Kanopy_Documentary_Films

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The Great White Hoax

Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America

Media Education Foundation

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Acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise explores how Donald Trump expertly tapped into long-simmering racial tensions and rode an accelerating wave of white anxiety and grievance straight to the White House.

Rejecting the notion that Trump's racial appeals to white voters during the 2016 campaign somehow represented a break with business as usual, Wise shows how the politics of racial scapegoating have been operative in conservative and establishment Republican circles for decades. He also rejects the notion that the rise of Trump can be explained by the Democratic Party's failure to speak to the economic anxieties of white working-class voters, showing how it was cultural anxiety, more than anything else, that motivated Trump's white supporters.

THE GREAT WHITE HOAX offers a fascinating look at how conservative political leaders and strategists have been tapping into anxieties about cultural change to win the support of white Americans, especially white men, for decades. And it makes a powerful case for why Trumpism, and the politics of racial scapegoating, are destined to fail in the end.

CIA vs KGB- Battleground Berlin

Java Films

For 50 years, Berlin was the symbol of the Cold War. The city at the heart of the intelligence war between the US and the Soviet bloc. Thousands of KGB or CIA agents observed each other, cogs in the biggest information war in history.

But the war between the secret services was one dimension of a much larger conflict. A confrontation that almost boiled over just under the surface of the cold war. Economic pressures, secret diplomacy and espionage were the hallmarks of this hidden war that never turn into armed conflict. An underground war between two institutions, without the knowledge of official diplomacy.

We hear from former CIA and KGB agents and discover the hidden face of the cold war.

Running Time

53 mins

Year

2015

Kanopy ID

1246623

Filmmakers

David Muntaner

Languages

Subjects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q05rMyTzMrM

Timeline - World History Documentaries

Published on Oct 14, 2018

For 50 years, Berlin was the symbol of the Cold War. The city at the heart of the intelligence war between the US and the Soviet bloc. Thousands of KGB or CIA, agents observed each other, cogs in the biggest information war in history. But the war between the secret services was one dimension of a much larger conflict. A confrontation that almost boiled over just under the surface of the cold war. Economic pressures, secret diplomacy and espionage were the hallmarks of this hidden war that never turn into armed conflict. An underground war between two institutions, without the knowledge of official diplomacy. We hear from former CIA and KGB agents and discover the hidden face of the cold war. Content licensed from Java films. Any queries, please contact us at: realstories@littledotstudios.com

Occupation- Native

Biting Back at Australian History

  Ronin Films



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The Aboriginal story has been buried deep beneath the 247-year-old accepted Australian narrative. In OCCUPATION: NATIVE, Aboriginal filmmaker Trisha Morton-Thomas, bites back at Australian history.

Captain James Cook, a hero to most Australians but a thief to Aboriginal people, stole the continent with a British flag. Of course, the Aboriginal people had no idea what Cook was up to. They continued on with their lives, blissfully unaware that their 80,000 year kinship with their lands was about to be tested beyond their worst nightmares.

Aboriginal people fought back against white domination, but numbers and guns were against them. In a long, ugly war, brave men, women and children died in defense of their country, yet the European narrative buried their heroic stand and failed to mention their names and deeds.

But the voices of Black Australia would not be quieted. Their spirit and resilience became a contemporary political issue, and the concept of reconciliation became an ideological mantra. Achieving that goal became a political football for decades, and is still getting a good kick around the park today.

Running Time

53 mins

Year

2017

Kanopy ID

5468803

Filmmakers

Trisha Morton-Thomas

Features

Ian Meadows, Jeremy Ambrum, Justin Smith, Steven Oliver, Trisha Morton-Thomas

Languages

English

Subjects

Documentaries > Ethnicity & Identity

Documentaries > Politics & Current Affairs

Global Studies & Languages > Australian Studies

Social Sciences > History - Modern

Global Studies & Languages > Indigenous Studies

Documentaries > Historical Perspectives

Social Sciences > Political Science

Social Sciences > Race & Class Studies

Documentaries

The Highest Court Behind the Scenes at the High Court of Australia

Film Art Media

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Most Australians know about the Mabo and Wik decisions, but few know much about the decision makers -- The High Court of Australia.

Having gained historic access, THE HIGHEST COURT shows first hand the characters and drama of the High Court of Australia, the pinnacle of legal and constitutional processes in Australia.

The role of the Court is explored as the film follows the handing down of two historic constitutional judgements, Kruger and Ha, and the appointment of two new Justices -- Hayne and Callinan. For the first time cases have been filmed as they actually happen in the Court culminating with the recent Hindmarsh Island Bridge challenge.

Running Time

57 mins

Year

1998

Kanopy ID

4670079

Filmmakers

Daryl Dellora

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Michael Kirby: Don't Forget the Justice Bit

Film Art Media

Michael Kirby was recently listed by the Bulletin magazine as one of the top ten creative minds, then again in the top 100 of the most influential Australians of all time and more recently Who Weekly put him as one of the top 25 of the most beautiful people - certainly a unique honour for a High Court Judge. But Michael Kirby is a unique man. In 36 years as a judge he repeatedly did the one thing that judges are not supposed to do - he spoke publicly on an enormous range of social, political, scientific, economic, religious and humanitarian issues.

He has spoken out again and again, to say he is prolific is a gross understatement. His web-site lists 2338 speeches, all written on top of a full-time job as a judge. Many in the legal profession and the wider community think he speaks too much. Some believe he was unable to keep his personal views out of the courtroom - that he dragged his own personal agendas onto the bench and that he was an "activist judge" trying to change the law rather than simply declaring it. But at different times Kirby's independent position has alienated radicals, progressives and conservatives alike.

Michael Kirby is a complicated man and difficult to characterize in simple terms. He has been described as a monarchist; too radical, too conservative; a parliamentary supremist, a populist; a nationalist, an internationalist; religious, a secularist; and a humanist. And although apparently contradictory he is all at once all these things. Michael Kirby reveals himself in this film through a long-form interview in a way he has never done before. Another contradiction for a man who has been so media friendly throughout his professional life is that, in many ways, he has been intensely private and guarded about his personal life. It was only nine years ago that, at the age of 61, he publicly revealed for the first time that he had been in a homosexual relationship since 1969 with partner Johan van Vloten. Even Kirby's closest colleagues and friends were shocked. Justice Michael McHugh who had known Kirby since the early 1970s and who sat with him on the High Court said "he had no idea there was a long term relationship". This film represents the first time Johan van Vloten has spoken publicly about their life together.

This film shows the public face of Michael Kirby on the High Court, the private face at home with his father Donald, his late mother Jean, his partner Johan and his siblings. It also reveals the spiritual side and his lasting connection to Anglicanism.

Running Time

55 mins

Year

2010

Kanopy ID

1083565

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Subjects

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Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins

New Day Films

Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins.

Through his extraordinary life and daring actions we learn about Fr. Roy Bourgeois and his struggle to find and reveal the truth about the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA), and growing efforts by grassroots activists and Congress to shut it down. PBS "Global Voices" series began re-runs of this documentary in 2009.

In the documentary Fr. Roy -- a Vietnam War hero -- meets three men, each from a different Latin American country, who link SOA to secret torture training. Two were taught torture techniques at SOA. The third, a victim of that training, found an SOA teaching manual on torture.The producer was warned that he will be killed if he reveals the name of one of the trainees or where he was interviewed.

In 1996 the White House Intelligence Oversight Board confirmed the explosive charges revealed in this documentary and the Secretary of Defense at the time declared torture training would never happen again.

Guantanamo and Iraq reflect the different and troubling policies of the Bush era. Under its new name, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, SOA continues. So does the growing campaign by tens of thousands of college students and others to shut SOA.

Running Time

57 mins

Year

1997

Kanopy ID

1144964

Filmmakers

Bob Richter

Languages

Subjects

Social Sciences > Human Rights

Global Studies & Languages > Latin American Studies

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Mr Neal is Entitled to be an Agitato- A documentary film about the late High Court Judge Mr Justice Lionel Murphy

Film Art Media

A documentary film about the late High Court Judge Mr Justice Lionel Murphy, concentrating in particular on the events and allegations of the last four years of his life -- allegations of his supposed misbehaviour.

Murphy was at the centre of an historic battle to retain his position on the High Court. This film uses the dramatic story of Lionel Murphy as a vehicle to consider more fundamental issues about the law, including the problem of police and security surveillance of the individual in Australian society and in particular of prominent political and legal figures. We investigate Murphy's role in introducing many radical legal and political reforms, such as the Family Law Act, The Trade Practices Act and a proposed Bill of Rights.

The role of the media in 'the Murphy affair' is also focussed upon, especially its use of surveillance material from police and security sources, and its depiction of Murphy throughout his career. The structure is that of the classic dramatic tragedy.

Part one provides an introduction to the character betraying elements that could lead to his downfall. Part two provides the detail of his life and sets the stage, revealing the other characters in his life and their interaction with him. And part three provides a climax to the tragedy that affected not only Lionel Murphy but Australian society as a whole.

Directed by Daryl Dellora and produced by Sue Maslin.

Running Time

60 mins

Year

1990

Kanopy ID

1091629

Languages

Subjects

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A Voice to be Heard-

Indigenous Australians Elect Members to the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

In 1973, for the first time, Aboriginal people from across Australia directly elected members to the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee (NACC), a body set up to represent their interests to the Federal government, via the newly created Department of Aboriginal Affairs. #

A VOICE TO BE HEARD tells the story of the election up to the declaration of the poll and the first meeting of the NACC. One hundred and ninety-one candidates campaigned for 41 elected places on the NACC. People such as Harry Hall (the 'Freedom Rides', Walgett) Florence Kennedy (Torres Strait Islands), Jim Stanley (Adelaide) and Milton Liddle (Alice Springs) expressed their hopes and plans for the future of their communities - both urban and regional. Not all those speaking saw the institution of the NACC as admirable; none saw it as an end in itself.

Narrated by Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal), poet, artist and campaigner for Aboriginal rights, the film also features footage of John Moriarty, Charles Perkins and the former Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam who spoke at the NAIDOC election ball.

Running Time

49 mins

Year

1974

Kanopy ID

1577912

Filmmakers

Anthony Buckley, Greg Reading

Features

Kath Walker

Languages

Documentaries > Ethnicity & Identity

Subjects

Global Studies & Languages > Indigenous Studies

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With My Heart in Yambo - A Personal Look at Ecuador's Recent History

Pragda

In 1988, when director Maria Fernanda Restrepo was only 10 years old, her life changed in the cruelest of ways: her two brothers--then 14 and 17--vanished without a trace. Only later did the family learn that the boys had been illegally detained, tortured, and murdered by the Ecuadorean police.

Now, decades later, with her brothers' remains still missing, Restrepo embarks on the painful journey of recounting her family's story. In the process, she comes face to face with the suspects, and documents yet one more search in Lake Yambo, where the boys' bodies were dumped. This film portrays one of the darkest political episodes in Ecuador and provides an insider's look to the recent history of this country.

Official Selection at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Winner of the Second Coral Award for Documentary at the Habana International Film Festival. Winner of Best Ibero-American Film at DOCSDF, Mexico.

Running Time

140 mins

Year

2012

Kanopy ID

3498562

Filmmakers

María Fernanda Restrepo

Languages

Spanish

Subjects

Global Studies & Languages > Latin American Studies

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After Auschwitz

Profiling Six Extraordinary Holocaust Survivors and Their Lives After the War

Passion River Productions

"You're free. Go home." Most Holocaust films end with these words, the very words that survivors heard at liberation. But AFTER AUSCHWITZ is not a typical "Holocaust" film. It begins with these words, inviting audiences to experience what happened next.

AFTER AUSCHWITZ is a "Post-Holocaust" documentary that follows six extraordinary women, capturing what it means to move from tragedy and trauma towards life. These powerful women serve as our guides on an unbelievable journey, sometimes celebratory, sometimes heartbreaking but always inspiring.

Winner of the Best Feature Documentary Award at the Long Beach International Film Festival and at the Nantucket Film Festival.

"A powerful testament to individual humanity emerging from inhuman horrors." - Serena Donadoni, Village Voice

Running Time

82 mins

Year

2017

Kanopy ID

6421885

Filmmakers

Jon Kean

Features

Erika Jacoby, Eva Beckmann, Lili Majzner, Linda Sherman, Rena Drexler, Renee Firestone

Languages

Documentaries > Ethnicity & Identity

Subjects

Documentaries > Women & Society

Social Sciences > Jewish Studies

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Passion for Justice A Civil Rights Leader

Vision Video

Passion for Justice tells the compelling story of Drs. John and Vera Mae Perkins, integral leaders in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and an evangelical voice for community development and racial reconciliation.

As a pastor in 1960's Mississippi, John Perkins first focused exclusively on evangelism and Bible literacy, but he soon came to the conviction that Gospel ministry must address both spiritual and physical needs. In 1969 he helped lead an economic boycott of segregated businesses, an action that led to his arrest and torture by local police.

Today Perkins is an internationally known author and teacher, promoting biblical principles of justice and holistic Gospel ministry.

This documentary tells the story of John Perkins, his wife Vera Mae, and their family. Their very personal reflections on life and ministry provide countless points of spiritual insight and challenge.

Running Time

84 mins

Year

2015

Kanopy ID

1235088

Filmmakers

Roger LeBlanc

Features

Dr. John Perkins, Dr. Vera Mae Perkins, Elizabeth Perkins

Languages

Documentaries > Ethnicity & Identity

Subjects

Social Sciences > Human Rights

Passion and Power

The Technology of Orgasm

Wendy Slick & Emiko Omori

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This is the story of one simple invention, the vibrator, and its relationship to one complex human behavior, the female orgasm. The history of the vibrator and its medical use had virtually vanished until historian, Rachel Maines, researching needlework patterns in early 20th century women's magazines, ran across ads for electric vibrators. Piquing her curiosity, she traced the origins of this early electrified appliance and made an astonishing discovery.

Under the guise of a medical treatment, Victorian doctors had used vibrators to relieve women of symptoms of hysteria by masturbating them to orgasm. Why did women need this treatment? Female sexual satisfaction was, and continues to be, misunderstood or, worse, ignored. Almost 70% of women do not reach orgasm by penetration alone. Yet, the social, legal and religious definition of "real" sex is just that: penetration of the vagina to male orgasm. Female orgasm isn't even considered. Is it any wonder that a lot of women were unsatisfied? Their dissatisfaction was labeled "hysteria." Symptoms of hysteria were vague - being cranky, reading French novels while wearing tight corsets, etc. It was a disease manufactured by doctors creating a lucrative clientele and a mutually camouflaged procedure that satisfied both.

Running Time

73 mins

Year

2008

Kanopy ID

1116216

Filmmakers

Emiko Omori, Wendy Slick

Languages

Social Sciences > Gender Studies

Subjects

Documentaries > Women & Society

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Bilderberg: The Movie

The Origins and Expansion of a Secretive Global Organization

Feelsales

A documentary about the origins, development and expansion of one of the most elitist and secret organizations in today's world: The Bilderberg Group.

Once a year, the most powerful people on the planet, meet behind closed doors. The Group is comprised of European Prime Ministers, American presidents, and the wealthiest CEOs of the world, all coming together to discuss the economic and political future of humanity. The working press has never been allowed to attend, nor have statements ever been released on the attendees' conclusions or discussions, which have ramifications on the citizens of the world.

