Stories of Single Black Mothers.

This short film offers a rare look at Noam Chomsky in the late 1960s as he speaks candidly about the war in Vietnam and articulates critiques that have an eerie resonance in the present day.

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

In 1943, 300 middle-class “coloured” women from across the West Indies were recruited to the ATS, a branch of the British Army during WW2.

Filmed in Palestine by Newsreel, REVOLUTION UNTIL VICTORY shows the refugee camps of the Middle East, the rise of the Palestinian Liberation Movement and Israel's relationship to Western imperialism.

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.

A visual presentation of some of the weapons that the police were using in uprisings around the country in the late 60s.

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

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.

A documentary of the now famous San Francisco State strike of 1968-69.

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

Shot in Philadelphia, this documentary features the work of female Hip-Hop artists Lady B, Schoolly D, Rennie Harris, Bahamadia, and Ursula Rucker.

An interview with a veteran of the Mujahedeen from the Soviet war in Afghanistan provides a revealing look at the relationship between personal conviction and global politics.

Toni Blackman and the FreeStyle Union are challenging the male-dominated world of Hip-Hop and empowering women to speak their minds in freestyle workshops.

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

What happens when talent isn’t enough?

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

A treasure trove of rescued tapes revives the golden age of reggae music and reveals the fascinating story behind one of Jamaica’s most legendary recording studios, Randy’s Studio 17.

A series of short videos made by Mandarin-speaking seniors living in Flushing, Queens, during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The videos showcase their filmmaking abilities and their strength and willingness to share their fears and sorrows during the health crisis.

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

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

A very different look at the Middle Passage

A look at the complexities of migration, displacement, economic empowerment, and the pursuit of the elusive "American dream" within New York's growing South Asian communities.

Every day 500,000 people from 117 different countries ride a subway that runs from Flushing to Times Square, going through Queens, the most culturally diverse region in the United States.

"The #1 Bus Chronicles" uses a small sociological microcosm – a bus stop on an industrial highway in New Jersey – to intimately portray some of the most marginalized lives in America today - the ‘working poor’, the recently incarcerated, and immigration asylum seekers.

In this documentary, filmmaker Tracy Assing makes a personal exploration of her roots as a member of the Santa Rosa Carib Community based in Arima.

More than 20,000 Latino families were displaced to make way for Lincoln Center, home to the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Symphony.

This documentary presents the roots and legacy of the Cold War on the Chinese American community during the 1950s and the 1960s, it presents first-hand accounts of seven men and women's experiences of being hunted down, jailed and targeted for deportation in America.

An analysis of the ecological crisis, this film dispells the myths that big business and big government had been telling the people about the global ecological crisis.

A coming-of-age story about the friendship between two young Black girls growing up in 1957 Harlem, Phyllisia Cathy from a newly arrived, upwardly mobile Caribbean family, and Edith Jackson, Harlem-born and raised.

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

Making Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago.

After living with relatives in fast-paced Lagos City, Nigeria, 14-year-old Amarachi returns to her home village to live with her mother Ikechi for the first time in eight years. When Ikechi learns Amarachi is pregnant due to rape, the pair begins an emotional journey to heal from their individual and collective traumas, save what is left of their estranged relationship, and learn to live as a family.

A series of three short documentary films created by a group of immigrant and first generation women.

The 20-year journey of an unlikely band of activists who take an ancient music from the hills of Haiti and reinvent it on the streets of Brooklyn.

Why do neighbors fight? Why do citizens of Greece and Turkey experience mutual dislike and distrust?

The implications of youth, poverty, gangs and gun violence.

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.

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

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

During the winter of 1969, the New York Transit Authority increased the public transportation fee fare from 20 cents to 30 cents--a 50% increase. Infuriated riders scrambled under turnstiles and through exit doors, refusing to pay the fare.

This experimental short humorously and powerfully explores women's body imagery.

This short youth-produced animation exposes homophobia to the tune of "Three Blind Mice".

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

Jonathan (“Pollo”) and Enrique (“Gordo”) are 14-year old orphans making their own living on the streets of Tijuana, the busiest frontier city in the world.

Three Black queer individuals reflect on their connections to their ancestors. Inspired by Sakia Gunn's legacy, the film meditates on grief, death, queerness and ancestorhood.

Aymara filmmaker Reynaldo Yujra follows the Kallawayas, healers and spiritual leaders of the Chari community of La Paz.

The first in a series by the artist addressing Asian/Pacific Islander Gay experiences, this multilevel narrative explores sexuality, identity, tradition and personal recollection through gay Asian storytelling.

Four young indigenous women from Taiwan and Hawai’i share their questions, desires and challenges of learning the language of their forebears—languages that are endangered.

A powerful document of a community vigil for Islan Nettles, a Transgender Womyn of Color who was beaten to death in 2013.

TUNISIAN WOMEN is a powerful record of the work of women activist in Tunisia and a celebration of Tunisia's extraordinary history of activism and resistance against authoritarian rule since the 1970s.

January '69, oil workers in Northern California struck, and for the first time, students at San Francisco State and University of California were asked to join the union in the struggle.

Through letter-writing, a community discussion, and a drag performance, six queer and trans Asian Americans grapple with their queerness and consider what family acceptance might look like.

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

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.

This documentary is a tribute to Wilton Braga, a visionary artist who was one of the first people to be diagnosed with AIDS in Brazil.

A short on the lives and thoughts of people working on the streets of New York City and their relation to the political process during the 2004 presidential election.

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.

This documentary captures the rich legacy of ancient African religions practiced in the United States.

Documents the significant role of Voodoo in Haitian culture from the perspectives of Voodoo priests, government officials, historians and politicians.

VOTING RIGHTS NOW documents the Voting and Human Rights March organized by the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.

For the walkers, talkers and those who say nothing.

The first public television documentary about the experience and impact of WWII on Guam, a US territory since 1898.

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.

An original and visionary work, this cathartic film links the present with the ancestral past.

This humorous and comedic documentary, brings the laughs and dreams of four Indian women cabaret performers while posing the questions: What is comedy and who defines it? Is it culturally specific, or can anyone enjoy the joke? Does comedy always have to come from a white perspective in Britain to be taken seriously?

Weaving a narrative of a jilted lover with footage of a train in motion, this video is a darkly comedic study of the physical, psychological and emotional traumas jilted lovers go through.

WHATEVER IT TAKES follows the amazing first year of a cutting-edge public high school in NYC’s South Bronx.

Dancers from different Indigenous traditions perform "Women and Men are Good Dancers."

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

This film explores a now-obscure American expansionist, William Walker, who through military force and coercion became president of Nicaragua in 1856.

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

A fictional essay on the respresssion of Salvadoran teachers during 1979, before the Salvadoran Civil War broke out.

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

How did a handful of students contribute to the Black Power Movement worldwide, and change the course of history in Trinidad and Tobago?

Lawson Inada's poetry deals with the multicultural experiences of Asian Americans, is interwoven with scenes from his life as he visits the Chicano neighborhood where he grew up, plays with his son, and travels through the streets of downtown Fresno, California with its graffiti, bars and Nisei Barber Shop.