Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "political-activism"

1. In Time (2011)

PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. Will Salas is accused of murder and on the run with a hostage.

Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde

Votes: 446,159 | Gross: $37.52M

2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Family

With their warning about Lord Voldemort's return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts.

Director: David Yates | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Brendan Gleeson

Votes: 633,046 | Gross: $292.00M

3. The Way We Were (1973)

PG | 118 min | Drama, Romance

During post-WWII McCarthyism, a diametrically opposed couple come together only to find out that genuine friendship and physical attraction is not enough to overcome fundamental societal beliefs.

Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles

Votes: 27,468

4. Gandhi (1982)

PG | 191 min | Biography, Drama, History

The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.

Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth

Votes: 240,176 | Gross: $52.77M

5. Escape from Pretoria (2020)

PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Mystery

Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa.

Director: Francis Annan | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter

Votes: 43,522

6. Hair (1979)

PG | 121 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Claude Bukowski leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly embraced into the hippie group of youngsters led by Berger, yet he's already been drafted. He soon falls in love with Sheila Franklin, a rich girl but still a rebel inside.

Director: Milos Forman | Stars: John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Annie Golden

Votes: 40,863 | Gross: $15.28M

7. Maude (1972–1978)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

"All In The Family" spin-off centered around Edith's cousin, Maude Findlay, a liberal, independent woman living in Tuckahoe, New York.

Stars: Bea Arthur, Bill Macy, Conrad Bain, Adrienne Barbeau

Votes: 4,700

8. Good Bye Lenin! (2003)

R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.

Director: Wolfgang Becker | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, Florian Lukas

Votes: 152,616 | Gross: $4.06M

9. Reds (1981)

PG | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History

A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.

Director: Warren Beatty | Stars: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski

Votes: 24,712 | Gross: $40.38M

10. Running on Empty (1988)

PG-13 | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Music

The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live his own life.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: River Phoenix, Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, Jonas Abry

Votes: 17,907 | Gross: $2.84M

11. Bowling for Columbine (2002)

R | 120 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama

Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.

Director: Michael Moore | Stars: Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson, Salvador Allende

Votes: 148,719 | Gross: $21.58M

12. The China Syndrome (1979)

PG | 122 min | Drama, Thriller

A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.

Director: James Bridges | Stars: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady

Votes: 33,020 | Gross: $51.72M

13. The Company You Keep (2012)

R | 125 min | Drama, Thriller

After a journalist discovers his identity, a former Weather Underground activist goes on the run.

Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Robert Redford, Brit Marling, Stanley Tucci, Nick Nolte

Votes: 34,977 | Gross: $5.13M

14. The Best of Youth (2003)

R | 374 min | Drama, Romance

An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Adriana Asti

Votes: 23,200 | Gross: $0.27M

15. The Candidate (1972)

PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama

Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.

Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas, Don Porter

Votes: 11,918 | Gross: $0.12M

16. Fast Food Nation (2006)

R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama

An examination of the health risks involved in the fast food industry as well as its environmental and social consequences.

Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Bruce Willis, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Wilmer Valderrama

Votes: 25,145 | Gross: $1.00M

17. Woodstock (1970)

R | 184 min | Documentary, History, Music

Oscar-winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three-day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties.

Director: Michael Wadleigh | Stars: Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Roger Daltrey, Joe Cocker

Votes: 18,458 | Gross: $50.00M

18. Medium Cool (1969)

R | 111 min | Drama

A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Director: Haskell Wexler | Stars: Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill

Votes: 4,712 | Gross: $1.48M

19. Citizen Ruth (1996)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama

An irresponsible, drug-addicted, recently impregnated woman finds herself in the middle of an abortion debate when both parties attempt to sway her to their respective sides.

Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz, Mary Kay Place, Kurtwood Smith

Votes: 9,114 | Gross: $0.15M

20. A World Apart (1988)

PG | 113 min | Drama

1963. Thirteen year old Molly Roth, the eldest of three offspring of Gus and Diana Roth, lives a carefree life as part of the affluent white minority in South Africa. Race is a non-issue ... See full summary »

Director: Chris Menges | Stars: Barbara Hershey, David Suchet, Jodhi May, Jeroen Krabbé

Votes: 1,800 | Gross: $2.33M

21. Peterloo (2018)

PG-13 | 154 min | Drama, History

The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in which British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.

Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Neil Bell, Philip Jackson

Votes: 5,459 | Gross: $0.15M

22. Che: Part Two (2008)

Not Rated | 135 min | Biography, Drama, History

In 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia, South America.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Demián Bichir, Rodrigo Santoro, Benicio Del Toro, Catalina Sandino Moreno

Votes: 35,046

23. No (I) (2012)

R | 118 min | Drama, History

An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.

Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco

Votes: 26,213 | Gross: $2.34M

24. Battle in Seattle (2007)

R | 98 min | Action, Drama, History

Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings.

Director: Stuart Townsend | Stars: André 3000, Jennifer Carpenter, Isaach De Bankolé, Woody Harrelson

Votes: 15,172 | Gross: $0.22M

25. The Corporation (2003)

Not Rated | 145 min | Documentary, History

Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.

Directors: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott | Stars: Mikela Jay, Rob Beckwermert, Christopher Gora, Nina Jones

Votes: 21,782 | Gross: $1.88M

26. Punishment Park (1971)

R | 91 min | Drama, Thriller

"Punishment Park" is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman, Carmen Argenziano, Luke Johnson

Votes: 7,625

27. In the Time of the Butterflies (2001 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government.

Director: Mariano Barroso | Stars: Salma Hayek, Lumi Cavazos, Edward James Olmos, Mía Maestro

Votes: 2,485

28. Romero (1989)

PG-13 | 102 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.

Director: John Duigan | Stars: Raul Julia, Richard Jordan, Ana Alicia, Eddie Velez

Votes: 2,448 | Gross: $1.32M

29. Something in the Air (2012)

Not Rated | 122 min | Drama

In the months after the heady weeks of May '68, a group of young Europeans search for a way to continue the revolution believed to be just beginning.

Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Clément Métayer, André Marcon, Lola Créton, Felix Armand

Votes: 4,708 | Gross: $0.07M

30. Lakshya (2004)

Not Rated | 186 min | Action, Drama, Romance

An aimless, jobless, irresponsible grown man joins the army and matures into a battlefield hero.

Director: Farhan Akhtar | Stars: Hrithik Roshan, Preity G Zinta, Amitabh Bachchan, Om Puri

Votes: 25,540 | Gross: $0.75M

31. Three Families (2021– )

118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Dramatisation of three real-life stories of how three families were each affected by Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion law before it was lifted in 2019.

Stars: Sinéad Keenan, Lola Petticrew, Amy James-Kelly, Colin Morgan

Votes: 726

32. Rude Awakening (1989)

R | 100 min | Comedy

In the 1960s, two hippies go off into the jungle to evade the FBI. When they come back to New York in the 1980s, their fellow hippie friends have become rich yuppies.

Directors: David Greenwalt, Aaron Russo | Stars: Cheech Marin, Eric Roberts, Julie Hagerty, Robert Carradine

Votes: 1,478 | Gross: $3.17M

33. Mary and Martha (2013 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 95 min | Drama

Two mothers lose their sons to malaria.

Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Hilary Swank, Brenda Blethyn, Sam Claflin, Frank Grillo

Votes: 3,614

34. The String (2009)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance

Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have ... See full summary »

Director: Mehdi Ben Attia | Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Antonin Stahly Viswanadhan, Salim Kechiouche, Driss Ramdi

Votes: 2,221

35. And Tomorrow the Entire World (2020)

TV-MA | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

How far one is willing to go for the sake of one's political commitment.

Director: Julia von Heinz | Stars: Mala Emde, Noah Saavedra, Tonio Schneider, Andreas Lust

Votes: 3,624

36. Galar

Short, Drama | Post-production

In rural Ireland, a determined father watches helplessly as his home crumbles due to defective blocks. Committed to safeguarding his family's wellbeing, he confronts neglect head-on whilst grappling with an unseen illness.