Running Time

63 mins

Year

2017

Kanopy ID

5110128

Filmmakers

Joan Cutrina

Features

Daniel Estulin, Denis Small, Gerard Aalders, Helga Zepp, Jeffrey Steinberg, Lyndon Larouche, Mario Borghezio, Michael Billington, Nigel Farage, Pilar Urbano

Languages

Subjects

Global Studies & Languages > European/Baltic Studies

Global Studies & Languages > North American Studies

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Waco: The Rules of Engagement

The Video Project

Waco: The Rules of Engagement is the first full-length documentary film to present the complete picture of the series of events outside Waco, Texas during 1993 that resulted in the shooting of 4 federal agents and the deaths of 86 men, women, and children of the Branch Davidian religious sect. Waco: The Rules of Engagement is a highly detailed examination of the interaction between David Koresh, his members, and Federal Law Enforcement. It shows how the FBI misled the public and American political leaders in order to focus overwhelming force on a group whose diversity of race, national origin, and apocalyptic religious beliefs made its members easy targets for lethal abuse of civil and human rights. Gripping and deeply thought provoking, the film provides America with something it truly needs - an opportunity to review the historical record of events at Waco. The findings raise doubts about the FBI's version of the story and their larger role in similar instances of law enforcement.

Running Time

90 mins

Year

1997

Kanopy ID

1174222

Filmmakers

Features

Languages

Freedom March features the San Francisco civil rights protest march of May 26, 1963,

sponsored by Bay Area black churches and the labor movement in support of the Birmingham, Alabama Campaign against segregation led by Martin Luther King, Jr.

and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The film shows the…

Perch of the Devil

No Greater Cause and Faces of Vietnam Protest

Perch of the Devil is about the hard rock miners of Butte, Montana, and the strike of copper miners in 1959.

The film reviews the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Local Union No. 1 and the many violent struggles that have happened in the mining camps of…

No Greater Cause chronicles the height of the anti-Vietnam war movement in the Bay Area.

Footage shows the massive confrontations in Oakland between police and anti-draft protestors in l967; the rally of 100,000 against the war at Kezar Stadium in April, l967.

On October 12, 1968, GI's for Peace organized…

Hot Damn!

American Commune - America's Largest Socialist Experiment

Hot Damn! contains footage of the 1965 Bay Area peace movement at a time when the Vietnam War was escalating rapidly.

Segments include the Berkeley, California, troop train demonstrations; the Committee for Non Violent Action (CNVA) peace protest at the Oakland Army Base; the October 15-16, 1965 In

Mundo Sisters

In 1970, 1,500 hippies and their guru Stephen Gaskin founded a commune in rural Tennessee.

Members forked over their savings, grew their own food, delivered their babies at home and built a self-sufficient society.

Raised in this alternative community by a Jewish mother from Beverly Hills and a Puerto Rican…

Through Their Eyes - The Impact of Agent Orange in Vietnam

Black Bags Productions

A documentary about the current unsettling situation of Agent Orange in Vietnam.

It follows an extended journey in Vietnam of a Chinese-Vietnamese American filmmaker. She visits families affected by the dioxin poisoning from the Agent Orange herbicide, as well as a good number of Vietnamese unaffected citizens (doctors, activists,

scientists,…

One Last Chance - A Nazi War Criminal in Australia

Artists at Work - A Film on the New Deal Art Projects

An important and provocative film suitable for Holocaust Studies, One Last Chance was filmed in Lithuania, Israel and Australia.

This documentary produced in 2000 explores the Australian government's handling of allegations that a South Australian resident, Antanas Gudelis, was a war criminal and Nazi supporter, wanted for tr

New Deal Films, Inc.

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933 during the Great Depression, nearly 10,000 artists were out of work.

Over the next decade, a series of programs known as the New Deal Art Projects was developed. Under the WPA and other programs, thousands of artists were able to earn…

Boatlift - An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience

From the midst of 9/11, one of the darkest moments in American history, comes this inspiring and relatively unknown story.

When the twin towers fell, hundreds of thousands of people ran to the water's edge. They soon realized that Manhattan is, indeed, an island. And that they were trapped. Within…

The Man Who Drove With Mandela

How did South Africa come to be the first country in the world to embody LGBT rights in their post-apartheid Constitution?

It was in large part due to the unsung hero Cecil Williams, whose moving life story is told in the feature documentary, The Man Who Drove With Mandela. Featuring…

Seed of Sarah

A video collage of song and remembrance. The story is based on Judith Magyar Isaacson's highly acclaimed memoir recounting her real-life story

as a young Hungarian girl growing up during the tumultuous years of WWII and the Holocaust. The film follows Judith's present day journey back to the places of…

I Live At Ground Zero

The Human Face of Hong Kong

"I Live at Ground Zero" offers a different take on the 9/11 disaster through the eyes of a child. On September 11, 2001, children living and going to school

around the World Trade Center were eye-witnesses to the destruction and senseless loss of life. Isabella, the subject of our film,…

The Human Face of China
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

"A series of five comprehensive human-interest programs on China and its people.

The Human Face of Indonesia

Hong Kong is internationally recognised as a hugely successful financial, manufacturing and trading centre.

It is also known as an exotic internaional stopover where even the most dedicated non-consumer buys at least a camera.

But Hong Kong is still a colony. It has no democracy. It is governed by a…

Center for Asian American Media

Indonesia is among Australia's closest neighbours and one of the world's most populous countries. Over 80 percent of its people are Muslim.

The military plays a significant role in politics in Indonesia and at the time of filming, the government was headed by President Suharto, an army general. This series…

Morning Sun

Morning Sun attempts, in the space of two hours, to create an inner history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (c.1964-1976).

It provides a multi-perspective view of a tumultuous period as seen through the eyes - and reflected in the hearts and minds - of members of the hig

Above and Beyond - The Birth of the Israeli Air Force

Playmount Productions

Would you risk everything - your future, your citizenship, even your life - to help a brother in need? In 1948,

just three years after the liberation of Nazi death camps, a group of Jewish American pilots answered a call for help. In secret and at great personal risk, they…

Writ Writer

Writ Writer portrays the historic conflict that emerged in the 1960s when Texas prisoners petitioned the courts for relief from inhumane prison conditions.

Focusing on the story of self-taught jailhouse lawyer Fred Arispe Cruz, the film uncovers his legal battle, his collaboration with poverty law attorney Frances Jalet, and his…

Theme: Murder

Black Panther / San Francisco State On Strike - Fighting for African American Rights in 1960's SF Bay Area

A real life story of murder, secrets and sexuality, set in the art world of the 50's and 60's, Theme: Murder takes the viewer on an immersive journey into the struggles

and frustrations of living with an unsolved homicide. The filmmaker was nine years old in 1968 when her father,…

Venezuela: Revolution From the Inside Out

BLACK PANTHER is the film the Black Panthers used to promote their cause. Shot in 1969, in Oakland, San Francisco and Sacramento, this exemplar of 1960s activist filmmaking traces the development of the Black Panther organisation. In an interview from jail, Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton describes the origins…

500 YEARS - Life in Resistance

Venezuela: Revolution from the Inside Out is a voyage into Latin America's most exciting experiment of the new millennium, exploring the history and projects of the Bolivarian Revolution through interviews with a range of its participants, from academics to farm workers and those living in the margins of

Mark Twain Finds His Voice: 88 Days in the Mother Lode

This new documentary tells the epic story that led Guatemala to a tipping point in their history from the genocide trial of former dictator General Rios Montt to the popular movement that toppled sitting President Otto Perez Molina. Focusing on universal themes of justice, racism, power and corruption, 500 YEARS…

This'n That Films

In the winter of 1864/65, a young Samuel Clemens spent 88 days in the Sierra Nevada Mother Lode country of California hiding out from the San Francisco police.

He lived in a small log cabin with several gold miners, and while it was too rainy to do any real mining,…

Voices Across the Divide - Identity & History of Palestinians & Jews

Alice Rothchild

The Israeli/Palestinian conflict is one of the most prominent, hot button debates in the US today.

There is often little space for compassionate listening or deepening awareness.

Access to information about the conflict is shaped by powerful forces and organizations. We believe a better future is possible based on mutual…

Where's the Fair - What Happened to the World's Fair?

R Squared Films

The simple question, 'What happened to the World's Fair?'

launches a journey that uncovers the sorted past, present, and future of the United State's role in the largest global event in

The Legacy of Jedwabne - The Destruction of a Jewish Community

Saved by Deportation - An Unknown Odyssey of Polish Jews

Inspired by Jan Gross' book titled Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne,

this film tells a shocking and brutal story that has been kept a secret in Poland for over 60 years.

It tells the story of a pogrom in 1941 in Jedwabne, Poland and explores the…

Santa Rosa: Odyssey in the Rhythm of Mariachi

Prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, 3 million three hundred thousand Jews lived in Poland By 1945 only 300,000 survived.

Of the survivors, approximately 80% escaped the Holocaust as a result of Stalin's deportation deep into the Soviet Union. This film tells the story of seven deportees,…

912 Days of The Warsaw Ghetto

In 1943 a group of 1434 Polish refugees from the Soviet Russia, including a few hundred orphans,
arrived in an abandoned ranch of Santa Rosa at the invitation of the Mexican President. Santa Rosa, near Leon,

Mexico became their home for the few years to come. Earlier in

Children of Shame - The Fate of 20th Century Irish Children Born Out of Wedlock

The Warsaw Ghetto 1940-1943 is documentary project that features three films. The main film is 912 Days of the Warsaw Ghetto (37 min.), and the two short ones are Children in the Ghetto and Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. These films were created for the Jewish Historical Institute as part of its…

Phil Sheppard Video Production

Tuam, a quiet town in the west of Ireland. Tuam, a name that traumatised the whole of Ireland in the spring of 2014,

when an unimaginable story was revealed. A hidden mass grave containing the remains of some 800 children was discovered on the former grounds of a home for…

Rabbit in the Moon

Emiko Omori

Like many innocent Japanese Americans released from WWII forced incarceration camps, the young Omori sisters

did their best to erase the memories and scars of life under confinement.

Fifty years later acclaimed filmmaker Emiko Omori asks her older sister and other detainees to reflect on the personal and political consequences…

Renaissance Italy

The Renaissance was a time of significant accomplishments in architecture, art, music, science and exploration.

It began in the Italian city-states, with Florence generally described as the cradle of the Renaissance.

Venice was a trading superpower with a large empire. The Catholic Church and Trade Unions were influential on society.…

The Second Day

On September 11, 2001, 4 year-old Brook Peters was attending his second day of kindergarten a few blocks from

the World Trade Center in New York City when two planes struck the Twin Towers. At age 11, Brook decided to make a film about that fateful day and its aftermath…

Into Eternity

Evanston's Living History - The Fight to Escape Racial Discrimination

The world's nuclear power plants have generated an estimated 300,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste that must be safely stored for 100,000 years or more.

Every year, they generate another 12,000 metric tons of high-level waste. Into Eternity is the first feature documentary to explore the mind-boggling scientific and philosophical…

Imagine Video Productions

It is the story of a community's struggle for justice; with roots extending to the town of Abbeville,

South Carolina and the horrific lynching of one of its prominent citizens, Anthony Crawford. It is the story of Crawford's granddaughter,

great-granddaughter, and great, great-granddaughter working alongside the families of Emmett Till,…

A Thousand Midnights - The Great Migration

Brown Planet Productions

2015 marks the centennial of the beginning of the Great Migration in which six million African Americans relocated from the rural South to

the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1915 to 1970. In many ways, the epic internal migration created what we now consider the modern American…

American Commune - America's Largest Socialist Experiment

Mundo Sisters

In 1970, 1,500 hippies and their guru Stephen Gaskin founded a commune in rural Tennessee.

Members forked over their savings, grew their own food, delivered their babies at home and built a self-sufficient society.

Raised in this alternative community by a Jewish mother from Beverly Hills and a Pu

Passion for Justice - A Civil Rights Leader

Vision Video

Passion for Justice tells the compelling story of Drs. John and Vera Mae Perkins, integral leaders in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's

and an evangelical voice for community development and racial reconciliation. As a pastor in 1960's Mississippi, John Perkins first focused exclusively on evangelism and Bible literacy,…

An American Mosque

The Triunfante - The Discovery and Restoration of an 18th Century Warship

An American Mosque is a film about Islam in America, religious intolerance, and the interfaith response to an historic hate-crime.

When the Islamic Center of Yuba City, California, was burned to the ground in 1994, it was the first arson to destroy a mosque in US history. At the time,…

Monroe Hill - Remembering James Monroe

What's the process of retrieving a sunken ship and preparing it for display in a museum? How do archaeologists work underwater?

One of the biggest wrecks ever discovered in Spain was the 'Triunfante', sunk during a French siege in 1795. We follow the process from its discovery to its display…

Heritage Film Project

"Monroe Hill" unearths the history of the site that contains the last remaining structures of the late 18th century southern plantation.

These surviving structures are silent witnesses to Monroe's struggle as a farmer and a politician from the late 1780's until the laying of the cornerstone at the University of…

The Babushkas of Chernobyl

Zainichi: The Story of Koreans in Postwar Japan

The Babushkas of Chernobyl journeys into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone several decades after the world's worst nuclear disaster in April 1986.

The tightly regulated 1000 square mile Dead Zone remains one of the most radioactively contaminated places on Earth, complete with military border guards. Surprisingly, a defiant, spirited group of…

Deok-soo Oh

Portraying the fifty-year history of zainichi (long-term residents in Japan) Koreans after the liberation of Korea,

traces of zainichi evoked in this film question the concepts of 'post-war democracy' and 'pacifism' in Japan. With copious stock footage and testimony, the first half of the film, "History," chronologically traces the various…

Sermons and Sacred Pictures - Reverend L.O. Taylor, Baptist Minister

There Has to be Another Way - The Hidden Victims of Immigration Law and Finding a New Future in Coal Country

SERMONS AND SACRED PICTURES profiles Reverend L.O. Taylor, a Memphis-based Baptist minister who in the 1930s and 40s

built a fiery reputation by lacing his sermons with parables, fables and dramatic visual descriptions.

Taylor was also an inspired photographer and filmmaker with a keen interest in preserving a

Episode 3 of America Divided Season Two

In part one, Diane Guerrero travels to Houston, Texas to investigate the effect of the state's anti-sanctuary Senate Bill 4 and

discovers some of the most vulnerable victims of this anti-immigrant era -- the victims of sex trafficking and domestic violence.

In part two, Nick Offerman travels to the coal…

Breaking Point - The War for Democracy in Ukraine

Synergetic Distribution

This documentary looks at people transformed by a democratic revolution,

who give up their normal lives to fight a Russian invasion, in a war which has killed 10,000 and displaced 1.9 million Ukrainians.

Nominated for a Social Justice Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. "An impeccably made story-of-a-siege…

A Good American - Behind a Government Surveillance Program

Collective Eye Films

A gripping docu-thriller about a groundbreaking surveillance program, the brilliant mastermind behind it and

how a perfect alternative to mass surveillance was killed by NSA-management for money - three weeks prior to 9/11.

Bill Binney was a brilliant cryptologist, long-time National Security Agency analyst, and Technical Directo

Mr. Cao Goes to Washington

Immigrant Nation! - The Battle for the Dream

What happens when the naivete of a political rookie clashes with the realities of racial politics of the American South and ultra-partisan struggles in Washington DC?

Mr. Cao Goes To Washington follows the unexpected journey of Rep. Joseph Cao-the first Vietnamese American elected to the US Congress, the only non-white…

abUSed: The Postville Raid

Immigrant Nation! is a feature documentary about the modern immigrant rights movement in 2006 and '07.

In particular, it is the story of the struggle of Elvira Arellano, a single mother from Chicago, who fought her deportation.

