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81
8.1
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75
/919/
71
/479/
3.8
/20376/
90
/10/
94
/972/

Rang De Basanti (2006)
After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a friend owing to local government corruption awakens their patriotism. Inspired by the freedom fighters they represent in the film, the friends collectively decide to avenge the killing.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
7.4
/18786/
71
/341/
72
/410/
3.8
/78949/
96
/47/
86
/379/
93
/14/

Masculin Féminin (1966)
Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.
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Criterion Channel
80
78
7.5
/16336/
73
/308/
73
/448/
3.9
/36000/
97
/29/
89
/271/

Stolen Kisses (1968)
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
7.2
/3607/
74
/57/
68
/92/
3.7
/2689/
100
/6/
76
/18/

May Fools (1990)
During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
75
7.4
/58258/
75
/2811/
75
/1883/
3.7
/255083/
87
/87/
80
/476/
71
/20/
7.7
/132215/
cc age 9+

From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics—and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young generation struggles to throw off the shackles of a troubled past. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi and Shun—but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart.
poster
73
7.1
/140736/
71
/3163/
72
/3017/
3.6
/253788/
59
/163/
78
/2636/
63
/40/

The Dreamers (2003)
When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.
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The Roku Channel
76
69
7.7
/7829/
78
/297/
81
/166/
3.9
/11469/
82
/11/
65
/18/

1987: When the Day Comes (2017)
In January 1987, a 22-year-old college student dies during a police interrogation. Under the orders of Director Park, the police request the body to be cremated in order to destroy evidence. Public Prosecutor Choi, who was on duty on the day of the incident, denies the request and calls for an autopsy. The police maintain the lie that the death was a simple accident, resulting from shock. The autopsy results, however, point to torture as the cause of death. Yoon, a journalist following the case, reports that the death was a result of asphyxiation during torture. Director Park attempts to conceal the truth by ending the case, arresting two detectives including inspector Cho. While in prison, inspector Cho reveals the truth to prison guard Han Byung-yong, who embarks on a dangerous mission to relay the information to an opposition politician through his niece, Yeon-hee.
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66
6.9
/18029/
67
/292/
70
/429/
3.6
/22454/
64
/33/
74
/339/

Zabriskie Point (1970)
Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.
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Netflix
68
61
7.3
/9732/
66
/120/
65
/50/
3.4
/2574/
77
/126/
63
/4/

Yuva (2004)
An accident on a bridge ties together three young men from different social classes, sparking a course of events that will forever alter their lives.
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Amazon Prime Video
61
6.2
/15840/
63
/592/
62
/367/
3.2
/29717/
64
/22/
59
/469/
54
/7/

Fritz the Cat (1972)
A swinging, hypocritical college student cat raises hell in a satirical vision of the 1960s.
poster
56
6.4
/3099/
66
/80/
62
/43/
3.2
/819/
44
/18/
54
/76/
32
/10/

Eight Miles High (2007)
Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but soon becomes the "it girl" of Munich's club scene. When she gets to know Rainer Langhans, they move to Berlin and live in "Kommune 1", the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. While the other occupants claim she isn't political enough, Uschi just wants to have fun, works as fashion model and leads international music stars in temptation.
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Amazon Prime Video
62
54
6.7
/4743/
69
/153/
65
/80/
3.2
/1621/
53
/17/
58
/240/

Stone of Destiny (2008)
Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Scottish undergraduates, whose action rekindled Scottish nationalistic pride.
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67
23
6.7
/657/
70
/14/
63
/41/
3.4
/397/

Working Slowly (Radio Alice) (2004)
Bologna, 1976. The paths of two aimless young friends intertwine with those of Radio Alice, a pirate radio politically aligned with the leftist student movement.
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70
23
8.0
/174/
58
/6/
69
/22/
3.8
/988/

