New Delhi, July 28 -- Every now and then, the young remind us that we're alive.

That history has a pulse. This may not always be loud. Sometimes it chants. Sometimes it laughs. Sometimes it simply refuses to go away. The students of India took to the streets to achieve remarkable change in their very own spirited - and inspiring - way. While doffing my old-man hat to these rebels, I thought I would make them a watchlist. A cinematic toolkit, if you will, disguised as a mixtape.

Like these students showed us, through their memes and their messaging, its important not to be obvious. The biopics of revolutionaries and freedom fighters can be important, but also misleading. Protest has never been a one-hero job. Cinema's greatest lessons in...