The film also interweaves the stories of individuals, organizations, activists and community leaders…

The perversion of the U.S. Constitution, the rule of law, and due process, and the human face of immigration are revealed through the gripping personal stories of the individuals,

the families and the town that survived the most brutal, most expensive and largest immigration raid in the history of the…

Special Circumstances

Money & Life: Redefining Our Relationship with Money

At 16, Hector Salgado was arrested and tortured by Pinochet's forces.

By 20, Hector was without a country, living in exile in the US, the very place whose devastating foreign policies in Chile caused the death and torture of 1,000s of Chileans.

The documentary follows Hector as he returns to…

Forsaken Cries: The Story of Rwanda

Money and Life is a compelling cinematic journey that examines the origins of money, how the role of money has changed over time,

how it shapes our lives and world today, and the emerging movement to create new economic models that redefine our relationships with money. The film presents a…

God's Messengers - Radical Groups and the Fate of the Middle East

In 1994, close to one million people were killed in a planned and systematic genocide in the African country of Rwanda,

the largest systematic murder of a single race since the Holocaust. How did this carnage occur when the world declared after WWII that it would never tolerate such mass…

In The Name of the Temple - Jewish Nationalistic Fundamentalism in Israel

An in-depth- intimate look at a group of idealistic radicals who live on the breaking point of an ancient conflict.

Despite being small in numbers, these groups seem to be holding the fate of the Middle East in their hands.

In response to the death of his brother Gilaad in…

Minustah Steals Goats - Foreign Intervention in Haiti

June 1967: faced with the threat from the Arab states, Israel went to war, occupied the Sinai peninsula, the Golan Heights,

the West Bank, and most significantly, East Jerusalem. For the first time in 2,000 years, Jewish soldiers trod the mount which is home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a holy…

Shades of Gray - The Struggle for LGBT Equality in Kansas

Haitians have had enough of foreign organizations that promise a lot but deliver little --

including the UN. The peacekeeping force, known by the acronym MINUSTAH, has killed gang leaders in the poorest neighborhoods and

achieved relative peace, but on the streets they have a reputation for doing nothing. The…

The Nuclear Requiem - The Ongoing Threat Posed by Nuclear Weapons

A documentary that focuses on the lives of five ordinary people leading normal lives in Lawrence, Kansas who happen to be gay and lesbian.

When the Lawrence City Council is approached with a proposal to add the words 'sexual orientation' to its discrimination policies, a struggle ensues between the citizens…

Zero Weeks - America's Paid Leave Crisis

Recent international developments are increasing concerns about the possibility of a nuclear confrontation.

That concern led the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 2017 to move its famous Doomsday Clock to 2 1/2 minutes before midnight -- the closest to midnight since 1953.

The Nuclear Requiem presents an in-depth reflection…

American Courtesans - Voices from within the Sex Trade

Most Americans would agree that no matter where you work or live, family comes first. And yet the United States is one of only two countries

in the world without a federal paid leave law, leaving its citizens to struggle with the most basic expenses when their savings are not…

Centex Enterprises

An intimate portrayal of modern day escorts in America. In our own words we discuss our lives, the events that led us into our profession, and the reasons we stay.

We welcome you into our world for a brief moment and will be candid and honest about what life is…

Human Harvest - China’s Organ Trafficking

Flying Cloud Productions

How did a country that until 2010 had no organ donation system, become one of the world's organ transplant leaders?

For years, China claimed that the organs came from executed prisoners, but the numbers didn't add up.

Short wait times and a seemingly endless supply of donors, made China a…

Who Took Johnny - Behind the Shocking 30-Year Disappearance of an Iowa Paperboy

Rumur Films

An examination into the infamous thirty-year-old cold case behind the disappearance of Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch,

the first missing child to appear on a milk carton. WHO TOOK JOHNNY focuses on the heartbreaking story of Johnny's mother, Noreen Gosch, and her relentless quest to find the truth about what happened…

Supreme Court Decisions That Changed The Nation Series

Guidance Associates

This series analyzes the controversial cases that shaped America's laws and history thus far.

Black Panther / San Francisco State On Strike - Fighting for African American Rights in 1960's SF Bay Area

Venezuela: Revolution From the Inside Out

BLACK PANTHER is the film the Black Panthers used to promote their cause. Shot in 1969, in Oakland, San Francisco and Sacramento,

this exemplar of 1960s activist filmmaking traces the development of the Black Panther organisation. In an interview from jail, Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton

The Human Face of Hong Kong

Venezuela: Revolution from the Inside Out is a voyage into Latin America's most exciting experiment of the new millennium,

exploring the history and projects of the Bolivarian Revolution through interviews with a range of its participants, from academics to farm workers and those living in the margins of

The Human Face of Indonesia

Hong Kong is internationally recognised as a hugely successful financial, manufacturing and trading centre.

It is also known as an exotic international stopover where even the most dedicated non-consumer buys at least a camera.

But Hong Kong is still a colony. It has no democracy. It is governed by a…

Center for Asian American Media

Indonesia is among Australia's closest neighbours and one of the world's most populous countries. Over 80 percent of its people are Muslim.

The military plays a significant role in politics in Indonesia and at the time of filming, the government was headed by President Suharto, an army general. This series…

Morning Sun

Morning Sun attempts, in the space of two hours, to create an inner history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (c.1964-1976).

It provides a multi-perspective view of a tumultuous period as seen through the eyes - and reflected in the hearts and minds - of members of the high-

Above and Beyond - The Birth of the Israeli Air Force

Playmount Productions

Would you risk everything - your future, your citizenship, even your life - to help a brother in need? In 1948,

just three years after the liberation of Nazi death camps, a group of Jewish American pilots answered a call for help. In secret and at great personal risk, they…

Writ Writer

Writ Writer portrays the historic conflict that emerged in the 1960s when Texas prisoners petitioned the courts for relief from inhumane prison conditions.

Focusing on the story of self-taught jailhouse lawyer Fred Arispe Cruz, the film uncovers his legal battle, his collaboration with poverty law attorney Frances Jalet, and his…

Theme: Murder

Black Panther / San Francisco State On Strike - Fighting for African American Rights in 1960's SF Bay Area

A real life story of murder, secrets and sexuality, set in the art world of the 50's and 60's, Theme: Murder takes the viewer on an immersive journey

into the struggles and frustrations of living with an unsolved homicide. The filmmaker was nine years old in 1968 when her father,…

BLACK PANTHER is the film the Black Panthers used to promote their cause. Shot in 1969, in Oakland, San Francisco and Sacramento,

this exemplar of 1960s activist filmmaking traces the development of the Black Panther organisation. In an interview from jail, Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton describes the origins…

Perch of the Devil

No Greater Cause and Faces of Vietnam Protest

Perch of the Devil is about the hard rock miners of Butte, Montana, and the strike of copper miners in 1959.

The film reviews the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Local Union No. 1 and the many violent struggles that have happened in the mining camps of…

No Greater Cause chronicles the height of the anti-Vietnam war movement in the Bay Area.

Footage shows the massive confrontations in Oakland between police and anti-draft protestors in l967;

the rally of 100,000 against the war at Kezar Stadium in April, l967. On October 12, 1968, GI's for Peace organized…

Hot Damn!

Hot Damn! contains footage of the 1965 Bay Area peace movement at a time when the Vietnam War was escalating rapidly.

Segments include the Berkeley, California, troop train demonstrations; the Committee for Non Violent Action (CNVA) peace protest at the Oakland Army Base; the October 15-16, 1965 International Days of…

Freedom March

Freedom March features the San Francisco civil rights protest march of May 26, 1963, sponsored by Bay Area black churches and

the labor movement in support of the Birmingham, Alabama Campaign against segregation led by Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The film shows the…

Everyman

Everyman is the name of a boat built in Sausalito by Bay Area peace movement activists to sail into Pacific Ocean nuclear test zones to protest nuclear testing.

The film covers the building of the boat and Everyman's first and only voyage on May 27, 1962 when it sailed out…

Beale Street

Our Asian Neighbours - Thailand

From the early days of black & white reel-to-reel video...Beale Street is where W.C.Handy wrote the blues, where Boss Crump abused his power, and

where Martin Luther King, Jr. marched days before his death in 1968. Beale Street has been the victim of Urban Renewal, and we went to the…

Our Asian Neighbours - India

Our Asian Neighbours is a series of films that aims to convey everyday life in Asia and promote greater understanding of often complex societies.

This series is devoted to Thailand and brings to life its people and their culture. Each program captures the lifestyle of a different individual in their…

Our Asian Neighbours: Indonesia

Our Asian Neighbours is a series of films that aims to convey everyday life in Asia and promote greater understanding of often complex societies.

This series is devoted to India and brings to life its people and their culture. Each program captures the lifestyle of a different individual in their…

Our Asian Neighbours is a series of films that aims to convey everyday life in Asia and promote greater understanding of often complex societies.

This series is devoted to Indonesia and brings to life its people and their culture. Each program captures the lifestyle of a different individual in their…

Spirit of the Dawn

Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies

"Education is your most powerful weapon. With it, you are the whiteman's equal, without it, you are his victim." Chief Plentycoups,

last Crow Chief Spirit of the Dawn explores the dramatic changes in Indian education from the boarding schools of the past, where children were beaten for speaking their language…

Arthouse Films

Produced by Martin Scorsese and Robert Greenhut and directed by Arne Glimcher, Picasso and Braque go to the Movies is

a cinematic tour through the effects of the technological revolution, specifically the invention of aviation, the creation of cinema and

their interdependent influence on artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.…

Decision in the Streets

Bilderberg: The Movie - The Origins and Expansion of a Secretive Global Organization

Decision in the Streets shows the tumultuous beginnings of the Bay Area civil rights and peace protest movement from 1960 to 1965.

Street demonstrations in the Bay Area during the first half of the 1960's grew out of the peace movement and the support for the southern civil rights fight…

Dance of Death - US Soldiers and the Iraqi People

A documentary about the origins, development and expansion of one of the most elitist and secret organizations in today's world:

The Bilderberg Group. Once a year, the most powerful people on the planet, meet behind closed doors.

The Group is comprised of European Prime Ministers, American presidents, and the wealthiest…

Episode 5 of Shocking and Awful

Part five of a twelve part series from Deep Dish TV on the war in Iraq.

This program examines the relationship between U.S. soldier-occupiers and the Iraqi people.

What impact has this interaction had on the soldiers, what hopes or resentments has it fueled in the people of Iraq?

Erasing Memory - The Cultural Destruction of Iraq

Episode 6 of Shocking and Awful

In the wake of the U.S. invasion, the military stood by and watched the destruction of the museums and archives of Iraq

the oldest treasures of human civilization. Millennia of history were bombed, looted and destroyed, and

with them much of the memory and culture of Iraq. Part six of…

The World Says NO to War

Episode 8 of Shocking and Awful

Part eight of a twelve part series from Deep Dish TV on the war in Iraq.

This program documents the massive protests of tens of millions of people throughout the world in

opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Sounds and images from 16 countries show passionate and creative reactions…

Resistance at Home - American's Opposing the War in Iraq

Episode 11 of Shocking and Awful

Part eleven of a twelve part series from Deep Dish TV on the war in Iraq.

This episode focuses on the millions of Americans who have said, NO!

to the invasion and occupation of Iraq and the larger Bush agenda

of clampdowns on free speech, increased spying on citizens and…

Baghdad - Realities of War in Iraq

Episode 12 of Shocking and Awful

A raw and uncensored look into the every day realities of war in Iraq; Italian filmmaker Dario Bellini

has created a film that shows the human face of war. Without dialogue or narration,

Baghdad is a haunting collage of still and moving images providing an inside look into the lives…

Beyond the Border - A Mexican Immigrant Joins his Brothers in Kentucky

Dos Vatos

Young Marcelo Ayala leaves his home in Mexico to join his brothers in the Kentucky Bluegrass.

Thousands of Latinos seeking better possibilities have been migrating to Midwestern states like Kentucky, with jobs in the tobacco, manufacturing and horseracing industries. But as these Latino communities have swelled, so too has the…

Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus - Using the Free Market to End Poverty, Hunger, and Inequality

Holly Mosher

What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality?

To some, it sounds impossible. But Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that.

Bonsai People celebrates Yunus' extraordinary humanitarian work, which started by lending $27 to 42…

Free for All - One Man's Quest to Save Democracy

Holly Mosher

As Ohio goes, so goes the nation. FREE FOR ALL features filmmaker John Wellington Ennis--a disillusioned American--

in Ohio with a business suit, sense of humor, faded ideals and a camera.

The film explores recent evidence of election fraud happening in the U.S. since 2000, when thousands of black Democratic voters…

Starving the Beast - The Battle to Disrupt and Reform America's Public Universities

Railyard Films

As college tuition skyrockets and student debt explodes, a powerful new documentary reveals a nationwide fight

for control of the heart, soul and finances of America's public universities. STARVING THE BEAST

tells the story of a potent one-two punch roiling public higher education right now: 35 years of systematic defunding…

The List - An American Protecting Iraqi Allies from the U.S. Government

Principle Pictures

This documentary film tells the story of Kirk Johnson, a modern-day Oskar Schindler

who is fighting to save Iraqis whose lives are in danger because they worked for the U.S. government and military

to help rebuild Iraq.

After leading reconstruction teams in Baghdad and Fallujah for the United States, Kirk…

America Heard: Refuge of Hope - Refugees Talk About What Their Presidential Vote Means to Them

Idesygn Creative

Two women at the forefront of a refugee community in Central NY reflect on what their presidential vote means

to those whose only true home is the American town that took them in.

Killing Ed - An Expose of a Charter School Network

Bond Educator

What is the Gulen Movement? And why are its members operating the largest chain of tax-payer funded

charter schools in the USA? Where is the money going and how is it being used? Produced by an award-winning team of

filmmakers, Killing Ed exposes the controversial Gulen Movement's investment into K-12…

China's 3 Dreams - The Missing History of China

Nick Torrens Films

"In the 1970s, we had three dreams: a watch, a wireless and a bicycle".

