Democracy Movies

May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreig...

Song Woo-seok is a lawyer with no clients. When his friend's son is falsely accused of a crime and tortured, he takes up the case and the course of hi...

On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choic...

In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of offic...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant e...

A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian hist...

In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will...

Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented in...

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use...

Once upon a time, the Venezuelan village of Congo Mirador was prosperous, alive with fisherman and poets. Now it is decaying and disintegrating—a smal...

In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.

What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? In this documentary, young female leaders from wildly different backgrounds in...

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

Examines the implications of Christian Nationalism, how it distorts not only our constitutional republic, but Christianity itself, and asks the questi...

A road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America while...

Masha Drokova is a rising star in Russia's popular nationalistic youth movement, Nashi. A smart, ambitious teenager who – literally – embraced Vladimi...

A director feels he is about to lose himself to the market forces and thinks that the only way he can protest is by making a political film. He contac...

In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed ceramics workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want i...

The film splits itself between two timelines. In 2006, Ada is basing her thesis on a massacre that occurred twenty years prior in a village called Aca...