Browse Films

Subject: Human Rights & Global Concerns

A Day's Work, A Day's Pay

A Day's Work, A Day's Pay

by Jonathan Skurnik and Kathy Leichter

Three welfare recipients transform their lives through their fight against workfare

A Hard Straight

A Hard Straight

by Goro Toshima

Walking out of the prison gates is just the beginning

Another Side of Peace

Another Side of Peace

by Ellen Frick and Gretchen Burger

Grief, Reconciliation and Hope

Ask Not

Ask Not

by Johnny Symons

They went into the closet to serve their country. Now they're coming out to challenge it.

Children in No Man's Land

Children in No Man's Land

by Anayansi Prado

A documentary that uncovers the plight of unaccompanied immigrant minors entering the United States.

Dirty Secrets: Jennifer, Everardo & the CIA in Guatemala

Dirty Secrets: Jennifer, Everardo & the CIA in Guatemala

by Pat Goudvis

Exposing CIA complicity in Guatemalan human rights violations

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Father Roy: Inside the School of the Assassins

Father Roy: Inside the School of the Assassins

by Robert Richter

The CIA's and the Pentagon's secret torture training revealed.

Five Days to Change the World

Five Days to Change the World

by Robert Richter

Students at the largest world peace conference in history take charge of their own destiny

Freedom Machines

Freedom Machines

by Richard Cox & Janet Cole and Jamie Stobie

YOU WILL NEVER SEE DISABILITY THE SAME WAY AGAIN

Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Palestinian Family

Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Palestinian Family

by Joan Mandell and PeA Holmquist, Pierre Bjorklund

The impact of war on a Palestinian family

The Global Assembly Line

The Global Assembly Line

by Lorraine Gray

The powerful story of working women and men linked in our new global economy and the business decisions behind it, Emmy Award winner.

Golden Venture

Golden Venture

by Peter Cohn

Three hundred undocumented Chinese immigrants sail into a 1993 tragedy that becomes a crucial turning point in US immigration history.

Home to Tibet

Home to Tibet

by Lisa Merton

A Tibetan refugee returns to his occupied homeland

How to Prevent a Nuclear War

How to Prevent a Nuclear War

by Liane Brandon

An upbeat practical guide to effective grassroots organizing.

Hungry For Profit

Hungry For Profit

by Robert Richter

Is Third World famine the price we're paying for our food?

If the Mango Tree Could Speak

If the Mango Tree Could Speak

by Pat Goudvis

Ten children ages 12 to 15 share their experiences growing up in the midst of war in Guatemala and El Salvador

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In Our Water

In Our Water

by Meg Switzgable

Defines the terrifying chemical waste problems in America.

The Insular Empire

The Insular Empire

by Vanessa Warheit

What is it like to be a colonial subject of the greatest democracy on earth?

It Happens to Us

It Happens to Us

by Amalie Rothschild

The classic film plea for legal abortion

La Caminata

La Caminata

by Jamie Meltzer

Revealing the other side of the immigration debate.

Living Broke in Boom Times: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty

Living Broke in Boom Times: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty

by Paco de Onis and Peter Kinoy, Pamela Yates, Kathleen Dara Kell

Lessons from the movement to end poverty: the hidden story of poor people organizing in America.

The Long Road Home

The Long Road Home

by Andrea Leland

The odyssey of a young Guatemalan Maya refugee.

Men Are Human, Women Are Buffalo

Men Are Human, Women Are Buffalo

by Joanne Hershfield

Lifting the veil of silence that has long surrounded domestic violence in Thailand

The Most Distant Places

The Most Distant Places

by Mike Seely

A small team of Ecuadorian doctors expanding the possibilities of rural health for their own people.

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The Optimists

The Optimists

by Jacky Comforty

The story of the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust 

Our Disappeared (Nuestros Desaparecidos)

Our Disappeared (Nuestros Desaparecidos)

by Juan Mandelbaum

A personal journey to Argentina's dark history of "disappearing" political activists

Pidgin: the Voice of Hawai'i

Pidgin: the Voice of Hawai'i

by Marlene Booth

The impact of "English only" policies on students' learning and self esteem

The Reckoning

The Reckoning

by Paco de Onis and Pamela Yates and Peter Kinoy

The Battle for the International Criminal Court

Seoul Train

Seoul Train

by Jim Butterworth & Lisa Sleeth and Aaron Lubarsky

SEOUL TRAIN is the definitive exposé into the growing North Korean refugee crisis that threatens to undermine the stability of East Asian peace.

The Shrimp

The Shrimp

by Keith Wilson

Tracing an environmentally threatened seafood from source to plate and back again.

Sita, a Girl from Jambu

Sita, a Girl from Jambu

by Kathleen Man

Rural Nepalese community seeks to prevent child sex trafficking and raise awareness about HIV/AIDS through street theater.

Song of the Canary

Song of the Canary

by Josh Hanig (1952-1998)

The powerful story of the hidden dangers in the American workplace.

Special Circumstances

Special Circumstances

by Marianne Teleki and H?ctor Salgado

Special Circumstances follows former political prisoner, H?ctor Salgado, back to Chile to confront his perpetrators.

State of Fear: The Truth About Terrorism

State of Fear: The Truth About Terrorism

by Paco de Onis and Pamela Yates and Peter Kinoy

Based on the work of Peru's Truth Commission, State of Fear dramatizes the human and societal costs a democracy faces when it wages a 'war on terror'.

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Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

by Lisa Merton and Alan Dater

How the simple act of women planting trees changed a nation...

Vietnam: The Secret Agent

Vietnam: The Secret Agent

by Jacki Ochs

The definitive exposé of the consequences of America's wartime use of Agent Orange in Vietnam

View From A Grain Of Sand

View From A Grain Of Sand

by Meena Nanji

Three Afghan women tell how international interventions, war, and the rise of political Islam, has stripped Afghan women of basic rights.

Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam

Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam

by Lynne Sachs and Dana Sachs

Two American sisters reflect on both the war and contemporary life in Vietnam

Wings of Defeat

Wings of Defeat

by Linda Hoaglund and Risa Morimoto

Once we were Kamikaze...

Witness To War

Witness To War

by Paco de Onis and Deborah Shaffer, David Goodman

One man's journey of conscience from war to peace.

Writ Writer

Writ Writer

by Susanne Mason

How a self-taught Texas prisoner sparked statewide prison reform.

Writings On the Wall

Writings On the Wall

by Angad Bhalla and Siddhartha Luther

The hopes and dreams of India's film poster artists.