What are the dreams of the Chinese people today? Filmed over an 11-year period, Nick Torrens' third essay film

about China in the modern world is an exploration of the missing years - the years of…

Crossing Arizona - The Immigration Crisis in Arizona

RAINLAKE

A Sundance Film Festival favorite, CROSSING ARIZONA offers an up-close multi-dimensional look at

the hotly debated issues of immigration and border security through the eyes of people directly affected

by it at America's flashpoint - in Arizona's Sonora Desert on the border with Mexico. This timely documentary reveals the complicated…

Nation on Fire - The Revolution in Ukraine

We Are Wisconsin - A Political Revolution in Wisconsin

A stunning portrait of the Ukraine, a country gripped by fear, NATION ON FIRE is a rare and exclusive snapshot

of the days after the riots, but before the storm. In early February, 2014,

with the eyes of the world elsewhere, protesters flooded Maidan, the main square in Kiev but…

GlobalGirl Media Productions

When a Republican Governor's bill threatens to wipe away worker rights and lock out public debate,

six ordinary citizens force their way into the Wisconsin State Capitol, and spend the next twenty-six days

with hundreds of other citizens, building a movement that not only challenges the bill, but the soul…

Killswitch - The Battle to Control the Internet

Random Media

The Internet is under attack. Free speech, innovation, and democracy are all up for grabs. KILLSWITCH

is about the battle for control over the Internet. This is the story of two young hactivists, Aaron Swartz & Edward Snowden,

who symbolize the disruptive and dynamic nature of the Internet. Their lives…

Born in Syria - Child Refugees of Syria's Civil War

Life, Deferred (Vida Diferida) - The Uncertainties Haunting Undocumented Youth and Their Families

Since 2011, an estimated 9 million Syrians -- half of them children -- have fled their homes due to the civil war. BORN IN SYRIA follows seven of these young, displaced children for a year witnessing everything through their eyes: their escape from Syria, their travel through the refugee camps…

The Great White Hoax - Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America

This documentary film tells the story of Vanessa, a teenager born in Mexico who has lived in the United States with her family since

she was six years old. Once an excelling middle-school student with big dreams of becoming a doctor,

Vanessa begins to be haunted by her undocumented status…

In the Name of All Canadians - The Canadian Socio-Political Atmosphere

Acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise explores how Donald Trump expertly tapped into long-simmering racial tensions and

rode an accelerating wave of white anxiety and grievance straight to the White House. Rejecting the notion that

Trump's racial appeals to white voters during the 2016 campaign somehow represented a break…

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival

Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms gets six fresh perspectives with IN THE NAME OF ALL CANADIANS,

a compilation of short documentaries commissioned by Hot Docs. From Indigenous rights to the controversial 'notwithstanding clause,'

participating filmmakers take the Charter's key tenets off the page and into the lived experiences of…

Return to Bamako - The Birth of Extremist Movements in Africa

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb...Daesh...Boko Haram. So many extremist movements, of which Africa has become a breeding ground,

have declared war against Western values and people. Beyond the misunderstandings that often paralyze us, we have to ask ourselves the real question: how did we get here? Filmed

Infiltrating Al Qaeda

Into the Current - Burma's Political Prisoners

This one of a kind documentary follows an Algerian reporter Mohammed Sifaoui over a period of four months as

he infiltrated an Islamic AL-Qaeda network in France. Passing himself as a religious fundamentalist, who believes in the theories of Osama Bin Laden,

he wins the confidence of the network members,…

Jeanne Hallacy

Into the Current takes the viewer into the darkest corners of Burma's massive system of repression.
The ordeal of political prisoners like Ko Bo Kyi illuminates the suppression of democracy activists through imprisonment, torture and isolation,

but more importantly, the resolute commitment they embody for a people long denied their…

PNG: The Rules of the Game

Arcimedia

In Iraq, the battle for democracy means daily horror and bloodshed.

In PNG's recent election, amid fears of violence, murder and mayhem and accusations of rampant corruption on a vast scale ...

a powerful white businessman, a traditional PNG coffee magnate and a woman who owns a chicken market ...…

Hope In A Slingshot

Gough Whitlam: In His Own Words

This is an eloquent and passionate story that brings a necessary human dimension to a highly politicised crisis.

Australian filmmaker Inka Stafrace courageously journeys through Israeli military incursions in the

West Bank to discover for herself some of the human truths behind this devastating issue that holds the world in…

The Center for New American Media

GOUGH WHITLAM: IN HIS OWN WORDS looks at Whitlam's early parliamentary life,

his role in the 1960s and 1970s as Labor's Deputy Leader and Leader, and taking the ALP to power after a record 23 years of Liberal government.

The remarkable achievements of his three short years in government and…

Getting Back to Abnormal

"They say that a mixture of every nation is to be found in New Orleans. But in the midst of this confusion,

what race should dominate and give direction to the rest?" -

Alexis de Toqueville, 1832 What happens when America's most joyous, dysfunctional city rebuilds itself after a disaster?…

Zahira's Peace

Daedalus Productions

This feature documentary tells the courageous story of Zahira, a young woman gravely injured in the Madrid train bombing,

her family and her friends, who embrace the political changes that took place in Spain following those tragic events.

Wall - Before and After the Wall Between Israel and Palestine

Lifesize Entertainment

A cinematic meditation on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which the filmmaker blurs the lines of hatred by asserting her double identity as Jew and Arab.

In an original documentary approach, the film follows the separation fence that is destroying one of the most historically significant landscapes in the world, while…

Born Into Struggle

Filmmaker Rehad Desai takes us on an intimate journey mapped out by the scars etched into his family's life from having a father who was intensely involved in politics.

Barney Desai was a political hero during South Africa's struggle for freedom, yet as a father he was damagingly absent emotionally.…

Living At Risk

Refuge - A Film About Darfur

Living at Risk, made in 1984-85 at the height of the Contra war, brings us inside Sandinista Nicaragua five years

after the revolution that overthrew the dictator Anastasio Somoza. It centers on five siblings of the privileged,

well-connected Barrios family, all deeply committed to the revolution and working for it…

Lost and Found - The Story of Romania's Forgotten Children

In this alternately enraging and heartbreaking documentary, Canadian student Jonathan Pedneault and filmmaker Alexandre Trudeau travel to Darfur

to try to make sense of reports of genocide in the region. Making their way clandestinely with a group of rebels into the heart of the Sudanese war zone, they chronicle stories…

Water and the Dream of the Engineers

The legacy of the governmental policies concerning population growth and the family under the Communist rule in

Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu were devasting. This documentary presents an uncompromising look at the

situation of scores of thousands of children in the state orphanages today.

Winner of 20 international awards, Lost and…

From the cholera epidemics of the nineteenth century to the climbing cancer rate of our time; from the colossal scale of

New York City's aqueduct and water tunnels to the water wars of the West;

from the dangers of chemical contamination to the water politics of Polanski's film Chinatown, Water…

The Men Who Lost China

Deep Waters Films

It is often said that history is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.
While a tremendous amount of literature has been devoted to the turning points of the Western History,

little attention has been paid to the US and European policies towards the Chinese Revolution…

Beyond Borders

Beyond Borders moves past the headlines and takes an in-depth look at the hot-button issues of legal and illegal immigration.

The film explores the forces driving the immigration controversy from both sides of the debate.

Anti-immigration activists demand we stop this "illegal alien invasion", while some pro-immigration forces speak of…

The Ukranian Powder Keg

Upside Television

On February 20th 2014, Maidan square exploded. Following this event, President Viktor Ianoukovytch fled the country and left power.

Three weeks later, Crimea voted its unification with the Russian Federation.

The country is now on the verge of a civil war. How did this happen? The Ukranian Powder Keg is…

Listen To Venezuela

Inside Film

A revolutionary film about a country in revolution. Listen To Venezuela takes the viewer into a contemporary revolution and

extraordinary experiment in radical democracy and social justice. In Venezuela, ordinary people have rejected the savage neo-liberal capitalism

that has been imposed the world over.

In the west, democracy has been…

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Part of the Series: ICONS: Big Star Profiles

This program presents a biographical profile of Hillary Rodham Clinton prior to her becoming the United States' 67th Secretary of State.

As we see, most American First Ladies have been content to stay in the background,

but Hillary Rodham Clinton proved to be as ambitious as her husband, former US…

City of Fear

Controlling Interest - The Growth of Conglomerates and Their Influence on Global Affairs

It is October 2009 and the city of Islamabad is on high alert. As a new wave of violence shakes Pakistan, suicide bombers

hit at the city's UN World Food Programme office and Islamic University.

Beginning with these attacks, City of Fear spends a year in Islamabad to witness how…

Ask Not: Don't Ask, Don't Tell

The first account on film of the growth of multinational corporations, their impact on people at home and abroad, and their influence on U.S. foreign policy.

This is the film that helped kick-off the anti-globalization movement.

Upon its release, CONTROLLING INTEREST quickly became a standard "audio-visual text" for those concerned…

Adolfo Perez Esquivel: Rivers of Hope

Homosexuality is the last target of official discrimination in the U.S. armed forces. When President Bill Clinton took office in 1993,

his campaign pledge to lift the ban on gays serving openly in the military became a heated issue, with military leaders,

Christian fundamentalists and conservative Congress members expressing vehement…

PeaceJam Foundation

Adolfo Perez Esquivel: Rivers of Hope is the story of Latin America over the past eighty years, as seen through the eyes of one man --

world famous artist, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Adolfo Perez Esquivel.

From his humble birth in Argentina to an indigenous mother…

Girlfriend in a Coma

Springshot Productions

A cautionary tale for the West from Italy, a country once so crucial in defining western civilisation, and whose travails now raise fundamental and

universal issues for civic education Filmmaker Annalisa Piras and former Economist Editor Bill Emmott explore the malaise of Italy over the past 20 years, as the…

Children in No Man’s Land

Impacto Films

Children In No-Man's Land is an award-winning documentary that uncovers the current plight of the 100,000 unaccompanied minors entering the United States.

The film will give this timely political debate about the U.S.-Mexico border a human face by exploring the stories of Maria de Jesus (13) and her cousin Rene…

Climate Refugees - The Global Human Impact of Climate Change

The Edge of the Wild - Upholding the Endangered Species Act

Climate Refugees is the first feature film to explore in-depth the global human impact of climate change and its serious destabilizing effect on international politics.

The film turns the distant concept of global warming into a concrete human problem with enormous worldwide consequences.

Experts predict that by mid-

Green Planet Films

The Edge of the Wild is a documentary about a 30-year land-use battle over privately owned property that is also home to endangered butterflies.

The film takes place on San Bruno Mountain, a remarkably intact wilderness that is completely surrounded by urbanization and is just one mile south of San…

Nerd Prom: Inside Washington's Wildest Week

Life Is My Movie Entertainment

Most Americans might think that the most important event each year in Washington, D.C. -

arguably the world's most important city and one built on public service -

would resemble, say, a political rally, a bill signing or some compelling Capitol Hill testimony that moves lawmakers to action. Nothing could…

Donald Trump: The Apprentice President - The 2016 Trump Presidential Campaign

An African Election - Ghana’s Democracy in Action

Since announcing his candidacy, Donald Trump is everywhere. To him, it seems that nothing is taboo and no policy too outlandish to embrace.

Somehow, this billionaire candidate has become the champion of ordinary America, with supporters travelling hundreds of miles just to see him.

To understand this phenomenon, we followed…

Hybrid Entertainment

In a world plagued by stolen elections, secret government agendas, and a renewed interest in the exploitation of African natural resources,

what value does democracy offer, particularly in the tumultuous region of West Africa? For Ghana, a nation that has been

Africa's barometer of political stability, democracy may mean the…

The Square - The Egyptian Revolution

The Black Road - The Fight for Political Independence in Indonesia

The Egyptian Revolution has been an ongoing rollercoaster over the past two and a half years.

Through the news, we only get a glimpse of the bloodiest battle, an election, or a million man march.

At the beginning of July 2013, we witnessed the second president deposed within the space…

Electric Pictures

The Black Road takes us on a journey deep inside Southeast Asia's hottest conflict - a conflict that may well decide the fate of Indonesia,

Australia's closest neighbour and the world's largest Muslim nation.

Whilst the people of Aceh fight for political independence, Indonesia wants to keep the gas-rich province…

Investigation of a Flame- The Activism of the Catonsville Nine

Icons Of Our Time: Che Guevara

On May 17, 1968 nine Vietnam War protesters, including a nurse, an artist and three priests, walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office,

grabbed hundreds of selective service records and burned them with homemade napalm. "Investigation of a Flame" is an intimate,

experimental documentary portrait of the Catonsville Nine,…

Part of the Series: Icons Of Our Time

Che Guevara, the archetypal Marxist revolutionary. Che was also a physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist.

We go to Dublin to meet Jim Fitzpatrick who met Che and designed the classic commercially renowned image.

A Common Enemy - The Future of the Arab Spring is at Stake

Lasoga Films

After 23 years of corrupt dictatorship the Tunisian people unite to overthrow cruel dictator Ben Ali, triggering the Arab Spring.

This historical event is now an echo in their minds. Free elections are announced and impending changes may rapidly modify

the country's society, especially as the victory of Islamic party…

I am the People - The Struggle for Democracy in Egypt

3 Billion and Counting - Malaria and the Ban of DDT

As the Egyptian people rise up in Tahrir Square, a rural community in the Nile valley follows the revolution on TV, radio and in the newspapers.

Intimately shot over the three year period from the overthrow of Mubarak to the fall of Morsi, we are shown an alternate view of…

Gravitas Ventures

Dr. Rutledge and his team take an in depth look into a disease that has killed more people than any disease ever known -- Malaria.

They interview African, Indian, and US Governments, charitable organizations, scientists, politicians, doctors, clinics, victims, and survivors.

They explore and expose the politics of domestic and…

An Inconvenient Tax - An Exploration of American Tax Code

Life Is My Movie Entertainment

Albert Einstein once wrote, "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

The product of 95 years' worth of additions, subtractions, deductions, and exclusions, it has become such a headache that

many are calling for it to be drastically simplified or even removed all together. With…

The Last Colony - Puerto Rico's Unique Relationship With The United States

Last Colony Corporation

In 1898, the United States invaded and colonized Puerto Rico as part of the Spanish American War.

For 114 years the people of Puerto Rico have maintained a polarizing debate on the STATUS ISSUE

that has been front and center of the political discourse on the Island. Puerto Ricans (American…

A Political Life - Aung San Suu Kyi's Former Bodyguard

Part of the Series: Yangon Film School

U Thein Soe dedicated the best years of his life to working as Aung San Suu Kyi's bodyguard. To please his long-suffering wife and

family he has now bowed out of politics - but still can't help giving up his time to provide local people with valuable legal advice. Student…

Solomon - The Charismatic Leader of the Chin People of Myanmar

Part of the Series: Yangon Film School

An encounter with the filmmaker's uncle, the charismatic commander of the Chin National Front Solomon Thang Ding,

that also takes a look at the political reforms that Chin State - Myanmar's poorest region - is undergoing in the wake of Myanmar's transition. '..

draws you in from beginning to end,…

Postcards from the Great Divide - Examining The Partisan Split In America

The Center for New American Media

Examining the deeply partisan split among the American electorate,

the series travels to key locations across the US to help provide a greater understanding of how changing demographics and

political self-sorting will continue to have a profound effect on American politics for years to come. Black voters in Florida hesitating…

The Real Face of Occupation - Recent Military Actions in Iraq

Episode 1 of Shocking and Awful

Part one of a twelve part series from Deep Dish TV on the war in Iraq.

The programs address the implications and consequences of the recent military actions in Iraq and shows

how people are mobilizing to deal with the issues raised by the war.

Standing With the Women of Iraq

Episode 2 of Shocking and Awful

Part two of a twelve part series from Deep Dish TV on the war in Iraq.

This program asks what the U.S. invasion and occupation has meant for the women of Iraq?

In this program their passionate statements of resistance are intercut with actions by Code Pink, Women in Black…

National Insecurities - Muslims in the US

Episode 3 of Shocking and Awful

In the wake of 911 the U.S. government launched a 21st century pogrom against Arabs and Muslims in the U.S, inflaming racial and religious hatreds and fears.

Violence against immigrants, especially Arabs, imprisonment without trial, especially for Muslims became shockingly common occurrences in the United States.

Jason da Silva's film…

The Art of Resistance - Art in Response to War

Episode 4 of Shocking and Awful

The growing impact of artists and cultural performances that have invigorated and enlivened resistance to America's imperial war on Iraq.

Picasso responded to the fascist takeover of Spain in the 1930s with his famous painting Guernica.

Artists today are responding the U.S. occupation of Iraq and domestic repress

Two Americans - Fighting Deportation in Arizona

Ave Phoenix Productions

The parents of a 9-year old girl are arrested in Arizona when America's Toughest Sheriff Joe Arpaio,

raids a local car wash suspected of hiring undocumented workers. As Kathy fights to prevent her parents' deportation,

a community group succeeds in pressuring the County Board to investigate the Sheriff's Office.

