Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower (2017)
• January 20th, 2017 • 1h 18min
Documentary
Overview
When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying thousands of kids to skip school and occupy the streets, Joshua becomes an unlikely leader in Hong Kong and one of China’s most notorious dissidents.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Making of Back to the Future
Released on: 1986-10-25
TV Movie, Documentary
The Making of 'Back to the Future'
Names of Revolution
Released on: 2021-10-09
Documentary
Names of Revolution recalls the memories of those who participated in the struggle to rewrite the hi...
Hong Kong Moments
Released on: 2020-05-28
Documentary
As pro-democracy activists and armed police battle in the streets of Hong Kong, ordinary citizens ar...
Gwangju Video: The Missing
Released on: 2020-07-16
Documentary
There are people whose lives have been shaken by the 'Gwangju Video'. On May of 1980, the course of ...
Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4, and Student Protest in America
Released on: 2017-05-05
Documentary, History
This is the story of Kent State University students who stood up to question racism, violence agains...
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...
Tragedy or Hope
Released on: 1972-01-01
History, Documentary
Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing a...
Black Rain White Scars
Released on: 2014-08-06
Documentary
Black Rain White Scars depicts a twilight of reality. With the steady shot of a Gotham-like cityscap...
The Corporation
Released on: 2003-09-10
Documentary
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...
Kim-Gun
Released on: 2019-05-23
Documentary
KIM-GUN searches for the whereabouts of a young man whose identity has sparked a national controvers...
Heart Murmurs
Released on: 2023-12-01
Documentary
Heart Murmurs is a poetic dialogue between the filmmaker and Dean, a young man living in Hong Kong. ...
Fracking the System: Colorado's Oil and Gas Wars
Released on: 2024-02-25
Documentary
Fracking the System is a political thriller documentary from the front lines of climate justice acti...
Lost in the Bewilderness
Released on: 2014-03-15
Documentary
Lost in the Bewilderness is a feature-length documentary about the filmmaker’s cousin Lucas, kidnapp...
No Name Stars
Released on: 2011-05-12
Documentary
This year is the 30th anniversary of the Gwangju Democratization Movement. Though the country commem...
Juan Carlos, King of Spain
Released on: 2016-02-15
Documentary
This documentary follows Juan Carlos's life through archive footage and exclusive interviews with th...
Hong Kong Fooey
Released on:
Documentary
HongAFI nominated director, Charlie Hill-Smith’s first documentary, is a telling insight into the co...
The Way the Wind Blows in October. The 2004 Election in Uruguay
Released on: 2005-11-18
Documentary
In 2004, after 174 years in which political power was always held by one or other of the parties on ...
The Take
Released on: 2004-09-03
Documentary
In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed ceramics workers walk into their idle factory, roll out ...
How Summerhill Works
Released on: 2021-06-01
Documentary
An entertaining video filmed over two years. Kids, teachers, heads, parents, ex-pupils tell the stor...
America: The War Within
Released on: 2022-10-25
Documentary
Is America's political system crumbling? ITV's Robert Moore explores the widespread fears for its sa...