The Shout (1968)
In the summer of revolt 1968, student Leobardo López Aretche captured the protests in Mexico City, and the state’s brutal response, up close – and like many of his subjects and fellow comrades, would pay a high price for his audacity. Fifty years later, his movie is no longer a secret.
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53
21
5.8
/941/
60
/27/
54
/87/
3.1
/404/
35
/14/

The Big Dream (2009)
Italy, 1968. Aspiring actor Nicola enrolls in the police to pay for his studies, ending up undercover among college students protesting the government, the Vietnam War and the values of their parents' generation. However, he complicates his mission by falling for Laura, a bourgeois girl dreaming of a better world.
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72
20
7.7
/995/
68
/21/
76
/4/
3.5
/1127/

Nammavar (1994)
Selvam, the new vice principal of a college, tries to transform the behaviour of troublemaking students while fighting an inner war.
poster
72
17
6.8
/114/
73
/3/
82
/4/
3.4
/1653/

The Battle (2025)
21 sequence shots depict moments in a defining night of the Battle of Rua Maria Antônia, in October 1968, from the point of view of the students and professors of the Left-wing Student Movement, in the Philosophy Faculty building of USP.
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66
12
6.8
/435/
66
/22/
64
/8/
3.4
/513/

Short Working Day (1995)
A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the local Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party.
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6.6
/62/
10
/2/
55
/4/

Plagio (1969)
During the student movement in Bologna, Italy. 1968. Angela and Massimo are friends, lovers and college students. They get to know Guido, the heir of a wealthy family who has never known love pure. Impressed by the feeling that binds the two lovers, Guido invites them to move into his house. Soon, in a series of betrayals, confessions, departures and returns, it will create a conscious threesome bound to result in tragedy.
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10
/1/

Krawall (1970)
A Swiss political documentary about the Zurich youth unrest of 1968
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?
100
/1/

Anti-Aluno (2023)
In an extremely systematic, oppressive, and controlling school, a student breaks free from collective alienation and sparks a true revolution in their class, fighting for freedom, mental health, and better education quality.
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?
80
/1/
70
/1/

The Giant is Falling (2016)
The film documents the key political issues in recent years in South Africa that have marked the demise of the African National Congress (ANC). These include the Marikana massacre in August 2012, whereby 34 striking miners were gunned down by the ANC government's police force. Rehad Desai documented this historic event in his 2013 film MINERS SHOT DOWN. He refers to the incident once again in his latest film and shows how the ANC is undermining its close connections to the trade unions it set up as a freedom movement under Nelson Mandela, and how students have also turned on the party to protest against tuition fees under the motto #FeesMustFall. The film's compelling footage unmasks the cynical despotism of corrupt president Jacob Zuma, who is chiefly responsible for the ANC's demise and its catastrophic losses at the most recent elections. It also introduces opposition movements that are challenging his now-untenable position.
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6.2
/53/
60
/2/
56
/6/

I'm Not A Rebel (2017)
Mexico 1968: students are the public enemy. Mitch, a wealthy student of Monterrey, hijacks a plane to retrieve Beatrice, who has been kidnapped by the secret police six months ago. Armed with a gun, which he doesn't know how to use, and helped by his two friends as allies, Mitch will face the most bloodthirsty General and force him to release the love of his life.
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100
/1/

Big Words From A Small Man (2022)
our short stories interlaced to create a surreal world of absurdity, in which characters try to find connections in the mundane.
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10
/2/

Daughters of the Fatherland (2023)
During the student crisis of 1968, Ines, an 18-year-old homosexual, is prevented from attending law school by her family, who believe that this is not the right course for a woman. This awakens in Inês a feeling of injustice, which leads her to accept Julio's invitation to join the high school students' association. The next day, we find out that the student association has been closed since they found a copy of the clandestine newspaper "Avante!" on the premises. The rectory then decides to expel suspicious students, starting a revolt in the high school and an ideological confrontation between the couple of Inês and Adelaide.
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60
/1/