Miami Manhunt - The Hunt for a Serial Rapist

Rumur Films

When a string of disturbing assaults terrorizes Miami in the summer of 2003, the city cries for justice.

The police launch a massive investigation, and soon realize they have a serial rapist on their hands.

The investigation and apprehension that ensue become one of the most famed manhunts in Miami's…

Motley's Law - An American Lawyer Fighting for Human Rights in Afghanistan

LevelK ApS

Kimberley Motley left her husband and three kids in the US in order to work as a defence lawyer in Kabul, Afghanistan. Today she is the first and only foreign lawyer who litigates in Afghanistan's courts. For over five years now, human rights cases and troubled expats have motivated her…

Death in Léon - Investigating the Murder of Isabel Carrasco

The People's Girls - Understanding and Combating Sexual Harrasment in Egypt

The brutal murder of Isabel Carrasco, one of Spain's most controversial politicians, shocked the nation.

Three women were quickly arrested in what appeared to be an inexplicable private vendetta.

But as the investigation developed, a deeper story of power, deceit and betrayal emerged. With unrivalled access to all the main…

Three Minutes

Episode 1 of Death in Léon

On May 12 2014, Isabel Carrasco, the president of the provincial government of Leon, Spain were murdered in broad daylight in the center of Leon.

Feared and hated for her autocratic rule, many people wanted her dead.

Two women were quickly arrested, mother and daughter Montserrat Gonzalez and Triana Martinez.…

Seven Years

Episode 2 of Death in Léon

Seven years before the crime, Isabel Carrasco came to power in Leon.

At the same time, Triana Martinez, a young telecommunications engineer, started work in the provincial council.

The two had a great relationship until, all of a sudden, everything changed. In the trial, Triana reveals the reason for the…

Ten Hours

Episode 3 of Death in Léon

No one understands the involvement of the local policewoman, and Triana's friend, Raquel Gago.

The prosecution is convinced that she was part of the plan, but she maintains her innocence.

The defence calls up two police inspectors as witnesses. They are accused of misleading the defendants and lying in their…

Life After

Episode 4 of Death in Léon

The jury finds the three defendants guilty of murder. The prosecutor's case wins. Isabel Carrasco's memory becomes increasingly distant in Leon; no one wants to look back. The three defendants are pinning all of their hopes on the Supreme Court. At the last minute, the filmmakers discover something that was…

The Survivor's Guide to Prison - Exploring the Current State of the US Prison System

Sexual harassment is a growing problem in Egypt, especially in Cairo. Through a series of interviews and social experiments,
THE PEOPLE'S GIRLS takes a closer look at who is to blame, as well as how women are fighting back.

THE PEOPLE'S GIRLS won Best Documentary Short at the Arab Film…

Gravitas Ventures LLC

You're more likely to go to prison in the USA than any other country in the world.

THE SURVIVORS GUIDE TO PRISON explores the current state of the US prison system,

focusing on the experiences of two wrongly convicted men, Reggie Cole and Bruce Lisker. Featuring gripping commentary from former…

It's Criminal - Women Discuss Privilege, Poverty, and Injustice in America

A Hard Straight - The Radical Transition from Prison Life to Society

Two worlds collide when Dartmouth College students meet with incarcerated women at a local jail in

this transformational documentary about privilege, poverty, and injustice.

IT'S CRIMINAL highlights the wide economic and social inequality that divides the United States and offers a unique window into how two groups of women break…

Going Back (De Volta) - Brazillian Prisoners Experience Four Days of Freedom

A gang member, a mother, and a small-time dealer. They served their sentences, they're on parole.

Now they're about to discover that walking out the prison gates is just the beginning.

A HARD STRAIGHT tells the story of what it is really like for a person to make the radical…

The Sandman - The Contradictory World of Medicalized Executions.

Four days of freedom. The greatest gift a prisoner can receive, and the greatest challenge. GOING BACK follows

four Brazilian convicts serving hard time who are granted temporary leave from prison during

Christmas, 2012. Leandro, Midian, Sonia and Anderson return to their homes to confront the ghosts of the past,…

Shooting for Democracy - Students and Politics in the US vs Bhutan

The medical community strongly opposes the use of medicine for executions. And yet, most states practicing lethal injections require a physician's oversight.

Because of this conflict, states go to great lengths to conceal the identities of participating medical personnel.

But Dr. Carlo Musso has been public about his decade-plus long…

Taken for a Ride - Social and Environmental Implications of Transportation

Shooting for Democracy brings together voices of students in the world's smallest emerging democracy with those in one of the largest, most established democracies.

The film is a vibrant portrayal of the United States and Bhutan during their national elections. Inspired by the first democratic elections ever to take place…

All Eyes and Ears - The Complex Links Between the U.S. and China

Why Does America Have the Worst Public Transit in the Industrialized World, and the Most Freeways?

Taken for a Ride reveals the tragic and little known story of an auto and oil industry campaign, led by General Motors, to buy and dismantle streetcar lines.

Across the nation, tracks were torn…

Outcast Films

A timely exploration into the complex links between the U.S. and China,

ALL EYES AND EARS evokes the personal and the international, focusing on diplomacy, activism and individual experience.

Interspersed with remarks from journalists and experts, ALL EYES AND EARS interweaves the stories of U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman,…

Mother Tongue - A Mayan Community re-tells its History in Ixil

Fire on the Mountain - America's WWII Winter Warfare Fighting Unit

This documentary short chronicles the first time a film has been translated and dubbed into Maya-Ixil,

the native language of one of the Guatemalan indigenous groups that were targeted by State-sponsored genocide in 1982-83.

Told from the perspective of Matilde Terraza, a young emerging leader from the Ixil community and…

Empire City - New York in the 1980's

The goal was clear: defeat the Nazis who were entrenched high in the snowy mountains of Italy. Drawing together an elite group of champion skiers,

mountain climbers and European mountaineers, the U.S. Army created the 10th Mountain Division, America's only mountain and winter warfare fighting unit.

From the intensive training…

New Yorkers - A Portrait of a Manhattan Neighborhood in the Early 70s

This is the story of two New Yorks. Made at a time when the city was experiencing unprecedented real estate development on the one hand and

unforeseen displacement of population and deterioration on the other.

The film contrasts the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation…

Broadway Express - A Historic Portrait of New York City

Set in and around East 77th Street, NEW YORKERS follows inhabitants of the neighborhood, documenting their small businesses,

daily encounters and commentary on New York in the 1970s. With the neighborhood experiencing changes in culture, cost and

character we get to know a wide range of residents, each vastly different…

We Were German Jews - Herbert and Lotte Strauss's Story of Escaping the Holocaust

Shot in 1959, Michael Blackwood's first film, Broadway Express, is a portrait of the people of New York City, as experienced in the city's lively subways.

Blackwood's camera captures the beautiful and chaotic choreography of the commuters.

Accompanied by a sparse musical score driven by punchy snare drums and rumbling…

Blood and Iron: The Story of the German War Machine Episode 1-3

Herbert and Lotte Strauss fled Germany in 1943, escaping their near certain fate in a Nazi Concentration camp.

The brave pair take us back through time, sharing the details of their trying and personal journey to the United States and the life that followed.

Herbert and Lotte describe the urgency…

A three part mini-series showing the development of German industrial might throughout the 20th century and

how Germany became a central foe of Western powers in the world wars that dominated the first half of 20th century life.

In Episode 1 THE GREAT WAR COMES takes the viewer back to…

Human Remains

Jay Rosenblatt Films

Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most reviled dictators.

The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco and Mao Tse Tung

. We learn the private and mundane…

Garwin

Hiroshima Nagasaki August 1945

Garwin is the first film to profile renowned physicist and inventor Richard Garwin, who helped shape history as designer of the first hydrogen bomb and

later as a top science adviser on nuclear arms control and other issues.

In verite style, the documentary delves into the rich and controversial life…

This classic, unforgettable film features the first film footage shot following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

The viewer becomes an eyewitness to the bomb's aftermath, literally walking through the rubble and hospitals jammed with dying people.

In August 1945 a Japanese filmmaker, Akira Iwasaki, who was…

9/11 B&B Guestbook

The Last Happy Day - An Essay on the Destructive Power of War

This half-hour documentary, shot at a bed and breakfast four hours Northwest of New York City,

captures the reactions of guests to the September 11 terrorist attacks

and their aftermath. Regular people, many of whom witnessed the World Trade Center attacks in New York City, describe where they were, what…

Women of '69: Unboxed - Women from the Sixties Share their Stories

A portrait of a doctor who saw the worst of society. The Last Happy Day is an experimental documentary portrait of

Sandor (Alexander) Lenard, a Hungarian medical doctor and a distant cousin of filmmaker Lynne Sachs. In 1938 Lenard,

a writer with a Jewish background, fled the Nazis to a…

Intimate, personalized portrait of women of the 1960s through the eyes of one colorful class that graduated in 1969 -

same year as Hillary Clinton - and recently turned 65, starting to explore the New Old Age.

At a time when these Boomers' parents were asking less of themselves, many…

In My lifetime

Directed by a former ABC network news executive producer, In My Lifetime provides a comprehensive look at the full scope and

impact of the nuclear age from its beginnings to the present day, including the international efforts by citizens, scientists and

political leaders to reduce or eliminate the nuclear threat.…

Nagasaki Journey

Produced by Emmy Award-winning filmmakers, Nagasaki Journey is a powerful, yet hopeful look at the immediate and

continuing aftermath of the atomic bomb droppedAugust 9, 1945 on Nagasaki, Japan. The film tells the moving personal stories of two Japanese survivors and

a U.S. Marine, who was one of the first…

Rain of Ruin

The Liberators - An Art Detective Tracks Down Missing Treasure

This powerful video features a comprehensive examination of one of the most important, yet little-understood episodes in modern history -

the several months leading up to the atomic bombings of Japan, which both ended World War II and shaped the world's geo-political landscape for the next 50 years.

To compel…

Gravitas Ventures*

Medieval art treasures seized by the Nazis go missing at the end of World War II. Were they destroyed in the chaos of the final battles?

Or were these thousand-year-old masterpieces stolen by advancing American troops? For over forty years, the mystery remained unsolved.

A true detective story, THE LIBERATORS…

Roe Vs Wade

Part of the Series: Supreme Court Decisions That Changed The Nation Series

The controversial case that legalized abortion.

A Common Purpose

Long Night's Journey into Day - South Africa's Search for Truth and Reconciliation

"You've got to be kidding: you can't have 25 people convicted of killing one man. Even in South Africa, that's ludicrous." -

Andrea Durbach, Solicitor Twenty-five people are convicted of the murder of one man, fourteen are sentenced to hang,

one lawyer is assassinated and the other goes into exile.…

Global Gay - The Universal Decriminalization of Homosexuality

(Academy Award Nominee for Documentary Feature) Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffmann reveal

the raw soul of a society in their extraordinary documentary about South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

After the end of apartheid's 40-year reign, South Africa was thrown into ethical turmoil when those who enforced its violent…

Georgie Girl - The First Transgender Woman to be Elected as a Member of Parliament in the World

A global revolution is underway to obtain what UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and Barack Obama call

'the final frontier in human rights': the universal decriminalization of homosexuality.

Homosexuality is forbidden in almost half of the world. Out of 196 UN member states, there are 7 where it is…

Four Corners - Trump Russia

Georgina Beyer is a transgender woman and former sex-worker who was elected to the New Zealand Government by a largely white, rural electorate.

GEORGIE GIRL traces Georgina Beyer's colorful path --

her rural past, born as George and raised on a farm, through periods of drug use and sex work,…

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

It's the story of the century, investigating the US President and his connections to Russia.

In a Four Corners special series, award-winning investigative reporter Sarah Ferguson follows the spies and the money trail

from Washington, to London, to Moscow. Four Corners delivers a riveting account of the allegations and evidence…

Brazil, A Time to Build - Challenges Facing Brazil's Reconstructive Efforts

The Brave Class - The Power of Political Speech

South America's geographic giant is polarized due to seemingly endless corruption investigations and a less than optimistic economic recovery. .

In an accessible and constructive way, twelve interviewees seek to bring a renewed type of debate about Brazil

in the 21st century through broader themes such as corruption, racism and…

Hermanos - Siblings - The American Dream Beyond the Wall

What hides beneath a political speech? Can the world be changed with words?

THE BRAVE CLASS reveals the methods of political language in our way of understanding the world.

We comprehend reality through an invisible and yet extremely important filter: language. THE BRAVE CLASS is a social experime

A Gleam In The Dark - Sol de Noche

This is the story of two Mexican brothers that want to go back to the US after being deported for life, and the story of an American woman

who lost her house but believes she can get it back because of President Trump's campaign promises. Their journeys take them on…

The Metal Stork - Salvadorian Civil War Victims Reconcile with Their Past

In 1976, during the Argentine military dictatorship, an event called the Night of the Blackout occured in Ledesma.
This blackout was a well coordinated connivance between the military government and powerful economic interests.

During the blackout, 400 people who were deemed troublesome because of their activism either against the

The Rock - The Isolation of Gibraltar From Spain

During El Salvador's civil war, rural kids Ana Lilian, Ricardo, and Blanca witnessed

the murder of their families and grieved as a military helicopter determined their fate.

Now, they try to reconnect with their long-lost families, hoping to reconcile their pasts and bring peace to the present. Official Selection at…

The Death of Pinochet - The Chilean Reaction to the Death of General Pinochet

Despite being declared enemies by their countries, people in the Rock of Gibraltar and La Linea depended on each other, got married,

and lived with their bilingual children. But Franco's decision to close entrance to the British territory forced the separation of thousands of mixed families.

THE ROCK examines the…

Through the Crosshairs - Reading the Weaponized Gaze

On December 10, 2006, General Pinochet died unexpectedly. His death reawakened the political divisions that marked Chile's recent history.

This documentary exposes the people's reactions during the first 24 hours, constructing an intimate and surprising portrait of Chilean society.

Nominated for Best Documentary at the Warsaw International Film Festival. Jury…

Gideon Vs Wainwright & Miranda Vs Arizona

In recent years, weapon-cam footage from distant wars has invaded the screens of civilian life.

Now the crosshairs of the drone, smart bomb, helicopter gunship, satellite, and sniper scope have

become a dominant window through which we see and "experience" war. Drawing from his book on this phenomenon, Dr. Roger…

Part of the Series: Supreme Court Decisions That Changed The Nation Series

Two decisions clarifying the rights of the accused.

Brown Vs Board Of Education

Part of the Series: Supreme Court Decisions That Changed The Nation Series

The unanimous overruling of Plessy v. Ferguson, declaring segregation in public schools unconstitutional.

Marbury Vs Madison

Part of the Series: Supreme Court Decisions That Changed The Nation Series

The ground breaking decision, written by Chief Justice John Marshall and clarifying the power of the judiciary.

Mcculloch Vs Maryland

Part of the Series: Supreme Court Decisions That Changed The Nation Series

The national bank case that established the "implied powers" of our federal government.

Plessy Vs Ferguson

Part of the Series: Supreme Court Decisions That Changed The Nation Series

The decision that gave legal justification to segregation, invoking the concept of "separate but equal."

U.S. Vs Nixon

Part of the Series: Supreme Court Decisions That Changed The Nation Series

The decision stating that the president cannot claim executive privilege to withhold evidence in a criminal investigation.

