Giz_Medium's Watchlist

A drama of the Indians of tropical Mexico in the early 20th century, 'The Rebellion of the Hanged' is the intense story of the rise of the oppressed pawns and their struggle to achieve freedom and independence.

Resistance against the sell-out of the city of Berlin

Three girls from a small town win a trip to Monte Carlo. The trip was sponsored by their local newspaper, which sends along its ace reporter Bancroft as their "chaperone". Tony Townsend, an American on the lam from the police in Monte Carlo for skipping out on his hotel bills, registers at the same hotel where the girls are staying, and accidentally runs into one of them, Sally. To impress Sally he "borrows" the uniform of a prince who's staying in the next suite, and soon is mistaken by everyone for him. Unbeknownst to Tony, however, a gang of anarchists from the real prince's country are in town to assassinate him. Complications ensue.

In a dystopian, post apocalyptic Britain, a young punk discovers true rebellion when she meets a radical old dandy.

"Saints and Angels" is a compelling fictional account of an Animal Liberation cell that has been organized for one evening in order to free animals from the daily tortures of experimentation and other forms of cruelty. Actual interviews and animal liberation footage make this a great introduction to the ALF and the entire movement in general.

Set in the trenches of America's resurgent protest movement, Exist captures the essence of personal relationships in the midst of turmoil, and explores how far people will go to be heard. Top couldn't have cared less about the causes that had Jake and their fellow squatters marching in the streets. He thought protest was for the privileged, not for those fighting to survive. Jake knew that joining the protest movement would mean struggle. But when he left Harvard for political activism, he never anticipated charges of murder and a life on the run. When the lights went out and the cops charged in, Top's instinct was to run. Jake's was to fight. After that night their lives would never be the same.

Wrenched reveals how Edward Abbey's anarchistic spirit and riotous novels influenced and helped guide the nascent environmental movement of the seventies and eighties. Through interviews, archival footage and reenactments, this documentary captures the outrage of Abbey's friends who were the original ecowarriors. In defense of wilderness, these early activists pioneered monkeywrenching, a radical blueprint for wrenching the system.

The story of the very independent cinema told through the eyes of two friends on the verge of entering the real world.

1984 was not a leap into the future-but a look at the dangers already present-in Orwell's lifetime. The Road to 1984 intertwines vision and reality. It displays the passion and chronicles the career of Orwell--who warned us of what could happen if we stayed on that road--his road to 1948 and ours to 1984.

Thyra arrives in Chekia to wed its old and ugly king. The Duke falls in love with her. A revolution erupts and the king is assassinated. Chief revolutionary Gigberto also falls in love with Thyra. The revolutionaries plan to drown Thyra and Gigberto in a boat, but the Duke takes Gigberto's place. And the loving couple are rescued.

A radical film that is at once a scathing questioning of cinema, a fierce attack against ideological sclerosis, an obvious model of total science fiction.

Thomas meets Malvina in the Pyrenees, he kidnaps her and the two young misfits get married. Thomas is violent and Malvina is submissive, they lead a marginal life and are locked up in a mental asylum, where all attempts to help them are rejected. Suddenly, the intervention of an advertising agent changes their lives completely.

13, a ludodrama on Walter Benjamin' is a documentary essay on the German philosopher Walter Benjamin. Divided into 13 small chapters, the film tells the stories of Benjamin's exile in Paris between 1933 and 1940.

Halee (Nezbahe Williams) is a 16 year old Diné relocation refugee who uses poetry to escape from her painful past and present.

About an anarchist/individualist newspaper founded in April 1905 by Albert Libertad. The companions grouped around Libertad - Mahe, Duflore, André Lorulot, Emilie Lamotte, Mauricius - fought vices, habits and prejudices, tobacco and alcohol, the carrion cult and conformism resigned to the one who votes, goes to the barracks, gets married and work on.

The three days power vacuum in a Sicilian village shortly after the American landing in Sicily in July 1943.