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.

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.

Depicting a life that spanned three revolutions, three continents, and three wars, the film charts Ho Chi Minh's progression from militant student to leader of Vietnam's revolutionary independence movement.

Beverly Singer from the Santa Clara Tewa Pueblo muses aloud about history, personal and national, marks moments of regret and of insight in her life.

In this humorous video, five women talk about menstruation, masturbation and ejaculation.

Vietnamese women played a crucial role in the Vietnam War.

A DREAM IS WHAT YOU WAKE UP FROM explores the role of Black families in American society.

The Abrew family has been based in Scotland since the end of the 19th century and worked in Vaudeville, theater, and later, in film made throughout Europe where they faced racial discrimination and exoticization as performers for primarily white audiences.

Aymara filmmaker Lourdes Rivas fears that her sole grandson will forget their Indigenous language and tradition.

Yene, a fishing village on the coast of Senegal, has been besieged by coastal erosion and uncontrolled urbanization in recent decades. Local fishermen, pebble collectors, and filmmaker Manthia Diawara address how they collectively and unknowingly contribute to undermining their shared environment.

Revealing Portrait of Canadian leader Lincoln Alexander.

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

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

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

Set in the London home of an Indian family on the morning of their daughter's wedding, this film is a wry depiction of one of the most central of Indian traditions -- the arranged marriage.

A student from the Large Midwestern University receives an unusual e-mail message about the nature of time, tango singer Carlos Gardel, the humorist Will Rodgers, and writer Jorge Luis Borges.

After a one-night affair, a Latina’s examines her heritage in the context of passion and the erotic.

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

Scenes from both sides of the Salvadorian Civil War: U.S. advisors with government troops on one side and guerrilla fighters and their supporters on the other.

A portrait of nine years of revolutionary war and counterinsurgency in El Salvador.

Azar, an Iranian computer engineer living in the United States, failed to see her ill sister in Isfahan (Iran) for the last time because of the Executive Order 13769.

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.

AFRO-PUNK, the movie that sparked the movement!

Granted rare access to Ndeup, a spiritual healing ceremony practiced by Lebou peoples in Senegal, filmmaker and writer Manthia Diawara wonders what connections can be made between the possession ritual and Western logic and technology.

An experimental video about the word-blindness condition.

Documentary on Female Breakdancers

Vietnamese American blind musician Nguyen Duc Dat faces oppression on many levels: language and cultural differences, immigrant and lower income status, and societal misunderstanding and alienation.

Against the background of the escalation of the war in Vietnam, AMERICA documents the development of the anti-war movement on the home front.

This is the story of one of the first American casualties of the War against Terror - Lance Corporal Jose Gutierrez, a 28-year-old Guatemalan, who joined the Marines because "he wanted to give back a little bit to his adopted country,"

In his first trip to the city, Sinchi faces deceit, violence and rejection from strangers and from his long lost brother, Antonio.

An engaging overview of Angola's social and economic landscape using scenes of everyday life in Angola and interviews from Angolans themselves.

Michael Cho's biting critique on popular cultural stereotypes centers on the case of two Cambodian immigrants tried in California on charges of slaughtering their pet dog for food.

A Documentary Film about Multiracial Identity

Through found photographs, audiotaped interviews and archival footage, ANOTHER BROTHER tells the story of Vietnam veteran Clarence Fitch.

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.

This film gives a general outline of the kinds of work being done in The Boston-Cambridge area by National Resist and the New England Resistance.

Gio misses the #6 train which too frequently bypasses his Spanish Harlem stop. One missed train means public humiliation by his teacher, suspension from school, and harassment by a cop.

Capitalizing on the popularity of Hip-Hop, social worker and longtime B-boy Stephen Leafloor has been bringing positive Hip-Hop workshops to Northern Canada. 5 days, 2 cultures, 1 beat

Shot in 1969, this film documents the building anger of draftees in the U.S. military and the growth of the anti-war movement within the military.

Dance film showcasing Trinidadian Traditional Orisha Song and Dance

Interviews with eleven "Asian Boys" are intercut with images of "fish out of water" in Chinatown and footage from the Miss Universe contest in the Philippines to reveal their underlying ideas about race and identity.