Peace Officer - The Militarized State of American Police

Peace Officer LLC

A feature documentary about the increasingly militarized state of American police as told through the story of William "Dub" Lawrence,

a former sheriff who established and trained his rural state's first SWAT team only to see that same

unit kill his son-in-law in a controversial standoff 30 years later. Driven…

I Will Be Murdered - Murder in Guatemala

Unveiled: The Kohistan Video Scandal - A Pakistani "Honor Killing"

A murder story, a love story and a thriller. In May 2009, Rodrigo Rosenberg, a wealthy, charismatic lawyer went cycling near his home in Guatemala City

and was murdered. Nothing unusual there: Guatemala has a murder rate four times higher than Mexico's, worse in fact than Iraq's for civilians during…

Portraits of a Search - Victims of Mexican Drug Wars

The honour killing story revealing the conflict between constitutional and tribal justice and the faultlines in Pakistani society.

When a mobile phone video goes viral showing four girls clapping while two boys dance in a remote village in Kohistan, rumours emerge that the local tribal jirga has

The IF Project - The Rising Number of Incarcerated Women

Natividad, Guadalupe and Margarita's children have vanished into thin air, leaving them among the thousands of mothers

who are victims of the senseless drug wars in Mexico. With each missing person, a family is left behind in a desperate search to get answers from a government that is suspiciously ambivalent.…

Collective Eye Films

In the United States, there are over 6.8 million people in prison, jail, on probation or parole.

That is 1 in every 35 adults. Perhaps even more alarming is that women are the fastest growing segment of the incarcerated population,

increasing at nearly double the rate of men since 1985.…

U.S v. Narciso, Perez & the Press

Michigan State University Technologies

Using interviews, archival video and photos, and FBI documents obtained via FOIA, U.S. v. Narciso, Perez & the Press is a half-hour documentary

that reconstructs the trial of two Filipina nurses convicted of poisoning patients in the VA Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI in the 1970s. During a six-week period…

A Jail in Colombia

A look inside the La Modelo prison in Bogota. Colombia. Called a "model" prison by Colombia officials the prison in reality is controlled more

by the prisoners than the guards. With 5000 prisoners for 2400 spots, and not more than 150 security guards assigned to the prison. The prison is…

Excess of Sexual Tourism

In Cuba, Santo Domingo, and Cambodia, sexual tourism has become a booming industry.

Men, women, and children prostitute themselves to survive in an economically ravaged country.

A mostly Western male and female clientele, aficionados of exotic sex and even pedophiles use and abuse their financial superiority to satisy their basest…

Shame on you

To response to acts of delinquency and criminal offenses the US states of Texas, Tennessee, and Missouri have resorted to public humiliation in lew of jail time.

The basic idea in quite simple, once they have been arrested, the offenders must choose between jail or public humiliation. The public humiliation…

Saving Andrew Mallard

Artemis International

70 year old Grace Mallard refuses to believe her son Andrew is guilty of murder. 11 years ago Andrew was put away for life for the murder of a local jeweler.
Over the course of a decade, Grace and her devastated family doggedly fight on to set him free. Along…

Chinese Murder Mystery

Es el Chapo - The Arrest of a Notorious Drug Kingpin

In November 2011, public school educated Neil Percival Heywood, reportedly died of alcohol poisoning in the Lucky Holiday Hotel,

in a remote Chinese city. His death, virtually unnoticed at the time, has gone on to shake China's Communist Party

to the core. For the first time on television, Dispatches exposes…

Charlie Minn Films

This documentary probes the truth behind the 2014 arrest of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the world's most notorious drug lord.

George Stoney Police Films

Concrete, Steel & Paint - A Film About Crime, Restoration and Healing

These films are a view of police officers as instruments for social service for all rather than just law enforcement bringing down on criminals the punishment of the law.

They were made for use during group discussions where the police could share their immediate experiences with one

Chasing Bonnie & Clyde - When Texas Gets Smart-on-Crime

When men in a state prison join with victims of crime to create a mural about healing, their views on punishment, remorse, and forgiveness collide.

Finding consensus is not easy - but as the participants move through the creative process, mistrust gives way to surprising moments of human contact and…

Long Road Back

Vision Video

Long Road Back seeks to reduce the fear and stigma experienced by those re-entering society after serving a term in prison.

Lumento Films

This powerful film odyssey across the Mid West explores the mentality change in the Texas justice system from tough-on-crime solutions to the latest smart-on-crime programs that offer second chance to the criminals. Prison, violence, denial are no longer required to deal with modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. Back in the 1930s,…

School Prayer: A Community at War

The Price of Honor - The Murders of Amina and Sarah Said

A Mississippi mother of six sues her local school district to remove intercom prayer and Bible classes from the public schools. Christian community members rally against her to protect their time-honored tradition of religious practices in the schools. Both sides claim they are fighting for religious freedom. This case extends…

Smart Lips Media

The Price of Honor is a documentary film about the murders of Amina and Sarah Said, teenage sisters from Lewisville, Texas, who were killed in a premeditated "honor killing" in 2008. The film chronicles the lives of the sisters and the path to their eventual murders by their own father,…

June Bride - Redemption of a Yakuza

First Pond

The June Bride is not your ordinary bar. And former Yakuza mobster Tatsuya Shindo is about the furthest thing from your ordinary pastor. After Shindo falls into a life of crime and repeated imprisonment, he finds that religion is his ultimate ticket to redemption. So, Shindo cuts off his pinkie

Assaulted - Civil Rights Under Fire

Gravitas Ventures

Newtown school shooting. Aurora theater shooting. Tucson supermarket shooting. Are visceral reactions to tragedies trumping the words of our forefathers?

Should we allow fear and the growing concern over public safety to limit our civil liberties? Dead Patriot Films presents Assaulted Civil Rights Under Fire, a documentary that brings audiences…

Verdict on Auschwitz - The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial

DEFA Film Library

The only documentary on the Auschwitz Trial held in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, from 1963 to 1965.

Based on 430 hours of original audiotapes, this production is an unparellel document of the first Auschwitz Trial.

In one of the most significant trials in German legal history, 360 witnesses from…

Verdict on Auschwitz - Abridged - The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial

DEFA Film Library

The only documentary on the Auschwitz Trial held in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, from 1963 to 1965. Based on 430 hours of original audiotapes,

this production is an unparalleled document of the first Auschwitz Trial.

In one of the most significant trials in German legal history, 360 witnesses from…

Normal - Real Stories from the Sex Industry

Kareron

A documentary that brings the real life stories of male, female and transgender migrants working in the sex industry to the screen.

Drawing on original interviews with people working in the sex industry in Albania, Italy

and the UK, documentary director and anthropologist Nicola Mai reveals thei

Roses in December - The Murder of Three American Nuns in El Salvador

On December 2, 1980 lay missioner Jean Donovan and three American nuns were brutally murdered by members of El Salvador's security force.

This "sensitive, marvelously constructed film" (Catholic New York) chronicles Jean's life, from her affluent childhood in Connecticut,

to her decision to volunteer with the Maryknolls in El Salvador,…

Chosen

The Reckoning - The Battle for the International Criminal Court

In December 2013 Peter Wright was convicted of 12 offences against children committed at Caldicott while he was head teacher.

He and Hugh Henry, who pleaded guilty to abusing Mark Payge and others, were due to be sentenced in Feb 2014, but Hugh Henry was killed by a train in…

Grounded - One of the Largest Marijuana Smuggling Operations in US History

Late in the 20th century, in response to repeated mass atrocities that convulsed the world, more than 120 countries united

to form the International Criminal Court (ICC)--the first permanent, independent (treaty based) international criminal court created

to prosecute perpetrators (no matter how powerful) of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and…

Waco: The Rules of Engagement

This is the high-flying, true story of Pittsburgh brothers Jimmy and Terry Dougherty,

who became famous in the 1970's when they were involved in one of the largest marijuana smuggling operations in the United States.

Jimmy worked the ground crew and Terry was the pilot whose aviation skills helped expand…

Riding With Madonna - A Canadian Police Woman

Waco: The Rules of Engagement is the first full-length documentary film to present the complete picture of the series of events outside Waco,

Texas during 1993 that resulted in the shooting of 4 federal agents and the deaths of 86 men, women, and children of the Branch Davidian religious sect.

Odd Squad Productions

Linda Stewart is a police officer who has an amazing career on the mean streets of Vancouver.

Her passion for both policing and the people she connects with earns her the nickname 'Madonna'.

Come on a virtual ridealong: watch in awe as she softly talks a jumper off a bridge…

Other People's Footage - Copyright and Fair Use

Carson Johnson Productions

This film explores the three questions crucial to determining fair use exemptions and presents illustrative examples from nonfiction, fiction,

and experimental films that use pre-existing footage, music and sound from other individuals' creations--without permission or paying fees.

Through on-camera interviews with noted documentarians, film and legal experts, OPF also reviews…

Grinders - The Underground World of Illegal Poker

Aimee's Crossing - Young Women in the Juvenile Justice System

With a new baby and wife to support, out-of-work

filmmaker Matt Gallagher tries his hand - and some would say "luck"- at playing poker for a living.

This inside journey into the unconventional, often bizarre,

underground world of illegal poker clubs finds a world populated by colourful characters, straight out…

Asanas in the Yard

Mind Heart Lens

A former convict who discovered yoga and meditation in prison, recounts and elaborates on the peace he has come to today.

Nomadic Pictures

In this provocative, intimate, and emotionally-charged portrait, filmmaker Tod Lending follows juvenile offender Aimee Myers

for four years as she struggles to stay out of incarceration and overcome her addictions.

The Governor of Illinois granted Lending unprecedented access to a female juvenile prison in order to tell the story in…

The System - Policing and Mass Incarceration

Part of the Series: America Divided

Common returns to his hometown of Chicago - a city on fire in the aftermath of the brutal police killing of teenager Laquan McDonald.

With thousands of people in the streets, Chicago has become the epicenter of national debates around police violence, racism and accountability.

Working with community activists and…

Fallen - Officers Killed in the Line of Duty

Gravitas

In the United States, a Police Officer is killed in the line of duty every 53 hours.

Behind these numbers are countless unsung stories of both tragedy and triumph overshadowed by negative headlines and criticism at every turn.

Pulling back the curtain on this polarizing topic, Fallen rises above divisive…

The Farm, Angola Prison USA - Inside One of America's Most Famous Prisons

The Wildest Show in the South - The Angola Prison Rodeo

There are three things Angola will do to a man. Number one: it will bring you to the crossroads of a turning point.

Number two: it will harden you. Number three: it will kill you. So tells Eugene Tannehill,

inmate of the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, the largest maximum…

Circle Up - Mothers Seeking Justice for Their Murdered Sons

This follow-up to the 1998 Oscar nominated doc

"The Farm: Angola USA" tells the only story that couldn't be included in the original Angola documentary.

Every Sunday in October, the Louisiana State Penitentiary hosts one of America's most unusual events.

Amateur inmate cowboys risk their lives to participate in this…

The War At Home - Resistance to the Vietnam War

This is the powerful story of a group of Boston mothers who seek true justice for their sons' murders.

For these women, justice is not about revenge or mass incarceration but about healing, accountability, and community peace.

This documentary speaks to the practice and power of restorative justice. After the…

Catalyst Media

This Oscar-nominated documentary tells the story of the impact of the war in Vietnam on one American town,

using the Midwestern city of Madison, Wisconsin as a microcosm for the 1960s Antiwar Movement.

Over twenty interviews with antiwar activists, university and police officials, Vietnam veterans, community members and others illuminate…

Fearless - The Stories of Those Who Disappeared During the Guatemalan Civil War

Washington/Peru: We Ain't Winning!

A group of relatives of people who disappeared during the Guatemalan military dictatorship requested and obtained, among many other measures of compensation,

the production of a documentary film describing the events by the State. It was in 2012 when

the Inter-American Court for Human Rights condemned for the first time…

Marcus Garvey - A Giant Of Black Politics

In Washington/Peru: We Ain't Winning!, producer David Feingold and director Shari Robertson investigate the situation in Peru in the early 1990s -

a case that, according to one U.S. congressman, "defies all description and solution."

Internal conflict rages between the government and Shining Path communist guerillas, while the United States…

The Barber of Birmingham - Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement

Black Nationalist pioneer and First Hero of Jamaica, Marcus Garvey is discussed by contemporaries, historians, family and friends.
The film traces his early successes in organizing West Indian contract labor, to the phenomenal rise of his

Universal Negro Improvement Association, which took America by storm in the 20s. Garvey was

PACmen - Super-PAC Support for Dr. Ben Carson

In Academy Award nominated The Barber of Birmingham, 85 year-old barber and life-long civil rights activist

James Armstrong looks back on the early days of the civil rights movement and links those struggles with a previously unimaginable dream --

the election of the first African-American president. Armstrong was the proud…

Gunpowder & Sky

An unprecedented look at the men behind the Super-PACs that persuaded Dr. Ben Carson to run for President and their efforts to catapult him to the top of the polls. Official Selection at the Hot Docs Festival. Nominated for the Documentary Foundation Australia Award at the Sydney Film Festival. "A…

Sweet Death

In the Intimacy of a Presidential Campaign

Terrorism is the main threat to the worlds order. The most dangerous weapon of terror is a suicide-attacker or a so-called suicide bomber.
What makes young people do so? The authors of the film are looking for an answer to this question investigating the history of activities of religious sects,…

Upside Television

In the Intimacy of a Presidential Campaign brings a unique point of view on a man, his family and their intimacy:

when the presidential staff is heading home and the political advisers are no longer there, when the mics are off and the cameras are not rolling, in the solitude…

Barack Obama

Part of the Series: ICONS: Big Star Profiles

Barack Obama will always have the distinction of being the first African American to be elected President of the United States,
securing his place as one of the most recognized political Icons in the world. How he accomplished this is an incredible story.

From his earliest days working as a…

Not My Life - The Global Impact of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery

Worldwide Documentaries

Not My Life is the first film to depict the cruel and dehumanizing practices of human trafficking and modern slavery on a global scale.

Filmed on five continents, in a dozen countries, Not My Life takes viewers into a world where millions of children are exploited, every day, through an…

Wheelchair Diaries: One Step Up - An Exploration of the Lack of Handicapped Accessibility in Europe

Washington's War on Women - Sexism and Harrassment in the U.S. Capital

Reid Davenport's breakout film that explores the lack of accessibility in Europe. It is an award-winning documentary

that has been shown coast-to-coast and internationally. The film has been featured in the Washington Post, NPR and USA Today.

When Reid Davenport was discouraged from studying abroad during his junior year of…

Episode 1 of America Divided Season Two

Gretchen Carlson, who won a high profile victory with her opposition to the pervasive sexual harassment at Fox News,

takes viewers to the halls of Congress to uncover an endemic culture of sexual harassment there held in place

for decades by a deeply flawed system. Carlson meets the survivors stepping…

The President vs. the Pirates - Politics in Somalia

Electric Pictures

Twenty years of civil war and crippling drought have torn the once-prosperous East African nation of Somalia to shreds.

And now pirates and terrorists are destroying what remains of civil society.

As the turmoil continues fears are raised that it is breeding extremism and unending clan warfare. Enter Abdirahman Farole,…

The War Around Us

Occupation: Native - Biting Back at Australian History

The War Around Us tells the absorbing true story of the only two international journalists on the ground in

Gaza during Israel's bombardment and invasion of the troubled Palestinian territory over a three-week period in 2008-9.

Award-winning filmmaker Abdallah Omeish (Occupation 101) chronicles the experiences of Al Jazeera's Cairo-born, Arab-American…

Freedom on my Mind - Mississippi Voter Registration in the 1960's

The Aboriginal story has been buried deep beneath the 247-year-old accepted Australian narrative.