Road Not Taken (2016)
After the failed Umbrella Revolution in 2014, lives go back to normal, but the scenes of the great protest are like yesterday for Billy and Popsy, students in the University of Hong Kong who took part in the movement. One of them now becomes a student leader, while the other chooses a low-profile life as a private tutor. Amid the rapid social changes, when the Communist Beijing government is extending their influence to Hong Kong to take away the freedom and democracy, how would the youths see their future? Do they still see hopes, when both peaceful protests and radical actions seem to be futile?
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6.4
/19/
10
/1/

Love and So Forth (1968)
Munich, 1968: a period of liberation, student revolts, state repression. Amidst the restlessness, chemistry student Robbie meets the Irish cello player Nancy. They feel compelled to pursue a passion in spite of their careers. But does romantic love have a place in such convoluted, contesting times?
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7.1
/27/
50
/1/

Ayotzinapa (2015)
This film is a story, testimony and documentation of the forced disappearance of 43 student teachers, which exposes the criminal complicity between the police and military authorities, between the political and economic elites and criminal organizations in Mexico, which appear to be different forces, but respond to similar interests.
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1.9
/8/

Ignition (2021)
In the midst of a climate of political repression, Ernesto is a student who believes that the "revolution" will only begin if there is a martyr for the cause; Isaac, his best friend and his student leader, seems like the ideal candidate.
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6.9
/65/
72
/4/
70
/2/

When a City Rises (2021)
Behind the gas masks of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, the often very young activists are just as diverse as the youths of the rest of the world. But they share a demand for democracy and freedom. They have the will and the courage to fight – and they can see that things are going in the wrong direction in the small island city, which officially has autonomy under China but is now tightening its grip and demanding that ‘troublemakers’ be put away or silenced. Amid the violent protests, we meet a 21-year-old student, a teenage couple and a new father.
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60
/1/

Trial and Error (2020)
This Anti-ELAB (Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill) Movement documentary short takes us back to the airport occupation on 12 August 2019. Although this new form of protest soon turned into a crisis, it became an important lesson for the protesters. Compared to the tension inside the airport terminal, the long walk home at sunset on the Lantau highway, which connects the Hong Kong International Airport to the residential areas, felt like a reminiscence of a school field trip.
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70
/1/

Dutschke – Schüsse von Rechts (2020)
On April 11, 1968, Rudi Dutschke is assassinated in West Berlin. He is regarded as the spokesman and symbolic figure of the socially critical, left-wing student movement. As a hate figure of right-wing media and neo-Nazis, he stands like no other for the radicalization of an anti-authoritarian movement. The assassination triggers the biggest political unrest in the still young Federal Republic of Germany. Alongside contemporary witnesses such as Knut Nevermann, Rainer Langhans, Stefan Aust, Barbara Sichtermann, Peter Wensierski, Thomas Giefer, Bahman Nirumand and Gretchen Dutschke, Rudi Dutschke himself provides the most important description of his person.
poster
?
5.4
/87/
32
/4/
56
/10/

H2S (1969)
Young student runs away from a 1984-esque dictatorship, lives for a while with a crazy girl in a surrealistic “igloo” in snowy wilderness and then returns to lead a revolution against the oppressive system. Sci-fi tale consistent with the political climate of May 68.
poster
?
4.7
/27/
30
/1/

The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (2010)
Directed in 1980 and released in 2013. On the issue of addiction in Iran in the 1980s. Mohsen's father is going to pass away soon due to an illness, however, Mohsen himself has been missing for 6 months. A BSc medicine student, he has become a drug addict and lost himself in the slums. Setting out to help him out of his conditions, and deliver his mother's care to him, his father starts searching for him. The movie is embedded in the social conditions of the 70s AD Iran, has a 70s Iranian chivalric tincture, religious color-as was the climate of the Iranian society at the time- and is blended with historic state propaganda. For the audience of that time, this movie would have received a fair score, as it touches on religious notions. However, the issue it addresses is far more complicated and sophisticated at this age, and its propaganda outlook can no longer attract significant commercial or critical attention.
poster
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7.1
/34/
43
/3/
57
/3/

