Freedom Movies

In an isolated community, a young indigenous woman fights for her freedom after enduring sexual assaults. Confronted with a life-altering decision,...

In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when the imposing...

True stories of the Croatian People's struggle to overcome oppression from communist Yugoslavia and the 1990's fight to save their war ravaged...

A young Venezuelan freedom fighter seeks asylum in the United States, but his heart remains in the fight back home.

A college professor, left alone by his wife for the weekend, discovers his new TV set is not only alive, but determined to take control of his entire...

These are strange times indeed. While they continue to command so much attention in the mainstream media, the 'battles' between old and new modes of...

Popeye, feeling sorry for the puppies in the window of Olive Oyl's pet shop, buys all the animals (mostly dogs) and sets them free. A parrot declines...

The main morality is the chronic desire for rest Within the historians, filmmakers, astronomers and the bread Which once was dough front to back ...

Don Letts's hilarious and colourful profile of the godfather of funk, whose 50-year career has defined the genre. From his 1950s days running a...

The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.

Into the Current tells the story of Burma's unsung heroes -its prisoners of conscience -and the price they pay for speaking truth to power in a...

A little man tries to save a bird that fell from its nest. A stop-motion adventure drawn and animated on paper.

Trapped and mistreated by her oppressive captor, Layla longs to escape and enjoy the freedom of the outside world. Will the mysterious woman in red...

The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an underground prison to await deportation. Will they...

After Phyllis discovers that her daughter Cecilia can read, she’s torn between abiding to her slave owner’s commands or encouraging her...

Told through the charismatic voice of inmate Kenneth Reams, Free Men is a film about human resilience. In solitary confinement for the last 25 years,...

A canary is frustrated by being caged. One day the kind old lady who owns him opens a nearby window, and also leaves the door to the cage open....

The very first images in the film set unprecedented standards in East German animated film: a Buñuelean eye that fills the entire screen,...

Released from prison, former oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky expounds on his newfound freedom and complex relationship with Vladimir Putin.