Student Protest Movies

A womanising violinist and jewel thief must abandon his carefree lifestyle when he learns that his younger brother is part of the leftist...

In 1969, the Renovación Universitaria movement and the subsequent raid on the Central University of Venezuela by the government of Rafael...

A journalist preparing a story on extremist youth falls in love with a young radical who fears being killed by his companions when he is unable to...

"A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to effect real change. Emboldened to pursue more...

When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying...

Teenage problems intertwine during the occupation of a high school in Rome. Silvio—much like his peers desperate to lose his...

The film chronicles the beginning of the student protest following the death of student Benno Ohnesorg in Berlin in June of 1967.

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front...

Set in the near future, a student accidentally discovers old photographs of the same stretch of beach taken by school students over the past 65...

Five bourgeois and pseudo-Maoist roommates, studying in Rome, decide to take an active part in the social movements of 1968, eager to play...

After the failed Umbrella Revolution in 2014, lives go back to normal, but the scenes of the great protest are like yesterday for Billy and Popsy,...

This is the first referendum held in Hong Kong and probably the last. Some people want to grasp the chance to directly participate in the democratic...

A student is held up in the library while a riot rages outside. As SDS protesters head to burn the library down, he has to fend them off with his...

Based on Yılmaz Güney's script and filmed in semi-documentary style, the movie provides a fresh perspective on the history of labor issues...

The film is about a protest provoked when the university decided to restrict access to sports facilities to athletes, cutting out all other students....

The film speaks of student demonstrations in Belgrade, 1969 and of the critical quality, enthusiasm and discipline of this form of protest. It was...

An analysis of the social upheaval of May 1968, made in the immediate wake of the workers’ and students’ protests. The picture consists...

Amidst the 1960 Japanese-American mutual security treaty, alienated young nihilist Takuya struggles to find his footing between his do-nothing wealth...

In the summer of revolt 1968, student Leobardo López Aretche captured the protests in Mexico City, and the state’s brutal response, up...