Social Movements and Activism: Streaming on Docuseek
Essential documentary films for higher education

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Docuseek is highlighting timely and urgent films on the power of student and peace activism and advancing social justice and peace around the world. These films educate on social movements throughout history, from protestors’ experiences to nonviolent resistance, shedding light on the power of collective action.

The selection includes films about youth and student activism fighting for social change from The Docuseek Complete Collection like '63 Boycott, about the 1963 student boycott to protest racial segregation in Chicago Public Schools; and Everything Must Fall, Hum 255, and The Five Demands, about present and past protests on college campuses.

Highlights from The GOOD DOCS Complete Collection include Raise Your Voice, Us Kids, YOUTH v GOV about groundbreaking youth activism. Schools in Fight, from The Pragda Complete Film Collection, show students as they fight for their right to an education.

Licensing options are one-year, three-year and Life of File for single titles, The Docuseek Complete Collection 4th Edition, The Pragda Complete Film Collection; and one-year and three-year for The GOOD DOCS Complete Collection. Ask us about our Spring Special discounts!

A playlist of these films and more is available for Docuseek Complete Collection, GOOD DOCS Complete Collection and/or Pragda Complete Film Collection subscribers to watch now.

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'63 Boycott

In an attempt to protest racial segregation, 250,000 students boycott the Chicago Public Schools in 1963. (Bullfrog Films)

The Boys Who Said NO!

The first documentary film to profile the young men and women who actively opposed the military draft in order to end the Vietnam War. (Bullfrog Films)

Coconut Head Generation

In Nigeria, a group of students from the University of Ibadan organize a film club and transform a small classroom into a space for conversation and impassioned debate. (Icarus Films)

Connectivity Project: Speaking Out!

Clarissa, an indigenous high school student, is inspired by the actions of famed Love Canal activist organizer Lois Gibbs. (Bullfrog Films)

Education and Nationalism

Documents the Japanese government’s re-writing of textbooks and education to support their political point of view. (Icarus Films)

Everything Must Fall

Can a diverse group of college kids find common ground with their school’s faculty and janitorial staff to bring the school administration to its knees? Can they banish a nation’s crippling student debt, guarantee workers benefits and living wages, and implement free college for all? (Icarus Films)

The Five Demands

A riveting story about the student strike that changed the face of higher education forever. (Icarus Films)

Hum 255

Two women, expelled a year earlier during a student strike at the University of Chicago, confront students about their convictions and how far they are willing to go to defend their values. (Kartemquin Films)

Raise Your Voice

These aren’t just kids practicing their first amendment rights, they are living them. (GOOD DOCS)

Schools in Fight

Follows students as they fight for their right to an education. Through interviews and cameras inside the buildings, operated by the same students, the film throws light on a generation that dared to face that autocratic gesture of the State. (Pragda STREAM)

Town Destroyer

A high profile battle erupts over images of African American slaves and Native Americans in New Deal-era murals at George Washington High School in San Francisco, leading to a passionate outpouring of activism and opinions about art, history, and racial reckoning in America. (Bullfrog Films)

Us Kids

Determined to turn tragedy into action, survivors of a school shooting catalyze an unprecedented youth movement that spreads like wildfire across the world (GOOD DOCS)

We Are The Radical Monarchs

Follows the Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color on the frontlines of social justice. (Bullfrog Films)

YOUTH v GOV

21 young Americans are suing the government to protect their constitutional rights to a stable climate. If they win, they will change the future. (GOOD DOCS)

Social Movements and Activism Playlist

The Docuseek Complete Collection 4th Edition

The GOOD DOCS Complete Collection

The Pragda Complete Film Collection

Docuseek streams essential independent, social-issue and environmental documentaries to colleges and universities, providing exclusive access to content from Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films (including The Fanlight Collection and dGenerate Films), Women Make Movies, Kartemquin Films, National Film Board of Canada, First Run Features, KimStim, First Hand Films, MediaStorm, Scorpion TV, Terra Nova Films, Viewpoint Productions, Film Movement, Deckert Distribution, The Films of Anand Patwardhan, Cinétévé, Tecolote Films, Strange Attractions, Clarity Films, AndanaFilms, 371 Productions, Dutch CORE, Autlook, Collective Eye Films, Distrib Films, Lightdox, GOOD DOCS, Global Environmental Justice (GEJ) Documentaries and Pragda. Licenses are available for single titles or collections for periods ranging from one year to Life of File. Register and log in here to view pricing for your institution. Interested in a trial for your campus? Contact Elena Wayne, Sales and Marketing Manager, 847-537-0606 or at ewayne@docuseek2.com.