Director: Niall Duffy | Stars: Mark Loughran, Claire Rafferty, Ashana Cummings, Nigel O'Neill

37. Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (2018–2020)

TV-MA | 25 min | Comedy, News, Talk-Show

In this weekly show, the former Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj brings his unique comedic voice and storytelling skill to explore the larger grim trends shaping our fragmented world.

Stars: Hasan Minhaj, Joyelle Johnson, Arnab Goswami, Andrew Yang

Votes: 7,929

38. Taking Chances (2009)

R | 99 min | Comedy

A troubled town is having an Indian casino built on a historic battlefield. Chase, working at the town museum, opposes it. He meets the cute Lucy. They start a petition against the casino.

Director: Talmage Cooley | Stars: Justin Long, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Rob Corddry, Keir O'Donnell

Votes: 1,449

39. Requiem for the American Dream (2015)

Not Rated | 73 min | Documentary, Biography, News

Renowned academic and author Noam Chomsky elucidates 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power that have led to unprecedented inequality and the hollowing out of the American middle class.

Directors: Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott | Stars: Noam Chomsky, Alan Greenspan, Malcolm X, Richard Nixon

Votes: 9,883 | Gross: $0.13M

40. Capitol Critters (1992–1995)

TV-PG | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The adventures of the rodent and insect inhabitants inside the walls of the White House.

Stars: Neil Patrick Harris, Charlie Adler, Patti Deutsch, Bobcat Goldthwait

Votes: 281

41. Lumumba (2000)

Not Rated | 115 min | Biography, Drama, History

The true story of controversial leader of independent Congo Patrice Lumumba.

Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto

Votes: 2,082 | Gross: $0.68M

42. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)

PG | 98 min | Documentary

A decade after An Inconvenient Truth (2006) brought climate change to the heart of popular culture, the follow-up shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution.

Directors: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk | Stars: Al Gore, Cory Booker, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton

Votes: 8,353 | Gross: $3.50M

43. How to Survive a Plague (2012)

Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary, History, News

The story of two coalitions -- ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) -- whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.

Director: David France | Stars: Peter Staley, Larry Kramer, Iris Long, Bob Rafsky

Votes: 4,355 | Gross: $0.13M

44. Outside the Law (2010)

R | 138 min | Crime, Drama, War

A drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII.

Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Chafia Boudraa

Votes: 4,117

45. Prohibition (2011)

60 min | Documentary, History

The story of the American activist struggle against the influence of alcohol, climaxing in the failed early 20th century nationwide era when it was banned.

Stars: Peter Coyote, Pete Hamill, Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Michael Lerner

Votes: 3,423

46. Král Sumavy: Fantom temného kraje (2022– )

Drama

It is the spring of 1948. Twenty-four-year-old cook Josef Hasil serves in the kitchen of the National Security Corps in Zvonková. Wild boy. He had already experienced the war in a German labor camp and as a link between partisans.

Stars: Oskar Hes, Gabriela Heclová, Kristyna Ryska, Vojtech Vodochodský

Votes: 45

47. Guerrilla (2017)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama

A pair of activists in 1970s London set out to free a political prisoner and wage a resistance movement.

Stars: Babou Ceesay, Nathaniel Martello-White, Daniel Mays, Denise Gough

Votes: 1,213

48. All Three of Us (2015)

102 min | Comedy, Drama

An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.

Director: Kheiron | Stars: Kheiron, Leïla Bekhti, Gérard Darmon, Zabou Breitman

Votes: 2,680

49. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)

PG | 110 min | Drama

A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in 1970, when the World Cup coincides with political crackdowns by the military dictatorship.

Director: Cao Hamburger | Stars: Michel Joelsas, Germano Haiut, Daniela Piepszyk, Paulo Autran

Votes: 6,656 | Gross: $0.76M

50. The Yes Men (2003)

R | 83 min | Documentary, Comedy

Anti-corporate activists travel from conference to conference, impersonating member of the World Trade Organization.

Directors: Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, Chris Smith | Stars: Andreas Bichlbauer, Mike Bonanno, Andy Bichlbaum, Michael Moore

Votes: 6,177 | Gross: $0.20M