Revolution Movies

Nefertiti's Daughters is a story of women, art and revolution. Told by prominent Egyptian artists, this documentary witnesses the critical role...

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...

After the elections that followed the Tunisian revolution, as well as the violence that shook the country, an author seeks to make a film on women's...

Lebanon today. The traces of the civil war are all too tangible as government corruption becomes unbearable. In a country where conflict and peace...

In this short film directed in the style of Andrei Tarkovsky, eternity and the downfall of the Soviet empire are explored in a deeply symbolic and...

Year 1969 - in Turkey. 60s youth were living the most excited days. There was a great effort to make a bridge in Istanbul, on the Bosphorus....

Li Zizhou, a young revolutionary builds a secret network in northern Shaanxi to spread communist ideals and train future leaders. Despite facing...

"Love is Passing Moment, Art is Eternal." This is the title of one of the earliest cinema melodramas from Russia. As early as the year of the...

Three months of revolution. From indignant protest to national unity. From pots on their heads to batons and body armor. From the euphoria of victory...

Artists in exile make visible the solidarity with Chile in the wake of 11 September 1973: a celebration of colours and shapes in opposition to the...

This program illustrates how video activists have developed sophisticated use of small format video, with poetic and powerful imagery, complex mixes...

Lesson in History was produced when Peters was a student at the West Surrey School of Art and Design. Having read The People Could Fly by Virginia...

Hellenic State, 2079. The new goverment has prohibited every kind of emotional express. All subjects should wear masks to hide their emotions....

Whilst the first shots ring out between pro-Russian government forces and members of the opposition in the winter of 2013, young Nina leaves Crimea....

The documentary The Silent Revolution explains the revolution involving nearly 3 million kurds living in Syria. With the outbreak of the civil war...

Amid the tumult of the Arab Spring in Cairo, vendors in a small souk observe the political upheaval while seeking to preserve an ancient tradition of...

Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were...

Reflecting on his Father's experiences during the 1977 Egyptian Bread Riots - Documentarian, Nadim Fetaih discovers his own story in the Egyptian...

A young man plots the assassination of a half-pig, half-man politician.