How to Start a Revolution

Name: How to Start a Revolution
Genre: Biography, Documentary, News
Released: February 24, 2012
Duration: 85 min

2012

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Seventh Art Releasing | Release Date: February 24, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: How to Start a Revolution reveals the remarkable story of modern revolution, the power of people to change their world and the man behind it all. Quiet, unassuming, soft-spoken and barely known to the wider world, 83 year old Professor Gene Sharp has written the standard textbook for revolutionary leaders around the globe. Used by activistsHow to Start a Revolution reveals the remarkable story of modern revolution, the power of people to change their world and the man behind it all. Quiet, unassuming, soft-spoken and barely known to the wider world, 83 year old Professor Gene Sharp has written the standard textbook for revolutionary leaders around the globe. Used by activists from Serbia to Egypt, from Ukraine to Syria, and now influencing Occupy Wall Street, one of Gene's most important books 'From Dictatorship to Democracy' is nothing less than a handbook of 198 strategic 'weapons' that are used to topple dictators. Banned in many countries, his work has influenced a generation of revolutionary leaders who yearn for democratic freedom in Asia, throughout Eastern Europe, in the Middle East and now here in America. (Seventh Art Releasing)… Expand

Director: Ruaridh Arrow

Genre(s): Biography, Documentary, News

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 85 min

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Stephen Holden

Feb 23, 2012

There is much more to be explored than this noble documentary, made on a tiny budget, has the resources to examine. Read full review

Mark Holcomb

Feb 21, 2012

How to Start a Revolution plays like a Nobel Prize–campaign film and never once demonstrates an understanding of the distinction between encomium and inquiry. Read full review

Joseph Jon Lanthier

Feb 22, 2012

Much of this content, which involves complex social movements in Burma, Iran, and elsewhere, is necessarily abridged, but it's often done so to the point of incoherence, making Gene Sharp's connection to what we're seeing seem contrived. Read full review

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