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
Lai Man-wai: Father of Hong Kong Cinema
Released on: 2002-01-01
Documentary
In the life of Mr. Lai Man-wai, he had seen the most turbulent times of recent Chinese history. From...
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...
The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel
Released on: 2020-09-10
Documentary
Two decades after the initial exposé of the corporation, this follow-up unveils a world now fully re...
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 ...
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...
Learning to Live
Released on: 1964-11-08
Animation, Documentary
The film twice states that it doesn't intend a moral injunction, but it clearly does with comments s...
YAYA
Released on: 2018-12-09
Documentary, Family
YAYA is a story about a filmmaker who explores the complex relationship between his family and the d...
Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony
Released on: 2008-02-28
Documentary
Journey with the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic and their conductor Sir Simon Rattle on a brea...
Between the Sun and the Sidewalk
Released on: 2024-02-01
Documentary
Christian Garcia, a fiercely dedicated Latino political organizer, leads a team of young people mobi...
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...
No Time to Fail
Released on: 2022-10-07
Documentary
Amidst an onslaught of attacks from a sitting President and the deadly threat of a global pandemic, ...
Primary
Released on: 1960-11-08
Documentary
Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphre...
The Edge of Democracy
Released on: 2019-01-24
Documentary
A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore ...
Los posibles
Released on: 2013-04-01
Documentary
Santiago Mitre co-directs his first movement following The Student together with choreographer Onofr...
Resisterhood
Released on: 2020-08-23
Documentary
Resisterhood is a film about the power of women, hope and resistance in modern American politics. Af...
The Corporation
Released on: 2003-09-10
Documentary
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...
No Name Stars
Released on: 2011-05-12
Documentary
This year is the 30th anniversary of the Gwangju Democratization Movement. Though the country commem...
Red Taxi
Released on: 2021-03-16
Documentary
An anonymous, authentic video secretly filmed from taxi windows captures fragments of violence right...