Democracy Movies

A clash of ideologies. One stands for the people, the other feeds on control. Their paths collided once before. Years later, a child’s silent...

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...

Set during the volatile final months of Indonesia's New Order regime, the narrative chronicles a young student activist's perilous commitment to...

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

In 1987 Korea under an oppressive military regime, the unlawful interrogation and death of a college student ignite ordinary citizens to fight for...

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...

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...

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to...

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

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

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

After the 9/11 attacks, after the smoke was gone, after the rubble cleared away, New Yorkers had a city to rebuild. In response to fast-tracked...

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

When Israel is hijacked from within by extremist political forces, a group of citizens transform overnight into protest leaders. They embark on an...

In 2017, twenty years after the British handed over Hong Kong to China in 1997, young people, more politicized than any previous generation and proud...

This iconic statue was a gift from France to the new-born American Republic and was the first crowd-funded monument of all time. A symbol of...

Thoughts of a diversity of public and private citizens on the virtues of democracy, its faults, its decadence, its fall and the rise of populism.

A documentary that chronicles the life of South African leader Nelson Mandela. Mandela is probably best known for his 27 years of imprisonment, and...

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