How to Start a Revolution

How to Start a Revolution
Movie poster showing close-up of Gene Sharp's face, with title "How to Start a Revolution", and list of awards.
Directed byRuaridh Arrow
Written byRuaridh Arrow
Produced byRichard Shaw[1]
Cailean Watt, assistant producer
James Otis, executive producer
StarringGene Sharp
Jamila Raqib
Colonel Robert "Bob" Helvey
Srđa Popović
Ahmed Maher
Ausama Monajed
CinematographyPhilip Bloom[1]
Edited byMike Crozier[1]
Lorrin Braddick
Distributed byTVF International[2]
Release date
  • 18 September 2011 (2011-09-18)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryScotland
LanguageEnglish

How to Start a Revolution is a BAFTA Scotland Award-winning British documentary film about Nobel Peace Prize nominee and political theorist Gene Sharp, described as the world's foremost scholar on nonviolent revolution. The 2011 film describes Sharp's ideas and their influence on popular uprisings around the world. Screened in cinemas and television in more than 22 countries it became popular among the Occupy Wall Street Movement.[3] A book of the documentary, Gene Sharp: How to Start a Revolution, was released in October 2020.[4]

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  3. ^ Flintoff, John-Paul (3 January 2013). "Gene Sharp: The Machiavelli of non-violence". New Statesman. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  4. ^ Arrow, Ruaridh (2020). Gene Sharp How to Start a Revolution. United Kingdom: Big Indy Books. ISBN 979-8686588257.