With testimony from Lorde's colleagues, students and friends, this film documents Audre Lorde's lasting legacy in Germany.

Struggle for self-governance on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua.

Keisha Johnson, an African American soldier, goes AWOL in Iraq after she flees a violent incident.

A documentary about the 1963 Coral Gardens “incident,” a moment just after independence when the Jamaican government rounded up, jailed and tortured hundreds of Rastafarians.

Joyful, raw, revolutionary: "Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo" tells the remarkable story of queer Filipnxs who, in the 1990s, against a racist, lesbophobic backdrop, came together for the first time in NYC to create a safe and loving community.

A short film about pre-partum depression, its symptoms, and the difficulties it poses when a woman is going through extreme physical and emotional changes.

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.

BEYOND THE BRICKS follows two African American students as they struggle to stay on track in the Newark public school system.

After criminal charges were dropped against four Los Angeles police officers accused in the brutal beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles erupted. This video offers a rare view of the rebellion that began within minutes of the verdict.

The power of visualizing the meaning of the words “Black & White”.

A queer oddball seeks approval from Black peers despite a serious lack of hip-hop credentials. This short animated documentary takes you on a quest for belonging.

A compelling document of the Black Panther Party leadership in 1967.

The Hip-Hop Christian movement has been uplifting youth by delivering positive religious messages that are not about drugs, sex, or hate but of hope and peace.

Captures a lively summit in Havana between Toronto dub poet d’bi.young, exiled American activist Nehanda Abiodun, and feminist Cuban hip-hop trio Las Krudas.

This short film illuminates the African-American experience by lyrically interweaving spoken-word narration of Margaret Walker’s epic poem, “For My People” with contemporary images and rare 19th century cyanotypes (blue photographic prints known as “blueprints”) of African Americans.

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.

Victoria, Mariana and Vasco are three young Mozambicans with physical disabilities living in Maputo, Mozambique’s capital city.

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

BOYS OF SUMMER is an inspiring documentary about Curaçao's Little League Team.

A portrait of the FMLN's Rafael Arce Zablah Brigade (BRAZ), the rebel army, and its development in the context of Salvadoran history.

In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the city.

A celebration of women who have committed themselves to midwifery amidst powerful misconceptions about the practice and virulent opposition from practitioners of Western medicine.

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

The most famous calypso artists invite you to return to the roots of Caribbean music.

Calypso like you’ve never heard before.

Two videos use footage compiled from over 40 social justice media productions to chronicle the perspectives of political prisoners and war within the United States.

The documentary examines the concept of African identity as it has evolved over the generations in Trinidad & Tobago.

What if we could change the world by changing the way babies are born? Shot in El Paso, Texas, CATCHING BABIES tells the stories of mothers and midwives on the journey to bring life into the world.

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.

This fascinating film presents the meditations of a Black lesbian grappling with the memory of an attack that makes her wary about being out on the street.

The film shows how community-run childcare centers are a step toward liberation, by giving parents and children a chance to develop relationships with their peers and new relationships with each other.

This film portrays the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia, documenting the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. Chircales offers the viewer an intimate look at their hardships.

An intimate look at a journey made by ordinary Americans to provide humanitarian aid to Nicaragua during the U.S.- sponsored Contra war and economic embargo.

A visit to the Challa Grande community, an ayllu, in the Cochabamba region. Felicia, a young Quechua woman, examines the characteristics and significance of her ayllu's traditional clothing.

In CLAIMING OUR VOICE, female, immigrant domestic workers bring their stories of survival, empowerment and activism to center stage.

COLOR SCHEMES uses the cycles of a generic laundromat washing machine as a metaphor to tackle misconceptions about racial assimilation.

Five women, including FMLN Commander Lilian Mercedes Letona "Clelia", speak about their imprisonment after they are released from the Women's Prison of Ilopango when the Salvadoran government declared a general amnesty for political prisoners in 1983.

In 1968, under intensive community pressure from Black and Latino communities, the State of New York chose three New York City school districts to become part of an experiment in community-run education.

An empowering fiction film about women’s property rights and domestic violence.

Sickness does not discriminate. Why should healthcare?

