Other Political Documentaries

500 Years Later (2005)

Acid from Heaven (1981)
Acid Rain: Requiem or Recovery (1981)
Afro-Punk (2003)
All On A Mardi Gras Day (2003)
America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference (1994)
America Is Hard to See (1968)
Banished (2007)

The Battle of Chile (1975)
IMDB says that Chris Marker sent Director Guzman film stock after the U.S. cut supplies to Chile. About the American-sponsored fascist coup in Chile. A sequel was made years later.

Before Stonewall (1984)
Borinage (1933)

China Blue (2005)
The Chicago Maternity Center Story (1976)
Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (1996)

End of the Dialogue (1971)
Eyes on the Prize (1987, 1990)

The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927)
The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworker's Struggle (1997)
Forgive Us Our Debts (2004)
Freedom On My Mind (1994)
From the Ashes: Nicaragua Today (1981)

Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003)
The Gringo in Mananaland (1995)

Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004)

If You Love This Planet (1982)

Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo(1986)
Last Call at Maud's (1993)
Let It Burn: The Coming Destruction Of The USA? (1968)
Letter to the Next Generation (1989)
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980)

The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
The murder of Fred Hampton, the event and not just the film, is a critical lesson for all Americans. Footage from this is featured all over the place, from Sam Green's Weather Underground to PBS's Eyes on the Prize series.

Now (1965, Santiago Alvarez)

Paragraph 175 (2000)
The Passaic Textile Strike (1926)
Peasants of the Second Fortress (1971)
Public Housing (1997, Frederick Wiseman)

Sad Song of Yellow Skin (1969)

Sans Soleil (1983, Chris Marker)
Is this really a political documentary? I have no clue.

Sans Soleil (1983, Chris Marker)
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2000)
Seeing Red (1983)
The Selling of the Pentagon (1971, Peter Davis)
The Siege Of The Short Strand (2009?)
Shoah (1985)
Sour Strawberries (2008, Tilman König and Daniel Kremers)
The Spanish Earth (1937)
Stepping Razor-Red X (1992)

The Times of Harvey Milk (1983)
Tire Die ("Throw me a Dime", 1960) Trumbo (2007)


Underground (1976)
The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)

Waves of Revolution (1975) Who's Running This War? (1986)

Valparaiso, Mi Amor (1969)