Films about activists

2007 film directed by David Yates

1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick

2000 film directed by Steven Soderbergh

1989 film directed by Oliver Stone

2013 film directed by Bill Condon

2014 film directed by Ava DuVernay

Silkwood is a 1983 American biographical drama film directed by Mike Nichols, and starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, and Cher. The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was adapted from the book Who Killed Karen Silkwood? by Rolling Stone writer and activist Howard Kohn, which detailed the life of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear whistle-blower and a labor union activist who investigated alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked. In real life, her death in a car crash gave rise to a 1979 lawsuit, Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee, led by attorney Gerry Spence. The jury rendered

2003 film by Alan Parker

2007 film directed by Richard LaGravenese

2020 film directed by Aaron Sorkin

2017 film by Robin Campillo

1979 film by Martin Ritt

1987 British drama film directed by Richard Attenborough

2014 film directed by Matthew Warchus

2015 film directed by Sarah Gavron

1971 film by Giuliano Montaldo

2009 film by Louie Psihoyos

2018 film directed by George Tillman, Jr.

2018 film by Mimi Leder

1984 film by Rob Epstein

1996 film by Rob Reiner

A bed-in is a nonviolent protest against wars, initiated by Yoko Ono and her husband John Lennon during a two week period in Amsterdam and Montreal as an experimental test of new ways to promote peace. As the Vietnam War raged in 1969, artists Ono and Lennon held one bed-in protest at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam and one at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. The idea is derived from a "sit-in", in which a group of protesters remain seated in front of or within an establishment until they are evicted, arrested, or their requests are met.

2004 television film directed by Katja von Garnier

2022 film by Chinonye Chukwu

2015 film by Davis Guggenheim

2020 documentary film directed by Nathan Grossman

1970 film by Stuart Hagmann

1971 film by Bo Widerberg

1995 film by Mario Van Peebles

2017 film by Tommy O'Haver

1990 film by Richard Pearce

2006 documentary film about John Lennon directed by David Leaf

2007 film directed by Kasi Lemmons

2012 film by Billy Bob Thornton

2006 film by Shannon Keith

2009 film by Rick Goldsmith

2014 film by Diego Luna

2012 film by Alex Gibney

2015 documentary film by Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent

2024 film directed by Marcel Barrena

2000 film directed by Robert Greenwald

2009 film by Jacques Servin, Igor Vamos

2007 film by Kōji Wakamatsu

1917 film by Edward Dillon

1912 film by Hal Reid

1917 film

1990 documentary film directed by Mark Kitchell

2015 film by Jerry Rothwell

1993 film by Michael Tuchner

2022 film directed by Daniel Goldhaber

2010 film directed by Mohit Suri

2002 television film directed by Julie Dash

2013 Russian television film about Pussy Riot

1960 film directed by Nagisa Ōshima

1990 film by Connie Field, Judith Montell

1992 film by Michael Apted

2025 musical film by Sebastián Lelio

1980 film directed by John Sayles

2007 film

1979 film