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101. Riot in the Streets (1997)
directed by Alex Munoz, David C. Johnson, Galen Yuen, Richard Dilello
featuring Luke Perry, Cicely Tyson, Mario Van Peebles
This off-beat urban anthology offers four different views of the mayhem and destruction that came from the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The first vignette ... More
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102. Simba (1955)
directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
featuring Dirk Bogarde, Virginia McKenna, Basil Sydney, Marie Ney, Joseph Tomelty
The recent Mau Mau uprising in Kenya served as story material for the 1955 British film Simba. White farmer Dirk Bogarde and his neighbors are ... More
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103. Justice in a Small Town (1994)
directed by Jan Egleson
featuring Kate Jackson, John Shea, Dean Stockwell, Rand Courtney, Terry O'Quinn
Caring more about justice than her own safety, a courageous Georgian civil service employee agrees to testify about the corruption rampant in the ... More
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104. Utu (1983)
directed by Geoff Murphy
featuring Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Kelly Johnson, Wi Kuki Kaa, Tim Elliott
Utu is the Maori word for "Retribution," which sums up the chief motivating factor of this New Zealand-produced drama. Set in the 1870s, the film ... More
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105. Platillos Volantes (2003)
directed by Óscar Aibar
featuring Jordi Vilches, Ángel de Andrés Lopez, Macarena Gomez, José Luis Adserias, Leo Bassi
Filmmaker Oscar Aibar wrote and directed this Spanish film which blends together elements of the science-fiction and psychological-thriller genres. ... More
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106. Chico (2001)
directed by Ibolya Fekete
featuring Eduardo Rozsa Flores, Sergio Hernandez
A political adventure that incorporates documentary footage and real-life events into its narrative, Chico is the story of a man who bears witness to ... More
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107. Mr. Ace (1946)
directed by Edwin L. Marin
featuring George Raft, Sylvia Sidney, Stanley Ridges, Sara Haden, Jerome Cowan
His movie career on a roll since the surprise success of 1946's Johnny Angel, George Raft was starred in the Benedict Bogeaus production Mister Ace. ... More
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108. La Nuit de la Vérité (2006)
directed by Fanta Regina Nacro
featuring Naky Sy Savane, Commandant Moussa Cissé, Georgette Paré, Adama Ouedraogo, Rasmane Ouedraogo
The end of one conflict may lead to the beginning of another in this drama, the first feature from filmmaker Fanta Regina Nacro. In a nameless ... More
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109. Made in Argentina (1986)
directed by Juan José Jusid
featuring Luis Brandoni, Marta Bianchi, Leonor Manso, Patricio Contreras, Alberto Busaid
This 1986 film portrays a couple from Argentina who move to New York City for political reasons, but later wish to journey back to their home. ~ John ... More
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110. Bab El-Oued City (1994)
directed by Merzak Allouache
featuring Nadia Kaci, Mohamed Ourdache, Hassan Abdou, Mabrouk Ait Amara, Mourad Khen
The potential dangers inherent in the continued increase of Islamic fundamentalism in Algeria is clearly portrayed in this European political drama. ... More
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111. The Shadow of a Gunman
directed by Joseph Hardy
Richard Dreyfuss stars in this story about an Irish tenement in the 1920's that suffers a stir when a soft spoken poet who lives there is suspected ... More
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112. Mr. Cinema (2007)
directed by Samson Chiu
featuring Anthony Wong, Ronald Cheng, Teresa Mo, Karen Mok, Paw Hee-ching
A poor film projectionist witnesses forty years of Hong Kong history in this socially themed family melodrama starring acclaimed Hong Kong character ... More
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113. Panther (1995)
directed by Mario Van Peebles
featuring Kadeem Hardison, Bokeem Woodbine, Joe Don Baker, Courtney B. Vance, Tyrin Turner
This controversial political drama semi-fictionalizes the history of the radical Black Panther Party, an African-American organization that polarized ... More
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114. Saint Lucifer (1997)
directed by Miguel Sobido
Featuring a story that closely parallels the Indian revolt in the Mexican state of Chiapas that occurred in the mid 1990s, this politically correct ... More
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115. La Primera Noche (2003)
directed by Luis Alberto Restrepo
featuring Carolina Lizarazo, John Alex Toro, Hernan Mendez, Enrique Carriazo, Julian Roman
Luis Restrepo makes his feature debut with this tense tale of two brothers torn apart by Colombia's modern-day civil war. Wilson (Hernan Mandez) is a ... More
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116. El Grito (2000)
When a tyrannical regime forces its brutalized citizens into rebellion, their fate lies in the hands of one man -- a lawyer. Far from being a mere ... More
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117. And the Children Shall Lead (1985)
directed by Michael Pressman
In honor of Martin Luther King's birthday, PBS' Wonderworks presentation of January 14, 1985 was And the Children Shall Lead. Set in Mississippi in ... More
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118. Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
directed by Michael Anderson
featuring James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns, Michael Redgrave
Filmed on location, Shake Hands With the Devil is set in Ireland during the "troubles" of 1921. James Cagney plays a brilliant medical professor who ... More
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119. Nightbreaker (1989)
directed by Peter Markle
featuring Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Lea Thompson, Melinda Dillon, Joe Pantoliano
Father-and-son actors Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez star in the made-for-TV movie Nightbreaker. The film was first telecast March 9, 1989, two ... More
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120. Berlin Jerusalem (1989)
directed by Amos Gitai
featuring Lisa Kreuzer, Markus Stockhausen, Benjamin Levy, Vernon Dobtcheff
This difficult-to-follow arthouse film explores the parallel stories of two very idealistic Zionist women who never met in real life. The story ... More
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121. Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
directed by Theo Angelopoulos
featuring Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern, Erland Josephson, Thanassis Vengos
Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, this drama centers on the Balkan conflict as viewed through the eyes of a filmmaker named A ... More
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122. L'Apocalypse (1970)
A young Rumanian man is reunited with his father, half brother and half sister in France. His half siblings desire to be revolutionaries but are ... More
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123. Troubles (1988)
directed by Christopher Morahan
Ireland's long history of political turmoil is put under the spotlight in director Chris Morahan's film Trouble, which centers around the shell ... More
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124. Bolshevism on Trial (1919)
directed by Harley Knoles
featuring Robert W. Frazer, Pinna Nesbit, Leslie Stowe, Howard Truesdale
Thomas Dixon, author of The Klansman, which became the basis for D.W. Griffith's classic film The Birth of a Nation, tackled socialism in Comrades, ... More
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125. Terra em Transe (1966)
directed by Glauber Rocha
featuring Jardel Filho, Paulo Autran, Jose Lewgoy, Glauber Rocha, Paulo Gracindo
This Brazilian example of cinema novo chronicles the struggle of a man deeply entangled within unstable and crooked politics. The story is told in ... More
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