Political Documentary Movies

Fascists were the ultimate aura farmer. An aesthetic that was meant to hypnotize the public. Now we got ghibli-fied, shitposting clowns posing with...

The 1992 suicide of a young Iranian refugee in a small Canadian town prompted filmmaker Masoud Raouf to examine his own past as a political prisoner...

A public service announcement condemning the ominous obstacle of social parasitism and delinquency amongst wayward youth unwilling to contribute to...

The New Aesthetics of Fascism

How does one trigger a revolution? In the Romanian uprising in 1989, everything seemed to happen by itself. The people were fed up and were plagued...

Tracing the story of a student uprising this documentary explores how the NRA manages to keep a permissive gun law alive, and why it has such a...

A group of students aged between 18 to 25 shares their opinion on the first thing they want to change in their country if they get the power to do so.

In the swirling volcanic steam and misty rain forest of Kilauea volcano’s east rift zone on the island of Hawai’i, two forces meet head...

For years, right-wing politicians and pundits have repeatedly criticized the left for playing “the race card” and “the woman...

Mexico City was built on a lake, yet today it faces water scarcity. This film allows us to reflect on this contradiction. It also travels back in...

Behind the gas masks of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, the often very young activists are just as diverse as the youths of the rest of the...

The 2021 Duma elections made Mikhail Lobanov a recognizable Moscow politician. The 37-year-old mathematician, lecturer at the Moscow State...

During April 1994, on quiet road in Kigali a group of neighbors in Rwanda were filmed. This was the opening days of the Rwandan Genocide, and even...

In the past years, in France and in Germany, distrust between the people and law enforcement has been on the rise. For many citizens, the police has...

Building on testimony from pro-Palestinian activists in Berlin and featuring demonstration footage from between 2023 and 2025, this animated...

This documentary speaks to local activist groups in the music industry and culture scene to find out why people are driven to fight back and speak...

In Germany, left-wingers do not have to justify their views. They have established their opinions across the board, not among the people, but in the...