An epic portrait of award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde.

The documentary surveys Puerto Rican history, the Young Lords' activities and philosophy, the torturous end of the organization and its inspiring legacy.

Faced with racial discrimination, deficient community services, and poor education and job opportunities, Puerto Rican communities in New York City began to address these injustices by using direct action.

MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE tells the story of the student-led struggle to win Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY, in the late 1960s.

Produced collectively by women, this documentary is a valuable historical document of the origins of the modern women's movement in the United States.

An epic portrait of award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde.

The U.S. has 1,000 bases worldwide. The Pentagon says they make us secure. These women disagree.

Documents how Jamaica's Sistren Collective theatre uses imporvisation and theatre as a consciousness raising tool among rural and urban working women in Jamaica.

This entertaining short film shows how Women's Liberation activists used guerrilla theater to raise awareness of what Miss America really represents.

To raise the consciousness of New Yorkers, anti-war demonstrators took to the streets on fashionable Fifth Avenue on Christmas Eve.

This documentary provides an in-depth examination of protest activities surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Day after day, for over 20 years, a group of women in Mexico, prepare and give meals to Central American migrants who travel atop La Bestia, a U.S.-bound freight train.

One Peruvian woman’s mission to revive her indigenous language becomes an inspiration for Quechua speakers, a historically marginalized community in New York City.

During a prolonged garbage collector's strike in New York City, a group of youths from the Lower East Side of Manhattan decide to use the situation to make a political statement.

Newsreel's short film shows two days of demonstrations in Berkeley over the issue of "the streets belong to the people" and the decision of the City Council to close off Telegraph Avenue for the 4th of July, 1968. This film features scenes of members of the Young Socialist Alliance, including Peter Camejo, demonstrating their support for the French student movement of May 1968.

This documentary provides an in-depth examination of protest activities surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Felix the Cat goes on strike!

A profile of a grassroots anti-war group in Boston, this short film documents some of the tactics and activities used by draft resistance groups across the country during the Vietnam War.

In 1974, a group of Mohawks reoccupied a part of their ancestral land and proclaimed it Ganienkeh.

Filmed as the official statement of the Youth International Party, this film is as freewheeling and irreverent as the Yippies themselves.

An analysis of how the schools by using the tracking system, exploit and oppress people in terms of class origins and how students can begin to organize.

During World War II, 12,000 Japanese Americans dared to resist the U.S. government's program of mass incarceration.

THE THROWAWAYS is a timely and provocative look at the impact of mass incarceration and police brutality on black males in America. Recommended by Video Librarian Magazine.

Everyone deserves the best defense. They fight for it. GIDEON’S ARMY takes an inside look at the criminal justice system from the perspective of three young public defenders in the South.

In Moloka’I, a group of Hawaiian residents oppose the biotech industry's use of their land to test genetically engineered seeds and work to restore ancient Hawaiian farming practices.

The San Francisco Haight community fights in the streets to defend their culture against brutal police oppression.

Three US. militaray veterans work to heal their wounds and battle with PTSD resulting from their deployments in Iraq.

In April 1970, telecom workers from multiple unions across New York City engaged in a wildcat strike to secure better pay and improve working conditions.

Salvadorian teenager Imelda Cortez's only hope at freedom is a local citizen’s movement that dares to defend women who are persecuted under El Salvador's total ban on abortion. The result is a shocking account of an ongoing human rights crisis and a moving portrait of those who fight for a better society.

Spurred by the U.S. government's plan to expand military bases in Pyeongtaek city, a war is being waged against the farmers of the South Korean village of Daechuri.

In the wake of climate change, a new social movement emerges in Puerto Rico to protest austerity measures imposed by US colonial forces.

A short newsreel showing the grassroots organizing efforts of the East Coast Panthers as they attempted to implement community-based social programs while simultaneously battling severe harassment from local and federal authorities.

Formed on the Lower East Side of New York to side step high prices, poor quality, and weight cheating of local supermarkets.

Filmed in Baltimore during the support demonstrations for the nine catholics who were on trial for napalming the 1-A Draft files in Catonsville, Maryland.

Bobby Seale, a member of the Black Panthers, talks about his treatment as a political prisoner and his involvement in the Black Liberation and anti-war movements.

A SONG FOR OURSELVES is an intimate journey into the life and music of Asian American Movement troubadour Chris Iijima.

Berkeley students organized a mass sit-in and a building take-over after the State Regents refused to allow Elridge Cleaver to teach Political Science 139X for credit.

Voices of 1960s Black Montréal rise through unseen archives.

SALTY DOG BLUES looks at a group of U.S.merchant marines from 1937-1989; their relationship to the National Maritime Union, a union merger, and a dispute over lost health benefits.

Refugees of the Salvadoran Civil War flee persecution and death only to be denied sanctuary under the U.S. Refugee Act.

Saints Rising is a documentary presenting the voices of New Orleans years after Hurricane Katrina and the breech of the levees.

A shocking exposé of how a group of ordinary citizens, passionate about the future of their legendary neighborhood, are systematically shut out of the city’s decision-making process.

New York's Haitian community take it to the bridge to protest a year of mortal policing.

On a crumbling sidewalk in the heart of Spanish Harlem, a small but impassioned group of women are fighting for their community.

To mark the 15th anniversary of the 1998 student movement in Indonesia, filmmaker Tino Saroengallo interviews former leaders of the student movement.

A documentary that connects the Lesbian and Gay Marriage Equality movement with the Black Civil Rights Movement.

From Marseille come the stories of North African women making new lives for themselves in tense, complex, contemporary France.

A film shot in Cuba in 1970-1971 about two brigades of 500 Americans that went to Cuba in order to show support by breaking the blockade and to help with the sugar harvest of ten million tons.

Fifth-generation shopkeepers Mei Lum and Gary Lum speak to how their work exists as everyday resistance to gentrification and creates sustained community in the heart of New York City.

New updated version includes footage of New York State Governor David Paterson signing the 2010 Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights.

Young Turkish rappers, DJs, break-dancers, and graffiti artists creatively blend foreign cultural influences with their local cultural values and traditions.

MOTHER follows labor activist Lee So-seon, who for over 40 years organized for workers’ rights in South Korea.

In 2005, D-Q University, California’s only tribal college, was shut down after a 35-year struggle, but its supporters fight to hold on to a dream that was never fully realized.

Activist and poet Walidah Imarisha traveled to New Orleans and other neighboring towns shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area. Through interviews with residents, activists and city officials, Imarisha succinctly captured the pain, loss and hope of the people of New Orleans.

This film explores the transformative role of Hip-Hop in politics in Senegal during the 2007 presidential election campaign.

A series of 16 shorts on how NYC communities of color view their "State of America" and what they're doing to make changes.

In the early 2000s, San Francisco's dot-com boom brought a disastrous tidal wave of gentrification, which changed the city's landscape forever.

Hip-Hop activists give more than their talent when they come face to face with the justice system in Ferguson, Missouri.

After the attacks on September 11th, 2001, new laws ostensibly geared towards domestic security will affect various communities in the United States and throughout the world.

Sickness does not discriminate. Why should healthcare?