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.

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.

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

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.

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Produced collectively by women, this documentary is a valuable historical document of the origins of the modern women's movement in the United States.

The historic 1971 Attica prison rebellion in upstate New York.

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

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

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

This portrait of New York's Chinatown captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community in the 1970s.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

A documentary film about men raised by single mothers.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

In this documentary about a little-known chapter in African, Asian and French colonial history, Beninese-Vietnamese orphan returns to Vietnam to look for his long-lost mother.

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.

This documentary examines the re-settlement of Southeast Asian refugees in the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Polish Americans of Northside, Brooklyn, organized against the NYC's planned shrinkage tactics to close schools, hospitals, and firehouses.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Voices of 1960s Black Montréal rise through unseen archives.

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.

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.

People of Vieques, Puerto Rico, seek justice and environmental restoration after decades of U.S. Navy military activity on their island.

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

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

In this animated short, a grandmother from the indigenous Guarayo community remembers her rural village and forest before the arrival of lumber companies that profit from the deforestation of the Amazons in Bolivia.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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

Art, labor, and family blend in this intimate film about Latina performance artist Caridad De La Luz, better known as ‘La Bruja’.

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

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.

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.

A Documentary Film about Multiracial Identity

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

An award winning documentary about TV news and racial conflict in Miami.

An intimate portrayal of a migrant woman performing global care work and long-distance motherhood in her role as sole provider for an extended family back in the Philippines.

A look at sexual harassment on the job and other issues that lie just below the surface of everyday life in the workplace.

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

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

This documentary explores the role of art, social activism and Hip-Hop in South Africa’s education system after the end of Apartheid.

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

LITTLE IMMIGRANTS is an insider's look into child smuggling captured from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

This first chapter of LITTLE BROTHER begins a series of films where Black boys start the conversation on a topic they rarely get to discuss: Love.

Filmed in Tucson, Arizona, the young men discuss life in the Southwest and the current state of race relations.

Using the words and music of rapper KRS-1, this video short questions the current wave of multiculturalism in the educational system.

KNOW YOUR ENEMY critiques the mass media's bias against rap music and culture.

Children Living with HIV / AIDS.

The struggles for justice by the families of people that have died in police custody.

Iranian-Americans speak of how their identities are affected by being made to feel like outsiders in a country they now call home.

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

A Native American woman and her young son encounter everyday racism when they visit a local barbershop.

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

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

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

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.