In OCCUPATION: NATIVE, Aboriginal filmmaker Trisha Morton-Thomas, bites back at Australian history.

Captain James Cook, a hero to most Australians but a thief to Aboriginal people, stole the continent with a British flag. Of course, the Aboriginal…

Clarity Films

In 1961 Mississippi was a virtual South African enclave within the United States. Everything is segregated.

There are virtually no black voters. Bob Moses, enters the state and the Voter Registration Project begins.

The first black farmer who attempts to register is fatally shot by a Mississippi State Representative. But…

Holy Man - A Wrongly Imprisoned Native American Man

The Sunshine Makers - The Unlikely Duo at the Heart of 60s Drug Counterculture

This is the story of Douglas White, an 89 year old Lakota Sioux medicine man from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota,

who spent 17 years in federal prison for a crime he did not commit.

During the making of this film, filmmakers uncovered new evidence of White's "actual…

FilmRise

A real-life Breaking Bad for the psychedelic set, THE SUNSHINE MAKERS reveals the untold story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully,

the unlikely duo at the heart of the 1960s American drug counterculture. United in a utopian mission to save the planet

through the consciousness-raising power of LSD called orange…

Punitive Damage - The Story of A Death in East Timor & the Power of A Mother’s Grief

Jihad Selfie - ISIS Recruitment via Social Media in Indonesia

Kamal Bamadhaj, a 20-year-old New Zealander and student activist was shot dead during the Dili massacre in East Timor in 1991
by the Indonesian military that had occupied the small former Portuguese colony since 1975.

Over 270 young Timorese were also killed that day. Punitive Damage tells the story of…

Yayasan Prasasti Perdamaian

This documentary follows the life of a 16-year-old teenager from Indonesia, Teuku Akbar Maulana.

Akbar received a scholarship from the Turkish government to study in Kayseri, Turkey.

Two of his high school friends, who are also Indonesian citizens, have joined ISIS through social media. Over the course of the film…

Dispatches From Cleveland - Communities Fighting for Social Change

Code of the West - Marijuana and the Political Process

This documentary closely examines the rust-belt city of Cleveland, one of the most racially divided American cities in the wake of the police murder of

Tamir Rice. DISPATCHES FROM CLEVELAND follows ordinary people - long shaken by police misconduct, social discrimination, and poverty -

whose love for their home pushes…

In Name of Democracy: America's Conscience, A Soldier's Sacrifice

At a time when the world is rethinking its drug policies large and small, one state rises to the forefront.

Once a pioneer in legalizing medical marijuana, the state of Montana may now become the first to repeal its medical marijuana law.

Set against the sweeping vistas of the Rockies,…

Daedalus Productions

A feature documentary about the remarkable case of Lt. Ehren Watada, the first officer in the US Army to refuse to deploy to Iraq on moral grounds.

The film delves into the lead up to and US entry into the Iraq war, and features Lt. Watada, his parents, his attorney,…

The World Without Us

Deep Waters Films

This feature length documentary debates the implications and consequences of US military involvement in the world today.

From an isolationist nation at the end of World War One, the US today has bases in over ninety countries.

No other nation has been able to project military power as the US…

A History of Conflict: WWII - Iraq War

This series from the Veteran Documentary Corps includes interviews and profiles of a number of '

American military personnel from various international confrontations over the years from WWI to the Vietnam War and Iraq, recounting their experiences before,

Vietnam Experience

This "Vietnam Experience" series from the Veteran Documentary Corps includes interviews and profiles of a number of

American military personnel who were engaged in the Vietnam war. Through their accounts on their experiences,

we get an appreciation for what it meant to be part of the war movement and what…

Women in the Military

Women in the Military profile three veteran's stories:

Zoe Dunning: the first and only openly gay person allowed to remain on active duty in the military prior to the end of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy
Julie Mendez: explores veterans' issues and attempts to bridge the communication gap…

The Iraq Experience

My Father's Vietnam - The Psychological Burdens of War

The "Iqaq Experience" series from the Veteran Documentary Corps includes interviews and profiles of a number of

American military personnel who were engaged in the Iraq war.

Through their accounts on their experiences, we get an appreciation for what it meant to be part of the war movement, what it…

Gravitas Ventures

A personal documentary about a public subject, My Father's Vietnam personifies the connections made and unmade by the Vietnam War.

Featuring never-before-seen photographs and 8mm footage of the era, My Father's Vietnam is the story of three soldiers,

only one of whom returned home alive. Interviews with the filmmaker's Vietnam…

He Toki Huna: New Zealand in Afghanistan - Exploring NZ's Longest & Most Secretive War

Fidel - The Life and Leadership of Fidel Castro

He Toki Huna (title taken from Maori proverb, 'the hidden adze cuts the most sharply') explores Aotearoa New Zealand's longest military involvement --

the country's engagement in the war in Afghanistan. The documentary also provides context to some of Afghanistan's

turbulent history before and after the events of 9/11. The…

Cinema Libre Studio

In May 1968, just nine years after the Cuban Revolution, filmmaker Saul Landau was invited to join

Fidel Castro in Cuba for an unprecedented in-depth interview. Over the course of a week, Landau and Castro

traveled through the island's mountainous terrain through a variety of settings, from military camps to…

America Divided Season Two - In a Divided Country, Our Stories Unite Us

Divided Films

In a moment of great political and cultural turmoil, AMERICA DIVIDED, the docu-series executive produced by

Norman Lear, Gretchen Carlson and Jussie Smollett, returns in its second season to investigate many of

the most pressing stories of inequality and injustice facing our society: sexual harassment in Congress; equality for Native…

Invasion - A Diary of the 1989 U.S. Invasion of Panama

The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo - Oscar Zeta Acosta: From Latino Activist to Dr. Gonzo

The invasion of Panama by the U.S in 1989, when American troops deposed dictator Manuel Noriega, killing an unknown number of civilians in the process -

serves as an excuse to explore how a people remember, transform, and often forget their past in order re-define their identity and become who…

City Projects

This genre-defying film introduces the radical Chicano lawyer, author and counter-cultural icon, Oscar Zeta Acosta.

Acosta was the basis for Dr. Gonzo in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," written by his friend, the Hunter S. Thompson.

Channeling the psychedelic 60's and the irreverence of "Gonzo" journalism, THE RISE AND…

The Draft - An Award-Winning Play About the Vietnam War

The Eternauta's Wife - The Widow of an Unlikely Political Activist

An award-winning documentary play that explores one of the most contentious periods in American political history.

Filmed live on stage, THE DRAFT tells the story of the Vietnam War era through the real-life stories of 10 young Americans --

eight men and two women -- whose lives were shaped and…

Who Controls the Land - Bears Ears National Monument and the Fight for Native American Equality

It has been fifty years since the adventures of Juan Salvo were first published in the science fiction comic El Eternauta.

Some time in 1957, Argentine writer Hector German Oesterheld created a highly metaphorical and political graphic novel.

El Eternauta introduced a new way of understanding comic strips: it transcended…

Episode 2 of America Divided Season Two

Native American actor Martin Sensmeier travels to San Juan County, Utah, to investigate the controversy over the Bears Ears National Monument.

While there, he learns how the fight over the monument is just one more battle in a long-running war between

the county's Native American citizens and their Mormon neighbors…

Whose History? - The Reckoning over Confederate Monuments and the Racial Terror of Lynching

Episode 4 of America Divided Season Two

Jussie Smollett travels to Memphis, Tennessee to witness the growing movement to bring down Confederate monuments and commemorate
the deaths of thousands of African-Americans lynched during decades of racial terror. On his journey,

Jussie meets the brother of a lynching victim and becomes part of his seven-decade-long quest for justice…

Vietnam: The Secret Agent

Playground - An Investigation into the Multi-Million Dollar Pedophilia Industry

Using striking archive and war footage in support of interviews with veterans, scientists, attorneys, the U.S. Air Force,

the Veterans Administration, Dow Chemical and more; this film documents the extraordinary history of chemical warfare,

agricultural herbicides, damage to the world environment, and the plight of Vietnam veterans and their families…

How To Prepare For Prison - Facing Prison for the First Time

Co-produced by George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh and Grant Heslov, PLAYGROUND is a groundbreaking investigation

into the multi-million dollar pedophilia industry. Infiltrating the brothels of Asia, filmmaker Libby Spears

traces the sex tourists all the way back to America and discovers that it is as easy to buy a child in…

The Interrogation - Investigating False Confessions

Through stories fueled by fear, regret, defiance and redemption, HOW TO PREPARE FOR PRISON

takes a unique and intimate look at people caught in the legal system and facing prison for the first time.

By offering an intimate look at the lives and states of mind of those awaiting judgment,…

Life After Life - Personal Stories of Adjusting to Life After Incarceration

Why would someone confess to a crime they didn't commit? In America, nearly 30% of those exonerated by DNA tests had previously confessed.
For more than half a century, the Reid technique was the favored method of extracting confessions out of suspects.

This method of slowly building pressure often made…

Extreme Consequences - The Reality of Prison Life

This documentary follows the stories of Harrison, Noel, and Chris as they return home from San Quentin State Prison.

After spending most of their lives incarcerated, they are forced to reconcile their perception of themselves with a reality they are unprepared for.

Each struggles to overcome personal demons and reconstruct…

Chariot Productions

Extreme Consequences is aimed at keeping kids out of the penal system. It tackles the subjects of making choices and understanding consequences,

while addressing the underlying hurt and anger that all at-risk youth experience.

Filmed at Pelican Bay State Prison in California where Chariot Productions was given unprecedented access, Extreme…

Charles Manson - Superstar

In 1969, he became one of history's infamous villains, presented by the media as evil incarnate. Charles Manson -

Superstar sets the record straight after years of media disinformation, and features an exclusive interview with

Manson which allows him to speak for the first time without being censored or sanitized,…

Chosen

The Reckoning - The Battle for the International Criminal Court

In December 2013 Peter Wright was convicted of 12 offences against children committed at Caldicott while he was head teacher.

He and Hugh Henry, who pleaded guilty to abusing Mark Payge and others, were due to be sentenced in Feb 2014,

but Hugh Henry was killed by a train in…

Grounded - One of the Largest Marijuana Smuggling Operations in US History

Late in the 20th century, in response to repeated mass atrocities that convulsed the world, more than 120 countries united to form

the International Criminal Court (ICC)--the first permanent, independent (treaty based) international criminal court created to

prosecute perpetrators (no matter how powerful) of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and…

Waco: The Rules of Engagement

This is the high-flying, true story of Pittsburgh brothers Jimmy and Terry Dougherty, who became famous in the 1970's

when they were involved in one of the largest marijuana smuggling operations in the United States. Jimmy worked

the ground crew and Terry was the pilot whose aviation skills helped expand…

Give Up Tomorrow - Murder and Alleged Judicial Corruption in the Philippines

What Happened In Vegas - Fighting Police Corruption in Las Vegas

Simultaneously a murder-mystery and an expose of endemic corruption today,'

GIVE UP TOMORROW looks intimately at the case of Paco Larranaga,

a student accused of killing two sisters on the provincial island of Cebu.

In a way that is both specific to the country and disquietingly universal, the film exposes…

Advise & Dissent - Selecting Supreme Court justices

When filmmaker Ramsey Denison went to Las Vegas for a relaxing weekend, the last thing he expected

was to be arrested and beaten for reporting an incident of police brutality that he personally witnessed on the strip.

WHAT HAPPENED IN LAS VEGAS examines the lack of accountability within the Las…

Lumiere Productions

Government's least-understood "Third Branch" has a huge impact on our lives--from abortion to affirmative action,

education to the environment, privacy to police action.

But in recent years the way we select Supreme Court justices has become dangerously politicized, threatening judicial impartiality.

ADVISE & DISSENT is the first documentary to go…

Looking for Lara - A Guerrilla Fighter Struggling Against Brazilian Dictatorship

Inside China 5: China Rich And Poor

Lara Lavelberg -- a young, beautiful and highly-refined Jewish woman --

left a comfortable life to engage in the violent struggle against a military dictatorship in Brazil. Living underground,

Lavelberg became the lover of former army captain, Carlos Lamarca, and became one of the government's primary targets. Throug

Part of the Series: Inside China Collection

A big principle of socialism is equality, but China's new society has glaring inequalities.

The communist party calls it "socialism with Chinese characteristics" but, in the rush for growth,

have they created a society far harsher than western capitalism?

COMMUNISM COMES TO IKEA The new China now has a growing…

By the Bluest of Seas

Ruscico - Russian Cinema Council

By the Bluest of Seas is a 1935 Soviet film directed by Boris Barnet.

Two workers are shipwrecked on an enchanted island in the Caspian Sea, rescued by the benign sirens of

the beach kolkhoz known as Beacon of Communism.

The men compete for the affections of the same vivacious…

Urban Warrior

The Highest Court - Behind the Scenes at the High Court of Australia

Within recent years, the formerly bright line separating U.S. military operations from domestic police work has become increasingly blurred.

From Waco to the WTO protests, weaponry and tactics once reserved for the battlefield have been used in police operations on U.S. soil.

"Urban Warrior" investigates the debate over the use…

The Highest Court - Behind the Scenes at the High Court of Australia

Most Australians know about the Mabo and Wik decisions, but few know much about the decision makers --

The High Court of Australia. Having gained historic access,

THE HIGHEST COURT shows first hand the characters and drama of the High Court of Australia,

the pinnacle of legal and constitutional processes…

Most Australians know about the Mabo and Wik decisions, but few know much about the decision makers --

The High Court of Australia. Having gained historic access, THE HIGHEST COURT shows first hand the characters and drama

of the High Court of Australia, the pinnacle of legal and constitutional processes…

Who Owns the Past?

Jed Riffe Films

The final decades of the twentieth century brought unprecedented changes for American Indians,

especially in the areas of human rights and tribal sovereignty. In 1990, after a long struggle between

Indian rights groups and the scientific establishment, the Native American Graves Repatriation and Protection Act was passed. For American Indians,…

Zapatista

The Most Dangerous Man in America - Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

January 1, 1994. The day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect.

A few minutes after midnight in Southeastern Mexico, several thousand Mayan soldiers take over half the state of Chiapas,

declaring a war against the global corporate power they say rules Mexico. They call themselves the…

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist,

concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to

The New York Times, making headlines around the world.

THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA is a riveting story…

We'll Never Turn Back

Ulises' Odyssey - Family Secrets and the History of Chile

WE'LL NEVER TURN BACK was filmed in Mississippi in 1963 during the dangerous voter registration drives of that era.

Amzie Moore, a Mississippi NAACP activist, escorted the film maker through rural Mississippi interviewing share croppers

and activists in the voter registration campaign. Appearing in the film are Student Non-Violent Coordinating…

Andes Media

Chilean filmmaker Lorena Manriquez embarks on a journey to search for the truth behind a 30-year rift between her father and her uncle Ulises.

The two brothers were on opposite sides in the 1973 military coup that brought General Pinochet

to power in Chile and Ulises to exile in Switzerland.…

Answering the Call - The American Struggle for the Right to Vote

Brian Jenkins

The bloody attacks of protestors in Selma in 1965 led to the historic protection of all Americans' right to vote.

The film explores a cherished family story of Selma and the current state of voter suppression in America. Fifty one years ago, the nation watched in horror as bloody images…

Heist - Who Stole the American Dream?

