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97 Metascore. In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
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As massive protests against police violence sweep the nation and the world, we need only look at the great films of the past to see that none of this is unprecedented.
20 titles. 1. Andrei Rublev (1966) R | 205 min | Biography, Drama, History. 8.1. Rate. The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev. Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko, Nikolay Sergeev. Votes: 55,552 | Gross: $0.10M. 2. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
List of the best protest films selected by visitors to our site: The Hate U Give, Kings, Dumplin', Minamata, Skin, Battle in Seattle, Red State, Bhaagamathie, Wedding Wars, Talk to Me. In the top there are new films of 2020, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released. Best. By years. IMDB. The Hate U Give (2018)
- DO THE RIGHT THING (1989) Spike Lee’s Oscar-nominated masterpiece dramatizes how complicated racial tensions can ultimately lead to violence. Set on the hottest day of the year on a Brooklyn street, the film follows a pizza delivery man, Mookie (Lee), who works for an Italian-owned pizza place in the majority black neighborhood.
- BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1925) Best known for the iconic “Odessa Steps” sequence, “Battleship Potemkin” is a powerful epic dramatizing a mutiny on the titular ship in the port city of Odessa in 1905.
- THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1966) From 1954 to 1962 a group known as the Algerian Liberation Front fought against French colonial forces for Algerian independence.
- HARLAN COUNTY, USA (1976) Barbara Kopple’s Oscar-winner for Best Documentary covers the 1973 “Brookside Strike,” where miners in rural Kentucky protested low pay and poor conditions.
Jun 4, 2020 · “The Battle of Algiers,” directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, is arguably the most important movie ever made about guerilla warfare. Truthfully, it’s hard to imagine the filmography of Paul Greengrass , Ladj Ly’s recent protest drama “ Les Miserables ,” or really, half the films we’ve included in this piece without this picture’s ...
Jun 3, 2022 · Hollywood has been making films about protests for as long as the movie industry has existed and there are plenty of examples going back to the 1930s, but today, we'll focus on protest...
