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.

Based on the landmark book, HARVEST OF EMPIRE, by award-winning journalist Juan González.

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.

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

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.

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

A film about the 1995 groundbreaking conference on lesbian and gay sexualities in the African diaspora.

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.

This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and whites live in a complex world of cotton, labor, and racial conflict.

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

Produced collectively by women, this documentary is a valuable historical document of the origins of the modern women's movement in the United States.

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.

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

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

A very different look at the Middle Passage

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

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

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 is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and whites live in a complex world of cotton, labor, and racial conflict.

"First I was my father's Janie, then I was my Charlie's Janie, now I'm Janie's Janie." --Jane Giese

This film exposes the daily humiliation regularly faced by women in U.S. prisons.

“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.

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

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

Interviews and performances by Puerto Rican musicians in New York illustrate how traditional music has served as mode of resistance of cultural domination.

In October, 1967, 100,000 people marched on Washington to demand an end to the Vietnam War.

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

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.

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

A documentary film about men raised by single mothers.

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.

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

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.

In this moving film, the personal testimonies of Guatemalan Indians, peasants, and guerrillas are dramatized to provide the narration for a powerful overview of the history of U.S. destabilization of democracy in Central America.

A visceral road movie that chronicles the daily travails of Palestinians of all backgrounds as they seek routes through, under, around, and over a bewildering matrix of barriers and border walls in the highly militarized West Bank.

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

"People's War" records the mobilization and participation of the Vietnamese people in their country's fight against colonialism and foreign military aggression.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A fascinating look into the lives and thoughts of seven Queer Pan-Asian Canadians as they look back on the groundbreaking documentary ORIENTATIONS.

More than a dozen men and women of different Asian backgrounds speak frankly about their lives as members of a minority within a minority.

When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families were torn apart.

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.

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

NEGRITA—a Spanish term meaning “little Black girl”—is a personal and probing documentary exploring how anti-Blackness in American and Latino cultures shapes the identities of Afro-Latina women.

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.

As students take to the streets in New York and Berkeley, the state violence that follows illustrates Chicago Mayor Daley's thesis that the police are there "to preserve disorder".

INVISIBLE ROOTS is an intimate look at Afro-Mexicans living in Southern California as they discuss complex issues of racial, national and cultural identities.

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.

HAFU is the unfolding journey of discovery into the intricacies of mixed-race Japanese and their multicultural experience in modern day Japan.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

In April 1971, thousands of G.I.'s came to Washington, D.C., to protest the Vietnam War.

Nuyorican Básquet chronicles the dramatic story of the Puerto Rican national basketball team’s participation in the 1979 Pan American Games.

A loving portrait of Jennifer Miller, a lesbian performer who lives her life with a full beard.

IF YOU COULD WALK IN MY SHOES documents the struggle of an Ecuadorian-American family as they transforms their lives from workers to business owners.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 75-year-old Black trailblazing transgender activist who started a charm school for homeless trans youth and is now aging with joy and grace.

In the outskirts of Boston, three Southeast Asian families face the impending threat of deportation.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

An examination of the Persian Gulf anti-war movement and its scant coverage in the mainstream media.

When a city-run health clinic in the South Bronx fails to meet the needs of the city, local residents and health workers force a strike and then run the clinic themselves.

A street vendor, mother and activist from Guatemala makes $40 a day in New york City, one of the wealthiest cities in the world.

INDOCHINA: TRACES OF A MOTHER documents a little-known chapter in African, Asian and French colonial history.

Nine months after the riot. Malcolm X Memorial Services held at I.S. 201 in New York, March 1968, and scenes from Newark, March 1968.

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.

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

The journey of West Indian rotis across three continents.

Documentary on Female Breakdancers

AFRO-PUNK, the movie that sparked the movement!

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.

Vietnamese women played a crucial role in the Vietnam War.

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.

"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.

Experimental docudrama evokes Sri Lanka's colonial history and the experiences of the post-colonial subject in the diaspora.

The story of Queer Filipnxs who, in the 1990s, against a racist, lesbophobic backdrop, came together to create a safe and loving community in New York City.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

An anti-ROTC film with data demonstrating university complicity with the military, what that military is used for and why the supposedly neutral universities want to keep ROTC on campus.

Dance artists Sita Frederick, Ana "Rokafella" Garcia, and Marion Ramirez collaborate to create a performance work that explores Caribbean and Latina-American experiences through dance.

A rich overview of the development of Afro-Cuban music in the United States, featuring interviews with Mario Bauza and Dizzie Gillespie.

Iranian exile and scholar Hamid Naficy, along with his family in Iran, tell us about the complexities of personal identity and exile in a globalized world.

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

Peter Minshall, Trinidad Carnival Artist.

A short documentary about the reunion and repair between Mike Africa Jr and his mother Debbie Africa—a formerly incarcerated political prisoner of the MOVE9.

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

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

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

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 Documentary Film about Multiracial Identity

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.

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.

Voices of 1960s Black Montréal rise through unseen archives.

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

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.

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

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.

In this docudrama, elders of the San Francisco de Moxos community tell the story of the courageous pioneers who founded their village in the Bolivian Amazons and the indigenous “cabildo”, or neighborhood council, that defended their territory from the influence of outsiders, or “carayanas”.

HEART OF HARLEM traces the life and times of Holcombe Rucker, who founded a summer basketball league while working for New York Citys Parks Department in order to give young people a positive alternative to the streets.

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