation of how the Federal Government and the Bankers have fooled the American public by taking thier wages and putting it in the pockets of the super-rich.

Directed by Aaron Russo - With Katherine Albrecht, Joe Banister, Ron Paul, Irwin Schiff

Simón(2018)

26min | Drama

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

Poverty, Inc.(2014)

1h 34min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

Poverty, Inc. explores the hidden side of doing good. From disaster relief to TOMs Shoes, from adoptions to agricultural subsidies, Poverty, Inc. follows the butterfly effect of our most well-intentioned efforts and pulls back the curtain on the poverty industrial complex - the multi-billion dollar market of NGOs, multilateral agencies, and for-profit aid contractors. Are we catalyzing development or are we propagating a system in which the poor stay poor while the rich get hipper?

Directed by Michael Matheson Miller

A Night of Knowing Nothing(2022)

1h 30min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

L, a university student in India, writes letters to her estranged lover, while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds.

Directed by Payal Kapadia

Then Barbara Met Alan(2022)

1h 7min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

The untold disability civil-rights love story of two cabaret performers, Barbara and Alan, who met at a gig, fell in love, and became the driving force behind an unprecedented campaign of direct action that ultimately led to the passing of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act.

Babi!(2019)

48min | Drama

A political drama about a scandal-ridden politician who is thrown out of office in a landmark election and finds himself facing corruption charges and unable to flee to exile. He decides to quit politics and seek redemption with his family and the public.

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