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Demonstrations and riots are erupting with greater frequency throughout China. Ordinary citizens are becoming increasingly outraged by the gap between rich and poor and the corruption of local officials. Will China be able to continue stable economic growth? This program paints the portrait of a nation searching for answers in the midst of turmoil.

The Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West (or Pegida) feel threatened by what they consider Muslim attacks on the Christian culture of Germany. They believe that immigrants, and particularly Muslim immigrants, are a menace to German culture and national identity. In Dresden, Germany, where Pegida started, demonstrations occur every Monday. This documentary explains Pegida's beginnings, why it is growing so fast, and what its motives...

This program documents how victims of the financial crash are fighting back. Owing to the loss of an estimated 30 million jobs, demonstrators hit the street in many cities, sometimes in violent protests, but these were easily weathered by governments and corporations. In some countries, the struggle went much further. In France, furious union members kidnap their bosses. In Iceland, protesters force a government to fall. And even in Canada, ripped...

Highlights some of the rallying causes for organized marches throughout history. Sometimes people march to resist injustice, to stand in solidarity ,to inspire hope. Throughout American history, one thing remains true: no matter how or why people march, they are powerful because they march together. -- Provided by publisher.

Based on a true story, the film describes how L.A.'s public schools treat Mexican-American students in 1968, with a mixture of negligence, apathy, and occasional cruelty. Graduation rates are low, students caught speaking Spanish in class are paddled on the spot, they are denied access to bathrooms at lunch. Paula Crisostomo is smart and gets good grades, but when she attends a student leadership conference at a wealthy Westside facility, she begins...

"5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later turned into a galvanizing cinematic experience by co-directors Burnat and Davidi. Structured around the violent destruction of a succession...

On Sunday 7th June 2020, sparked by the horrific murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, protestors marching to support the Black Lives Matter movement tore down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston and threw it in the city's harbour. This dramatic action in Bristol thrust the city onto the global stage and put it at the forefront of last summer's bitter culture wars. Caught in the eye of this storm was Bristol's mayor Marvin Rees, the first directly...

November, 1999. A peaceful demonstration to stop the World Trade Organization. Talks quickly escalate into a full-scale riot, and soon a State of Emergency is declared by the Mayor of Seattle. The streets are mayhem, and the WTO is paralyzed. Caught in the crossfire of civil liberties and keeping the peace are Seattle residents, including its beleaguered mayor, a SWAT riot officer on the streets and his pregnant wife. The choices they all make will...

A decade of lessons is applied in the climactic and bloody march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. A major victory is won when the federal Voting Rights Bill passes, but civil rights leaders know they have new challenges ahead.