Movies: Democracy

  • 2017
    A Taxi Driver

    A Taxi Driver (2017)

    A Taxi Driver

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    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 foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journali...

    A Taxi Driver
  • 2024
    Girls State

    Girls State (2024)

    Girls State

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    What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? In this documentary, young female leaders from wildly different backgrounds in Missouri navigate an immersive experiment to build a government from the ground up....

    Girls State
  • 2026
    Jana Nayagan

    Jana Nayagan (2026)

    Jana Nayagan

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    Jana Nayagan
  • 2017
    1987: When the Day Comes

    1987: When the Day Comes (2017)

    1987: When the Day Comes

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    In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed...

    1987: When the Day Comes
  • 2016
    The King's Choice

    The King's Choice (2016)

    The King's Choice

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    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 Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal family's escape and K...

    The King's Choice
  • 2012
    No

    No (2012)

    No

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    In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for t...

    No
  • 2013
    The Attorney

    The Attorney (2013)

    The Attorney

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    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 his life changes for good....

    The Attorney
  • 2020
    Resisterhood

    Resisterhood (2020)

    Resisterhood

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    Resisterhood is a film about the power of women, hope and resistance in modern American politics. After the 2016 elections, we follows six diverse Americans as they fight for social justice on the streets and in the halls of power....

    Resisterhood
  • 2016
    We The People 2.0

    We The People 2.0 (2016)

    We The People 2.0

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    American citizens who are normally marginalized, forgotten and left to fend against toxic dumps and other violations, come to understand that the only way to survive and save their communities is to challenge the system head-on....

    We The People 2.0
  • 1957
    The Teahouse of the August Moon

    The Teahouse of the August Moon (1957)

    The Teahouse of the August Moon

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

    The Teahouse of the August Moon
  • 1960
    Primary

    Primary (1960)

    Primary

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    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 light equipment in order to follow their subjects in a more intimate filmmaking style. This unconve...

    Primary
  • 2003
    The Corporation

    The Corporation (2003)

    The Corporation

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    Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological exam...

    The Corporation
  • 2015
    Requiem for the American Dream

    Requiem for the American Dream (2015)

    Requiem for the American Dream

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    Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality – tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of t...

    Requiem for the American Dream
  • 2019
    The Edge of Democracy

    The Edge of Democracy (2019)

    The Edge of Democracy

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    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 history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise...

    The Edge of Democracy
  • 2014
    Vão Livre

    Vão Livre (2014)

    Vão Livre

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    Vão Livre
  • 2013
    Lihis

    Lihis (2013)

    Lihis

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    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 Acacia. Her mother Cecilia was part of a fact-finding mission into a massacre, and Ada’s inquiries brin...

    Lihis
  • 2017
    Meeting Snowden

    Meeting Snowden (2017)

    Meeting Snowden

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    Moscow, Russia, December 2016. Edward Snowden, Larry Lessig and Birgitta Jónsdóttir meet for the first time in a secret place. Apparently, Russia is interfering in the US presidential elections while it mourns the death of its ambassador to Turkey. S...

    Meeting Snowden
  • 2017
    Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower

    Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower (2017)

    Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower

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    When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying thousands of kids to skip school and occupy the streets, Joshua becomes an unlikely leader in Hong Kong and o...

    Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
  • 2004
    The Take

    The Take (2004)

    The Take

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    In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed ceramics workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - the take - has the power to turn the global...

    The Take
  • 2011
    Putin's Kiss

    Putin's Kiss (2011)

    Putin's Kiss

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    Masha Drokova is a rising star in Russia's popular nationalistic youth movement, Nashi. A smart, ambitious teenager who – literally – embraced Vladimir Putin and his promise of a greater Russia, her dedication as an organizer is rewarded with a unive...

    Putin's Kiss