Activism Movies

Activist James Richards is an icon of the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood. For 80 years, he has fought steadfastly to provide his community with...

The San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards presents John Santos, musician and cultural activist, with the Helen Crocker Russell Award...

The story of the ancient and sacred Gureombi Rock. The story of the people of Gangjeong Village who rise up against the construction of a US/Korea...

KoRapted explores how underground hip-hop artists transformed a mass protest against alleged flood control corruption into a cultural movement, using...

Tucked at the edge of Metro Manila, a 67-year-old fisherman continues to resist and struggle against ongoing reclamation projects at the heart of...

After Coal profiles inspiring individuals who are building a new future in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky and South Wales. Meet ex-miners using...

The activist group Empty Cages (Tomma Burar) practices civil disobedience. They carry out well-planed actions against industrial animal husbandry and...

Linda and Kenya narrate their testimony about being women and living with HIV in a time where stigma, negligence and androcentricity force them to...

Humanity on Trial follows humanitarian Salam Aldeen as he is accused of human smuggling by the Hellenic Coast Guard.

A Litany for Survival' explores the shades between love, rage, and rebellion as a black person surviving in America. Two months before the shocking...

The San Francisco Foundation 2013 Community Leadership Awards presents Nancy Hom with the Helen Crocker Russell Award, made to an under-recognized,...

La Badil (No Other Choice), was filmed undercover in the Moroccan controlled territories of Western Sahara, on the eve of the second anniversary of...

National Center for Lesbian Rights, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership Awards (the John R. May Award), for its...

Plantation Tragedy presents a surreal dreamscape where trees, labourers, scientists and artificial intelligence confront one another in a shared...

Part personal film, part call to action, Trespass! looks into the land workers and activists fighting for the universal right to access land. Through...

In a society on the brink of collapse due to climate change, a woman grapples with the psychological effects of an unnatural existence. Cut off from...

Planting Earth Week follows a radical climate activist who tells the story of a splitting decentralized movement that made headlines in 2019.

Documentary about Aminatou Haidar and her fight for the Sahrawi rights