Human Rights
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Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America
Based on the landmark book, HARVEST OF EMPIRE, by award-winning journalist Juan González.More Information -
Living Along the Fenceline
The U.S. has 1,000 bases worldwide. The Pentagon says they make us secure. These women disagree.More Information -
America a.k.a. Amerika (Newsreel #)
Against the background of the escalation of the war in Vietnam, AMERICA documents the development of the anti-war movement on the home front.More Information -
Infiltrators
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.More Information -
La Cocina de las Patronas
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.More Information -
Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides
Three journalists trace their mothers’ tumultuous journey in new film about WWII Japanese war brides.More Information -
Invisible Roots: Afro-Mexicans in Southern California
INVISIBLE ROOTS is an intimate look at Afro-Mexicans living in Southern California as they discuss complex issues of racial, national and cultural identities.More Information -
The Chinatown Files
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.More Information -
Pig Power (Newsreel #23)
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".More Information -
If You Could Walk In My Shoes
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.More Information -
Bad Friday: Rastafari After Coral Gardens
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.More Information -
Four Days in May: Kingston 2010
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.More Information -
Tunisian Women: We Will Stand Up
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.More Information -
Enemy Alien
A Palestinian activist’s fight for freedom draws a Japanese American filmmaker into confrontation with detention regimes of past and present.More Information -
Keep Saray Home
In the outskirts of Boston, three Southeast Asian families face the impending threat of deportation.More Information -
Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor
A street vendor, mother and activist from Guatemala makes $40 a day in New york City, one of the wealthiest cities in the world.More Information -
Imelda Is Not Alone
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.More Information -
Animal Appetites
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.More Information -
Fuera Yanqui (Newsreel #)
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.More Information -
I'm Free Now, You Are Free
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.More Information -
El Culebrero, La Muerte de un Colombiano y el Acordeonista Que No Esta
This video presents the transient aspects of the gay Colombian experience in New York City.More Information -
Deported
DEPORTED follows members of a unique group of outcasts in Haiti: criminal deportees from North America.More Information -
Claiming Our Voice
In CLAIMING OUR VOICE, female, immigrant domestic workers bring their stories of survival, empowerment and activism to center stage.More Information -
Riot-Control Weapons (Newsreel #9)
A visual presentation of some of the weapons that the police were using in uprisings around the country in the late 60s.More Information -
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Student Movement in Indonesia: 15 Years Later
To mark the 15th anniversary of the 1998 student movement in Indonesia, filmmaker Tino Saroengallo interviews former leaders of the student movement.More Information -
Taxi-vala/Auto-Biography
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.More Information -
Trans Lives Matter! Justice for Islan Nettles
A powerful document of a community vigil for Islan Nettles, a Transgender Womyn of Color who was beaten to death in 2013.More Information -
Sanctuary: An Expression of Conscience
Refugees of the Salvadoran Civil War flee persecution and death only to be denied sanctuary under the U.S. Refugee Act.More Information -
Race Against Prime Time
An award winning documentary about TV news and racial conflict in Miami.More Information -
Radio Haiti
New York's Haitian community take it to the bridge to protest a year of mortal policing.More Information -
Gay Cuba
“Gay Cuba” casts a hopeful light on efforts to reform and to humanize a society often maligned for its calcified rigidity.More Information -
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A series of three short documentary films created by a group of immigrant and first generation women.More InformationSold out -
The Way North: Maghrebi Women in Marseille
From Marseille come the stories of North African women making new lives for themselves in tense, complex, contemporary France.More Information -
Little Immigrants
LITTLE IMMIGRANTS is an insider's look into child smuggling captured from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.More Information -
Injustice
The struggles for justice by the families of people that have died in police custody.More Information -
In My Genes
Documentary about the harsh realities of living with Albinism in Kenya.More Information -
I Call Myself Persian: Iranians in America
Iranian-Americans speak of how their identities are affected by being made to feel like outsiders in a country they now call home.More Information -
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From Asia With Love
A critical look at the proliferation of the mail-order bride industry in Asia and its representations of Asian women in the West.More Information -
Flow
FLOW is a multi-layered investigation of contemporary political, cultural and psychological dislocations.More Information -
Floristas
Floristas are immigrant flower vendors who scratch out a living by hawking their wares on the streets of New York City.More Information -
Dreaming Rivers
This short fiction piece explores the thoughts and dreams of a middle-aged Afro-Caribbean immgrant in England on her deathbed.More Information -
Among the First to Die
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,"More Information -
A Refutation of Time
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.More Information -
A Week with Azar
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.More Information -
Birth of a Nation: 4*29*1992
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.More Information -
#Bars4Justice a.k.a. Bars4Justice
Hip-Hop activists give more than their talent when they come face to face with the justice system in Ferguson, Missouri.More Information -
Black & White
The power of visualizing the meaning of the words “Black & White”.More Information -
...and Justice For Whom?
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.More Information
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