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A curated selection of essential new political documentaries available for local screenings through Cinema Politica, addressing resistance, justice, and social change worldwide.
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The story of how Tupac Shakur’s stepfather Dr. Mutulu Shakur, along with fellow Black Panthers and the Young Lords, created the first acupuncture detoxification program in the U.S.

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Cinema Politica exhibits, distributes, and streams independent political films. We believe in the power of art to not only entertain but to engage, inform, inspire, and provoke social change.

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With an ever-growing collection of firebrand films in our catalogue, CP Distribution brings provocative films to cinemas, institutions and communities.
Babis Makridis  ·  2024  ·  1h24m
Babis Makridis  ·  2024  ·  1h24m

This ripped-from-the-headlines investigative documentary follows the creation and devastating impact of a digital advertising fraud operation.

A person in low green light beside piles of produce under a hanging lamp.
Still from Blackwater
Natxo Leuza  ·  2025  ·  1h25m
Natxo Leuza  ·  2025  ·  1h25m

In southern Bangladesh, Lokhi and her family prepare to escape an extreme climate and flee to Dhaka - the fastest growing city in the world.

Michèle Stephenson  ·  2025  ·  1h36m
Michèle Stephenson  ·  2025  ·  1h36m

A haunting plunge into the Canadian archive, recapturing a 1969 student protest at Montreal’s Sir George Williams University against the administration’s anti-Black racism

Portrait of an Indigenous man featured in the documentary Reel Injun, which explores Indigenous representation and history in cinema.
Neil Diamond, Jeremiah Hayes & Catherine Bainbridge  ·  2009  ·  1h28m
Neil Diamond, Jeremiah Hayes & Catherine Bainbridge  ·  2009  ·  1h28m

Reel Injun revisits film history through Indigenous voices reclaiming representation and telling their own stories.

John Peterson standing in a green field on his Illinois farm under a clear sky.
Farmer John Peterson on his Illinois organic farm. © The Real Dirt on Farmer John.
Taggart Siegel  ·    ·  1h23m
Taggart Siegel  ·    ·  1h23m

A subversive romp about a Midwestern American farmer who seeks, with appropriate zeal and flair, to combine the growing of food with political art.

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