The Palestine Exception tells the story of the largest anti-war movement since the 1970s as students, faculty, and staff demand divestment from companies doing business with Israel and an end to the war in Gaza.
The Killing Floor: During World War I, impoverished African-American father Frank Custer (Damien Leake) leaves his Southern family and heads to Chicago in search of work. After landing a job at one of the city's many slaughterhouses, he gets caught up in the heated debate over organized labor.
A short film that delves into the life of a jornalero (day laborer) in Los Angeles.
Based on Andrew Feinstein’s book The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, Johan Grimonprez’s documentary Shadow World exposes the deep-rooted corruption, secrecy, and influence of the international arms industry.
Nawal (Lubna Azabal), a dying Middle Eastern woman living in Montreal, leaves separate letters to her twin children to be read once she passes away.
The Red Detachment of Women describes the birth, growth and maturing of a women's company of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army on Hainan Island during the Second Revolutionary Civil War (1927-1937)
In the late 60s, Dhofar rose up against the British-backed Sultanate of Oman, in a democratic, feminist guerrilla movement.
Join The People's Forum for a field trip to the Angelika Theater to see The
The Liberator charts the story of the revolutionary leader ,Simon Bolivar, and his impassioned fight for independence from Spain and creation of a united South American nation.
In this landmark collaboration between activist and actress Ruby Dee and director Jules Dassin, Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their own. Based on the 1935 classic "The Informer."
Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.
Set just before the 1905 Bolshevik Revolution, depicts a workers' strike against their oppressive factory bosses. When a worker is accused of stealing a piece of machinery, he commits suicide, and his fellow employees revolt against the Czarist regime controlling the factory. As the strike drags on and government officials grow more desperate to end it, their methods of dealing with the rebellious workers become brutal.
Russia | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 88 Min
