Student Protest Movies

What remains of the 2012 Quebec student protests? Little has changed in the decade that ensued. Rodrigue Jean and Arnaud Valade exhume images of the...

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...

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

Situated on 1960’s student protests in Mexico City, uncomprehended and rebel, Lucía, must decide wether to stay home or leave her...

Students seeking greater control over the hiring of faculty occupy the offices of the Political Science Department at McGill University. The film...

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

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

A middle school teacher's life is thrown into turmoil when dozens of students dye their hair gold and his girlfriend suddenly proposes marriage,...

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

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

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

In the 1990s' Allahabad, a brash college student gets drawn into an uproar surrounding a critical bill that will affect India's education system.

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...

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

Andrea Pomeraro, a history teacher, has an affair with a student who then blackmails him. Attempting to retrieve the incriminating photos, he...

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

Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source...

Students from nine nations unite on August 7, 1950 at the Franco-German border near Germanshof, tear down the barriers and remove the border posts...

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