Riot Movies

A clean-cut synth artist in Germany hopes to turn his career around with the help of a washed-up, erratic, publicity-crazed American manager.

The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in...

They were called ‘the golden generation’, the young Yugoslavian soccer players who won the Junior World Soccer Championships in 1987 in...

Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.

Radical resistance in the postwar British Caribbean community, from the 1948 Nationality Act to the 1958 Brixton riots.

During a turning point in Indonesian history, a family must endure personal turmoil while their nation faces drastic political upheaval.

Magdalena and Michael have loved each other since they were children. But when the Nazis come to power, Michael rebels against the regime and is...

Throughout Hong Kong’s history, Hongkongers have fought for freedom and democracy but have yet to succeed. In 2019, a controversial extradition...

A crime boss tries to cause a riot and prison break while behind bars.

An innovative and charismatic influencer is suddenly exiled from her community of creative partners and colleagues when she states an opinion that...

Nineteen-year old Leon returns home to take care of his alcoholic mother and adjust to life as an adult after an adolescence spent in and out of...

HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the LA Riots, the most destructive riot in American...

In a country shaken by major political events, three generations of a Greek family clash over an inside-the-family adoption.

On August 1, 1942, a 22-year-old Mexican American man was stabbed to death at a party. To white Los Angelenos, the murder was just more proof that...

A young balladeer raised in the United States returns to Colombia to continue her career. Her plans do not align with her mother's, a famous singer...

A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural...

Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at...

Jan 6th, a violent attack against the US occurred at the Capitol. Five people died and 140+ injured. Before the dust had settled and with strict...

The small coastal town of Roquesas de Mar (village invented by the author) is shocked by the disappearance of one of her neighbors sixteen years of...