A young woman moves to New York City from the Midwest to develop her writing. Distracted from her new creative lifestyle, she is soon challenged by her best friend to work harder to foster her own growth as an artist.

4K Restoration! This documentary film highlights the experience of Black Cuban American family, revealing that the Cuban-American experience is more diverse, racially and ideologically, than we are often led to believe.

A documentary about the role of the French Creoles in Trinidad and Tobago, including the Catholic church, the French and Patois (Creole) languages, educational institutions, family values and the impact of racism, prejudice and cultural stereotypes.

The journey of West Indian rotis across three continents.

DAUGHTERS OF MOTHER INDIA reveals the aftermath of the horrific rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi in December 2012.

DEMARCATIONS uses the female body as a landscape to explore memories of a rape.

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

DEPORTED follows members of a unique group of outcasts in Haiti: criminal deportees from North America.

Two mismatched drifters, Jim and James, are on a voyage discovering the contours of homo/hetero, red/white, personal/political, textual/metatextual in an experimental narrative feast.

From the ashes of four decades of war, AIDS and corruption in Uganda, The Bataka Squad artists, Babaluku and Saba Saba, rise to forge a revolutionary path using music.

A wonderfully comedic look at how Trinidadians give (or don’t give) directions.

Feature-length documentary, uncovering the timely story of Indian healthcare and the Indian Health Service, told from the Native American prospective.

This short fiction piece explores the thoughts and dreams of a middle-aged Afro-Caribbean immgrant in England on her deathbed.

Exposes the little known story of Sakia Gunn, a 15 year old student who was fatally stabbed in a gay hate crime in Newark, NJ.

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

“Every diaspora is the passage from unity to multiplicity.” Manthia Diawara’s 2009 conversations with Édouard Glissant detail the latter’s theory of Relation and the concept of Tout-monde.

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.

This video presents the transient aspects of the gay Colombian experience in New York City.

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.

Through found footage and portraits of local artists and activists the film is a playful journey into the complex layers of the US occupation of Puerto Rico.

A videotape of a live performance--a mythopoetic rendering of the original encounters between African, Indigenous and European peoples in the present day "border regions".

A Palestinian activist’s fight for freedom draws a Japanese American filmmaker into confrontation with detention regimes of past and present.

A moving video essay about motherhood and mourning.

A realistic view of a 12-year-old African American girl's voyage through early adolescence, peer pressure, friendship and love.

This videotape is a meditation on contemporary race relations.

Three journalists trace their mothers’ tumultuous journey in new film about WWII Japanese war brides.

Olga Nenya is a foster mother to sixteen Black orphans in Ukraine - where 99.9% of the population is white and where race matters.

Through Hip-Hop music and Afro-Brazilian dance, musician Anderson Sá rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police.

Felix the Cat goes on strike!

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.

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.

Floristas are immigrant flower vendors who scratch out a living by hawking their wares on the streets of New York City.

FLOW is a multi-layered investigation of contemporary political, cultural and psychological dislocations.

Independent Hip-Hop artists from large and small cities talk about their creative work and their increasingly widening influence in Chinese society.

Grenada 1983. Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and a number of his colleagues were machine-gunned to death. Their bodies were never found.

In this award-winning collection, Charell, Ashley, and Camilla share their deeply personal stories about their experiences in foster care and how it impacted their lives.

Anti-war statement by four American soldiers who deserted the Army during the Vietnam War in 1967.

In 2010 Jamaican military and police forces declared a state of emergency in West Kingston to apprehend Christopher “Dudus” Coke—who had been ordered for extradition to the U.S. At least 75 civilians died as a result. This doc juxtaposes the harrowing testimonies of the survivors with footage from the U.S. drone that was surveilling the operation from above.

Grassroots Colombian Hip-Hop is shaped by Colombian folk music as well as the suppressed voices of the Colombian masses.

A critical look at the proliferation of the mail-order bride industry in Asia and its representations of Asian women in the West.

This film provides a short history of the Dominican Republic and an analysis of the control exerted on its economic structure by U.S. interests.

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.

“Gay Cuba” casts a hopeful light on efforts to reform and to humanize a society often maligned for its calcified rigidity.

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.