Negotiating Liberation: Don't Be A Dream, Please Be Real / 2021

The music of lovers on screen is a melancholic exploration of how the very act of expressing private love is a form of quiet rebellion against the loneliness of immigrant life outside one’s home country.

The Liberation of Griffith Park, or A Gay Time Was Had By All / 1971

A twist on the hippie movement’s spirited outdoor gatherings, Los Angeles’ first “Gay-In”s took place in Griffith Park in the early 1970s. This short is a rare document of both the visions of revelry and bypassing voices of dissent as gays and lesbians first began to publicly celebrate their identities.

Liberation of Rome / 1944

Documentary short film depicting the successful Allied advance into Rome, freeing it from German control during World War II.

Njiqahdda: The Path of Liberation from Birth and Death /

The Path of Liberation from Birth and Death album accompanied by experimental footage shot by Njiqaddah

Liberation Radio / 2021

This 1960s station, set up in the North Vietnamese mission in Stockholm, recruited American military deserters to create recordings in an attempt to persuade others to desert.

QueerEdge: From Gay to Queer Liberation / 2017

This feature documentary links the principles and tenets of gay liberation in the Stonewall era to today's queer liberation movement. Over 30 academics, activists and artists share in-depth insights on their queer liberation sensibilities. From historical referencing to contemporary and modern day issues affecting the LGBTQ communities, revealed is an internal divide between those who have sought and are content with equality and those who challenge mainstreaming and continue to fight for liberation. A critical, socio-political analysis of gender and sexual politics is provided, highlighting the importance of maintaining a liberationist perspective for the LGBTQ movement.

Autour de la libération d'Henri Martin / 1953

Les derniers compagnons de la libération / 2020

Protest: Queer Liberation March for Black Lives and Against Police Brutality, NYC 2020 / 2020

A study of the pageantry and actions of LGBTQ+ and BLM protesters in New York City as they protest for their rights

Osvobozhdenie (Liberation) / 1971

Chantons la Libération / 2016

Music For Psychological Liberation / 1994

A 3 hour Japanese documentary & Live gig video of the Osaka Noise/Weirdo Rock scene in 1994. Includes Boredoms & side projects (UFO or DIE, Hanatarash, Concrete Octopus), Masonna, Incapacitants & lots more! Yamatsuka Eye gives an interview in his apartment and plays a toy guitar in his bath tub.

Black Liberation / 1967

Produced in collaboration with Malcolm X and narrated by Ossie Davis, this call to arms layers revolutionary text from multiple sources with gritty, shot-on-the-streets-of-New York footage of African-American struggle. A forgotten masterpiece from radical filmmaker, theorist and founder of Cinéma Éngagé, Édouard de Laurot.

CHE IN CONGO - DREAM OF LIBERATION (F/F) /

An urgent meditation on the legacy of revolutionary war framed by the combatants, survivors and inheritors of violence. 1965: Che Guevara undertakes a secret mission to DR Congo to support the liberation movement. Fifty years later we travel to Belgium, Cuba and eastern Congo in search of those who fought alongside – and against – this global icon. We find the Belgian former mercenary who says his years fighting in the mountains of eastern Congo were the best of his life; the Cuban generals and Congolese soldiers he trained. We hear from men and women as they strive to raise their children in the long shadows of war and colonialism. Narrated by a Congolese radio journalist, hers is the voice of the new DRC. In her words, and in rare footage and images, the country’s vital future unfolds.

The Liberation of the Mannique Mechanique / 1967

Although best known for his photography, Steven Arnold also wrote, designed, and directed several groundbreaking visionary films, The Liberation of Mannique Mechanique being the first. Stuart Comer of the Tate Modern (London) said of Mannique: “a macabre, decadent work presenting mannequins and models that travel through strange universes toward possible self-discovery.” Brooklyn-based artist and writer Kate Wadkins in a recent online article observed: “Arnold’s films are dream-like visions of androgynous beings. Their narratives are modern-day fairy tales and reveries about gender — all through the lens of an acid trip.”

Childcare: People's Liberation (Newsreel #56) / 1970

The film shows how community run childcare centers are a step toward liberation, by giving parents and children a chance to develop relationships with their peers and new relationships with each other. Focusing in the need for childcare and what good childcare could be, the film interviews women who express their desperation to find a safe environment for their children, and shows them taking positive action. Filming in daycare centers, it records what good parent-controlled daycare could mean for children as well as parents. Filmmakers Bonnie Friedman and Karen Mitnik said, "Being activist filmmakers, we were interested in showing everyday people taking control of their situation by utilizing empty community space to set up their own daycare centers. Using equipment shared amongst several projects within the Newsreel collective, we shot mostly on the streets of New York City with a Bolex and Nagra for sound."

WWII Liberation of Europe: The Push to Berlin /

For GIs, the twisting city streets of the Nazi Fatherland were as foreign as Oz. Nevertheless, in the spring of 1945, they moved east into Germany.

Liberation at Bunker Nordosten / 2023

During WWII, an American soldier, Doug Wilson, has been captured by the nefarious Germans. The German general, Franz Lieber, has tasked his scientist with experimenting on Wilson deep underground in a place known as Bunker Nordosten. However, as the war reaches its end, Franz Lieber orders for Doug Wilson's execution. Through the cold German air, Wilson is dragged into a field and is tied down to a post, while the German firing squad awaits their orders. Doug Wilson's fate now rests within the hands of Franz Lieber and his German soldiers.

Il fantasma della libertà / 19748.047 voti

Nel prologo, anno 1808, assistiamo alla fucilazione di patrioti e di un ufficiale profanatore di tombe. Poi si passa al presente, ed ecco un uomo che mostra a due bimbe foto "oscene" dei monumenti di Parigi, un assassino messo in libertà, la repressione di una manifestazione che inneggia alle catene...

Images of Liberation / 1982

Set in Copenhagen during World War II, the film follows a German officer who visits his Danish mistress in the days after the occupation of Denmark has ended.