El grito (1968)
• May 17th, 1968 • 1h 42min
Documentary
Overview
In the summer of revolt 1968, student Leobardo López Aretche captured the protests in Mexico City, and the state’s brutal response, up close – and like many of his subjects and fellow comrades, would pay a high price for his audacity. Fifty years later, his movie is no longer a secret.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
TRANSIT
Released on: 2010-09-30
Documentary
In this documentary Angela Zumpe searches for traces of her brother, who moved from west to east Ger...
Road Not Taken
Released on: 2016-12-10
Documentary
After the failed Umbrella Revolution in 2014, lives go back to normal, but the scenes of the great p...
A Film Like Any Other
Released on: 1968-09-30
Documentary
An analysis of the social upheaval of May 1968, made in the immediate wake of the workers’ and stude...
Tulevaisuuden rakentajat
Released on: 2021-12-06
Documentary
For a hundred years, the Association of Finnish Student Unions (SYL) has acted as the mouthpiece for...
Freedom Isn't Free — The Freedom Charter Today
Released on: 2018-06-02
Documentary
Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key polit...
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
Released on: 2017-01-20
Documentary
When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua...
Gewalt no Mori - Kare ha Waseda de shinda
Released on: 2024-05-25
Documentary
A documentary about the end of the student movement in 1972 and the lynching of Daizaburo Kawaguchi,...
Refuge(e)
Released on: 2019-03-14
Documentary
Refuge(e) traces the incredible journey of two refugees, Alpha and Zeferino. Each fled violent threa...
Trial and Error
Released on: 2020-01-10
Documentary
This Anti-ELAB (Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill) Movement documentary short takes us back to the...
June Turmoil
Released on: 1969-01-01
Documentary
The film speaks of student demonstrations in Belgrade, 1969 and of the critical quality, enthusiasm ...
Ayotzinapa
Released on: 2015-06-19
Documentary
This film is a story, testimony and documentation of the forced disappearance of 43 student teachers...
When a City Rises
Released on: 2021-04-23
Documentary
Behind the gas masks of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, the often very young activists are just as d...
SnowwhiteRosered
Released on: 1991-10-24
Documentary
Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebel...
Sports
Released on: 1932-07-15
Documentary, Action
The film is about a protest provoked when the university decided to restrict access to sports facili...
A Night of Knowing Nothing
Released on: 2022-04-13
Documentary, Romance
L, a student in India witness to the government's violent response to university protests, writes le...
The Giant is Falling
Released on: 2016-11-03
Documentary
The film documents the key political issues in recent years in South Africa that have marked the dem...
2012/Through the heart
Released on: 2023-03-31
Documentary
What remains of the 2012 Quebec student protests? Little has changed in the decade that ensued. Rodr...
Tragedy or Hope
Released on: 1972-01-01
History, Documentary
Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing a...
Brink of Disaster!
Released on: 1972-01-01
History, Documentary, Comedy
A student is held up in the library while a riot rages outside. As SDS protesters head to burn the l...
Vive la Revolution! Joan Bakewell on May '68
Released on: 2018-05-09
Documentary
In 1968 Joan Bakewell was one of the few female TV presenters, fronting the BBC's Late Night Line-Up...