I teach a class on film and politics and include docs that offer insight into protest movements and the challenges they face. Some recommendations: Eyes on the Prize: Canonical series on civil rights movement. Shows how ordinary people created extraordinary change. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGVL...

How to Survive a Plague: Remarkable insider footage of ACT-UP fighting for AIDS research and dignity for people with AIDS. Proof highly stigmatized communities can win against bigotry and institutional neglect. youtu.be/haEPLCA_H2Y?...

Crip Camp (Netflix): Moving, wry and insightful window into the origins of the disability rights movement. From a humble summer camp to changing law and culture around the world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRrI...

Deaf President Now! (Just released on AppleTV+): The 1988 Gallaudet University protests offer gripping window into origins of the Deaf and disability rights movement. Students challenge more than a century of bias and show how collective action can make a difference. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-gI...

LA ’92: An almost operatic braiding together of raw civilian and news footage from 1992 uprising. Allows one to witness history unfold as if in real time. Helps illuminate present moment in context of Watts in 1965 and LA in 1992. Full documentary free on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaot...

Free Angela and All Political Prisoners: Follow Angela Davis’s fight for justice from UCLA professor to fugitive to icon. Rich with present-day issues: academic freedom, gun rights, militant factions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWo9...

Oklahoma City & Documenting Hate: Visual companions to @kathleenbelew.bsky.social’s Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. From 1995 bombing to today’s threats, help show how white power is not “lone wolves” but a movement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcJ7...

Documenting Hate: New American Nazis. Amazing reporting by FRONTLINE/ProPublica on white supremacist rally and Charlottesville's failed law enforcement response. Full documentary on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XFB...

Free Chol Soo Lee: The moving and immersive story of a Korean immigrant sentenced to life for a 1973 San Francisco murder and the remarkable pan-Asian solidarity movement that fought to overturn his conviction. One of the most popular among students this year. www.pbs.org/video/free-c...

Burning Bush: For a moving portrait of past Soviet invasions, life under authoritarian rule and the 1968 student movements that challenged the occupation, I highly recommend this three part series directed by Agnieszka Holland. See the international trailer: youtu.be/UWeSsR6M9tE?...