SnowwhiteRosered (1991)
Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebelled against middle class society as if they gave vent to a new kind of art. They became active in the underground communist party KPD and showed a heart-felt interest in the colour red, the aesthetics of the revolution. Soon, though, the twins quit their experiments in Germany. They left their husbands and went to Rome, where they met the fabulously wealthy Paul Getty III, and soon things got really out of hand.
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?
6.1
/16/
10
/1/
52
/4/

Nameless Stars (1959)
The son of a freedom fighter, Sang-hun is a member of an anti-Japanese resistance group called "Seongjinhoe," composed of students who share a dedication to the cause of liberation. Their spiritual guide is a teacher named Song Un-in. One day, Yeong-ae, whose brother is a detective in the Japanese police force charged with monitoring independence movements, joins their group. Following a series of sporadic incidents, the students gather one night to resolve on an uprising, but are discovered by the police. Young-ae is wrongfully accused of betraying their plans, but she risks her life in order to allow the group members to escape. The morning after, the students of Gwangju rise up against the Japanese government.
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5.3
/37/
35
/2/
50
/2/

Oxygen (1970)
In this story set in near future, a group of young rebels, hippies and 1968 protesters want to cede and make an independent Island from the Mainland. A journalist who came to the Island to make a report about political summit that takes place there gets involved in the clash between young rebels and establishment.
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10
/1/
60
/1/

The Song of Resurrection (1990)
Cheol-gi who dreams of a society that embraces justice begins classes at a night school. There he learns about political and social contradictions and the realities the people face. While doing research on factory conditions with his classmates Tae-il, Min-sook and laborers Hyun-sil and Bong-joon, Cheol-gi learns about the Revitalizing Reforms system and the improper practices in emergency measures. After the military revolution, during the election for a general student body in a move towards democracy, Cheol-gi unwittingly becomes a man on the run when emergency martial law is implemented in response by the government. Cheol-gi blames himself when hears about the deaths of Tae-il and Min-sook during the Gwang-ju Uprising from Hyun-sil and Bong-joon. Just when he and Hyun-sil try to start a new life together, Cheol-gi is arrested and put in jail. Inside the prison, he starts another move towards prison democracy.
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Una Carta al ARPARO (2025)
After noticing the shortcomings of its university BUAP by its students, it suffers its biggest unemployment in recent years. The faculty of plastic and audiovisual arts show the life they had and the ties that were formed during thirty-three days
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La parte bassa (1978)
Divided into three parts (two documentary and one fictional), the film explores the early stages of the 1977 movement, between demonstrations and heated assemblies at the Circoli del Proletariato Giovanile of the State University of Milan. The daily difficulties and the search for redemption are told without rhetoric, but with a raw reflection on social marginalization.
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TRANSIT (2010)
In this documentary Angela Zumpe searches for traces of her brother, who moved from west to east Germany in 1968 to live in the DDR but killed himself eight months after.
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Colombe (2021)
Khian, Pim and Karn, young rebellious students, work together to make a protest to uncover the corruption in their school by folding hundreds of paper cranes. But as they tried to unfold the truth, the trio are threatened by the shadowy powers.
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Sports (1932)
The film is about a protest provoked when the university decided to restrict access to sports facilities to athletes, cutting out all other students. This is, strictly speaking, not a Prokino film. It was produced by the Waseda University Film Circle, which was organized by Kawazoe Shiro. Feature film directors Yamamoto Satsuo and Taniguchi Senkichi were apparently students at Waseda at the time and participated in the production.
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Tulevaisuuden rakentajat (2021)
For a hundred years, the Association of Finnish Student Unions (SYL) has acted as the mouthpiece for Finnish university students. SYL opened its doors to the world and was a pioneer in both student health care and housing production. At the same time, there have been marches both for developing countries and against the Soviet Union.


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