Human Rights

Prison and execution, women's rights around the world, environmental catastrophe, war, and more are explored here: stories of human suffering and the fight to end it.

Featured Films

All Films About Human Rights

The Art of Exile

Three short films reveal the unbreakable spirit of artists defying censorship, imprisonment, and exile through creativity and courage.

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Expanding Sanctuary

An immigrant mother’s fight sparks a community’s battle against ICE

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Farming While Black

"The film uplifts the rising generation of Black farmers reclaiming their rightful ownership to land and reconnecting with their ancestral roots. "

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Amma's Pride

With her mother’s support, a trans woman fights for legal and societal acceptance of her marriage in India.

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Borderland | The Line Within

The United States border is not just a geographical location - the border is everywhere.

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Whose Water?

Across the United States, millions of people lack access to safe, affordable water and sanitation.

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America's Family

On Thanksgiving, ICE separates the Diaz family while the community fights for them to find their way back together.

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What These Walls Won't Hold

Incarcerated at San Quentin during the COVID-19 outbreak, a filmmaker chronicles his journey.

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Children of Las Brisas

As Venezuela collapses, three struggling young musicians chase their dreams.

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Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

The story of one secretive hedge fund that is plundering American newspapers and the journalists who are fighting back.

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Las Abogadas: Attorneys on the Front Lines of the Migrant Crisis

For a group of extraordinary women who practice immigration law, the refugee crisis is a call to action they can't ignore.

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Once Removed

A trip to China reveals a family’s complicated political past.

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Human Rights

Featured Films

Whose Water?

The Search

Massacre River: The Woman Without a Country

Hurdle

Man on Fire

500 Years

When the Mountains Tremble

Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Palestinian Family

Granito

Home to Tibet

Hungry For Profit

Our Disappeared / Nuestros Desaparecidos

The Reckoning

Sita: A Girl from Jambu

Special Circumstances

State of Fear

The Ultimate Wish: Ending the Nuclear Age

War Don Don

All Films About Human Rights

The Art of Exile

Expanding Sanctuary

Farming While Black

Amma's Pride

Borderland | The Line Within

Whose Water?

America's Family

What These Walls Won't Hold

Children of Las Brisas

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

Las Abogadas: Attorneys on the Front Lines of the Migrant Crisis

Once Removed

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