Donald Goldmacher

This investigative documentary reveals how American corporations orchestrated the dismantling of middle-class prosperity through rampant deregulation,

the outsourcing of jobs, and tax policies favoring businesses and the wealthy. HEIST exposes the roots of the American economic crisis

and the destruction of the American dream. The collapse of the U

Occupation: Native - Biting Back at Australian History

UN: Impunity for All - An Investigation of UN Scandals

The Aboriginal story has been buried deep beneath the 247-year-old accepted Australian narrative.

In OCCUPATION: NATIVE, Aboriginal filmmaker Trisha Morton-Thomas, bites back at Australian history. Captain James Cook,

a hero to most Australians but a thief to Aboriginal people, stole the continent with a British flag. Of course, the Aboriginal…

Conspiracy - An Investigation of Sydney’s 1978 Hotel Bombing

It's considered a temple of global diplomacy and the world's largest humanitarian organization. But for decades, one scandal after another has battered the UN's reputation.

From the oil-for-food scandal in Iraq, to claims it was responsible for the cholera epidemic in Haiti and multiple accusations of waste, corruption and unaccountability…

An Island Calling - The Brutal Killing of a Prominent Gay Couple in Fiji

Australia was rocked in 1978 by the explosion of a massive bomb placed in a rubbish bin outside the Sydney Hilton Hotel.

A dramatic reinvestigation of this unsolved crime. On the 13th of February 1978 at 12:40 am, a massive bomb which had been placed in the rubbish

Give Up Tomorrow - Murder and Alleged Judicial Corruption in the Philippines

On July 1, 2001, John Scott and his partner Greg Scrivener were killed in their home in Suva Fiji. John, from an old European-Fiji family and educated in New Zealand,

was the Director-General of the Fiji Red Cross and worked as a go-between in the hostage crisis during the coup…

What Happened In Vegas - Fighting Police Corruption in Las Vegas

Simultaneously a murder-mystery and an expose of endemic corruption today, GIVE UP TOMORROW looks intimately at the case of Paco Larranaga,

a student accused of killing two sisters on the provincial island of Cebu. In a way that is both specific to the country and disquietingly universal, the film exposes…

Advise & Dissent - Selecting Supreme Court justices

When filmmaker Ramsey Denison went to Las Vegas for a relaxing weekend, the last thing he expected was to be arrested and beaten for reporting an incident of

police brutality that he personally witnessed on the strip.

WHAT HAPPENED IN LAS VEGAS examines the lack of accountability within the Las…

Lumiere Productions

Government's least-understood "Third Branch" has a huge impact on our lives--from abortion to affirmative action,

education to the environment, privacy to police action. But in recent years the way we select Supreme Court justices has become dangerously politicized,

threatening judicial impartiality. ADVISE & DISSENT is the first documentary to go…

Looking for Lara - A Guerrilla Fighter Struggling Against Brazilian Dictatorship

Inside China 5: China Rich And Poor

Lara Lavelberg -- a young, beautiful and highly-refined Jewish woman --

left a comfortable life to engage in the violent struggle against a military dictatorship in Brazil. Living underground,

Lavelberg became the lover of former army captain, Carlos Lamarca, and became one of the government's primary targets. Through a personal…

Part of the Series: Inside China Collection

A big principle of socialism is equality, but China's new society has glaring inequalities.

The communist party calls it "socialism with Chinese characteristics" but, in the rush for growth,

have they created a society far harsher than western capitalism? COMMUNISM COMES TO IKEA The new China now has a growing…

By the Bluest of Seas

Ruscico - Russian Cinema Council

By the Bluest of Seas is a 1935 Soviet film directed by Boris Barnet.

Two workers are shipwrecked on an enchanted island in the Caspian Sea, rescued by the benign sirens of the beach kolkhoz known as Beacon of Communism.

The men compete for the affections of the same vivacious…

Urban Warrior

The Highest Court - Behind the Scenes at the High Court of Australia

Within recent years, the formerly bright line separating U.S. military operations from domestic police work has become increasingly blurred.

From Waco to the WTO protests, weaponry and tactics once reserved for the battlefield have been used in police operations on

U.S. soil. "Urban Warrior" investigates the debate over the use…

Message From Hiroshima - Remembering the Life & Culture of Hiroshima Before the Bombing

Most Australians know about the Mabo and Wik decisions, but few know much about the decision makers --

The High Court of Australia.

Having gained historic access, THE HIGHEST COURT shows first hand the characters and drama of

the High Court of Australia, the pinnacle of legal and constitutional processes…

Cinema Libre Studio

MESSAGE FROM HIROSHIMA illustrates the immense suffering and loss that resulted when the world's first atomic bomb detonated in the historic city of Hiroshima.

Today, where the Hon and Motoyasu rivers meet, stands the Peace Memorial Park --

the former location of the Nakajima district, which was once home to…

A Voice to be Heard - Indigenous Australians Elect Members to the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee

American Socialist - The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs

In 1973, for the first time, Aboriginal people from across Australia directly elected members to

the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee (NACC),

a body set up to represent their interests to the Federal government,

via the newly created Department of Aboriginal Affairs. A VOICE TO BE HEARD tells the story of…

RFK in the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope

Prolific filmmaker and ethnographer Yale Strom has turned his attention to an early American political hero: Eugene Victor Debs.

Bernie Sanders inspired a generation - but who inspired him? Most people in America don't know

that the contemporary political movement to address income inequality began over 100 years ago with…

The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt

Featuring never before seen archival footage, and interviews in South Africa and the United States, filmmakers Larry Shore and Tami Gold tell the little-known

story of Senator Robert Kennedy's influential June 1966 visit to South Africa during the worst years of Apartheid. The film is a unique portrait of Senator…

Flicker Alley

The youngest president in our nation's history, who brought an unprecedented excitement and power to the office, the life of America's 26th president,

Theodore Roosevelt, makes any fiction pale by comparison. His was the life of a magnificent maverick - a man of enormous popularity and legendary achievements. From the…

In the Executioner's Shadow - Justice, Injustice and the Death Penalty

Mr Neal is Entitled to be an Agitator

A documentary that casts a penetrating look at the consequences of the death penalty through three powerful stories -

the rare perspective of a former state executioner who comes within days of executing an innocent person;

a Boston Marathon bombing victim who struggles to decide what justice really means; and…

Michael Kirby: Don't Forget the Justice Bit

A documentary film about the late High Court Judge Mr Justice Lionel Murphy,

concentrating in particular on the events and allegations of the last four years of his life --

allegations of his supposed misbehaviour. Murphy was at the centre of an historic battle to retain his position on the…

Canadian Law and Government Series

Michael Kirby was recently listed by the Bulletin magazine as one of the top ten creative minds, then again in

the top 100 of the most influential Australians of all time and more recently Who Weekly put him as one of the top 25 of the most beautiful people -

Kinetic Video

This program provides a fun and colourful look at the nuts-and-bolts of our governing bodies in Canada

Understanding Canadian Government

Part of the Series: Canadian Law and Government Series

This program provides a fun and colourful look at the nuts-and-bolts of our governing bodies in Canada -

namely the federal and provincial governments. Features energetic young hosts, and includes a huge variety of animations, diagrams, archive government footage

and upbeat music. Carefully organized into quickly accessible DVD

Understanding Canadian Law

Part of the Series: Canadian Law and Government Series

This dynamic and colourful program provides a solid foundation for understanding Canada's justice system.

Featuring exciting animations, navigational diagrams, upbeat music and a young, energetic host,

this modern approach offers a primer on law in Canada and our court systems.

Understanding Local Government in Canada

Part of the Series: Canadian Law and Government Series

Take an exciting tour and find out how our local governments work in Canada.

This easy to follow and fast-paced program offers a comprehensive ride through the structure of municipal governments and agencies like school boards.

Suitable for audiences including civics courses and other studies in social science. This program's…

Beneath The Blindfold - The Lifelong Impact of Torture

Film Ideas

With a gentle yet insistent voice, Beneath the Blindfold tells the stories of four torture survivors from around the globe who are now among

the more than 500,000 survivors who live in the U.S. It is the first documentary to fully look at the lifelong impact of torture on the…

Jonestown - The Life & Death of Peoples Temple

The Ties That Bind - A Powerful Meditation on Political Responsibility and Personal Loss

This New York Times Critic's Pick tells the story of the people who followed cult leader Jim Jones

to the remote jungles of Guyana, South America, in a misbegotten quest to build an ideal society.

The 1960s ushered in intense social and cultural tumult; it was the Age of Aquarius,…

Outcast Films

'The Ties That Bind' is a powerful meditation on political responsibility and personal loss as seen through the story of the filmmaker's mother,

who grew up in Nazi Germany. Using rare archival footage, extensive interviews and critical commentary,

Friedrich constructs a fearless dialogue between past and present, between

Enemies of the People - Investigating the Cambodian Killing Fields

Old Street Films

In Enemies of the People the men and women who perpetrated the massacres -

from the foot-soldiers who slit throats to the party's ideological leader, Nuon Chea aka Brother Number Two -

break a 30-year silence to give testimony never before heard or seen. Unprecedented access from top to bottom…

King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery To Memphis

Kino Lorber

Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, KING: A FILMED DOCUMENTARY is a monumental documentary that follows

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activist to world-renowned leader

of the Civil Rights movement. Rare footage of King's speeches, protests, and arrests are interspersed…

King: Legacy Of A Dream

Kino Lorber

Legacy of a Dream is a 24 minute film that uses selected footage from the 180 minute Academy Award nominated documentary "King:

A Filmed Record; Montgomery to Memphis" to present a shorter account of

Dr. King's non-violent campaign for civil rights and social justice. It uses only original newsreel and…

Beyond Elections - Redefining Democracy In The Americas

The Ultimate Wish: Ending the Nuclear Age

In 1989, the Brazilian Worker's Party altered the concept of local government when they installed participatory

budgeting in Porto Alegre, allowing residents to participate directly in the allocation of city funds.

Ten years later, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was swept into power with the promise of granting direct participation to…

Concerning Violence - Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense

Moving, unforgettable living witnesses who survived two of the world's most momentous radiation crises:

Nagasaki in 1945 and Fukushima in 2011. They are interlaced with nuclear experts and archival footage, some shocking,

illuminating the largely unrecognized connection between nuclear weapons and nuclear power, and the growing global movements to abolish…

Kino Lorber

From the director of The Black Power Mixtape comes a bold and fresh visual narrative on Africa,

based on newly discovered archive material covering the struggle for liberation from colonial rule in the late '60s and '70s,

accompanied by text from Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth". Director Goran…

Hearts and Hands

The film chronicles the lives of ordinary women as well as individuals such as Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Keckley, Frances Willard and Abigail

Scott Duniway through the great 19th century events: industrialization, abolition, the Civil War, westward movement, temperance and suffrage.

For nineteenth century women, quilts were the podium, the pulpit…

Freedom Bound

Freedom Bound tells the story of the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee's voter registration campaign in Mississippi in 1963.

Amzie Moore, an NAACP leader in Cleveland, Mississippi, led Richards through the Mississippi delta voter registration campaign,

setting up interviews with share croppers, student activists, students and others in the struggle

Pete McCloskey

Okinawa: The Afterburn - A Comprehensive Look at the Battle of Okinawa

Pete McCloskey: Leading from the Front tells the colourful story of former Republican Congressman Pete McCloskey, a true political "maverick",

who was both a Marine war hero in Korea and a leading peace advocate during Vietnam.

While representing California's 11th District from 1967 to 1983 (now Silicon Valley), McCloskey became…

The Fall of Occupy LA

Tony McGrath

This is the story of the final weeks of the Occupy LA camp in 2011, told from the inside.

The division, the mistrust and the eventual fall of the camp itself.

What ended in LA, began in New York. On September 17, 2011 Occupy Wall Street took over Zuccotti Park…

The Fall of Occupy LA

Tony McGrath

This is the story of the final weeks of the Occupy LA camp in 2011, told from the inside.

The division, the mistrust and the eventual fall of the camp itself.

What ended in LA, began in New York. On September 17, 2011 Occupy Wall Street took over Zuccotti Park…

Evita

Heritage Film Project

Long after Evita was embalmed and secretly buried under a fictitious name in Milan,

the former First Lady of Argentina once again was catapulted to fame after Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical.

A few years later, Alan Parker's movie adaptation of the same would contribute the necessary ingredients to transform…

Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up? - An In-Depth Look at the Complex History Between the U.S. & Cuba

Released in Japan on the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa, OKINAWA: THE AFTERBURN is the first documentary to provide a comprehensive look

at the battle and the ensuing 70-year occupation of Okinawa by the United States military. On April 1, 1945, American troops landed on Okinawa, beginning a…

MulticomTV

Award-winning director Saul Landau embarks on an in-depth exploration of Miami-Havana politics through the story of the Cuban 5 -- a group of spies sent by the Castro government to infiltrate right-wing terrorist organizations in Miami. WILL THE REAL TERRORIST PLEASE STAND UP? chronicles half a century of hostile US-Cuba…

Counterpoint: The U-2 Story

Erebus: Operation Overdue - Uncovering the Truth Behind a Mysterious Plane Crash

Story of two spies on different sides of the Iron Curtain. The story behind the U-2 incident, which perpetuated the Cold War.

The 1960 U-2 incident, told through the story of spies on different sides of the Iron Curtain, one of whom is the CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers. In…

Pittsburgh Police Short Films

On November 28, 1979, a jet carrying 257 passengers crashed into Mount Erebus, Antarctica. Within hours, 11 police officers were called into duty traveling

to the most inhospitable place on earth to deal with one of the world's worst aircraft disasters. The heroes were pushed to their limits. As they…

Switzerland’s Dark Past - Exiled Youth in Switzerland

Featuring John Marshall's hallmark intimate camerawork, these shorts offer a unique perspective on both sides of law enforcement,

and on some of the social issues facing American cities during the late 1960s.

This 2007 re-mastered/re-authored compilation contains additional information about the series.

With My Heart in Yambo - A Personal Look at Ecuador's Recent History

For several decades up until the 1980s, thousands of young Swiss people were thrown into jail without trial,

sent to live with foster families or forced into children's homes, or even sterilized.

Their crime? Behavior that was judged to be threatening by a society obsessed with order and conformity. This…

Home Movies - Short Films by Broderick Fox

In 1988, when director Maria Fernanda Restrepo was only 10 years old, her life changed in the cruelest of ways: her two brothers--then 14 and 17--

vanished without a trace.

Only later did the family learn that the boys had been illegally detained, tortured, and murdered by the Ecuadorean police. Now,…

Broderick Fox

3 movies by Broderick Fox

A Short Film About Guns - The Global Illegal Arms Trade

Cyprian Films, New York

This documentary examines the illegal arms trade and how it functions across the globe. Featuring four experts on arms trafficking

who recount their first hand experiences with the black market in areas of conflict and how the illegal flow of weapons facilitates loss of life and devastation. This short film…

The Socialist Dream - President Lázaro Cárdenas and the Socialist Ideals his inspired in Mexico

In the Year of the Pig - Origins of the Vietnam War

In the convulsive Mexican post-revolutionary times of a complex and divided country, the ideas of Lazaro Cardenas paved the way towards social transformation.

Radical, practical and courageous, Cardenas and his socialist dream molded the future of Mexico.

Films We Like

From French colonialism and rickshaws to the Vietnamese victory at Dien Bien Phu. And then, the origins and nature of the

U.S. commitment from the end of WWII through the offensive of 1968.

History, death, battle, ideas as only film can do it, a conspicuous example.

China's Century of Humiliation

Deep Waters Films

China's century of Humiliation explores the fundamental differences between the Western and Chinese culture from early beginnings.

The film debates how Christianity and Confucianism were translated in political thought and social systems.

Next, the film investigates why the industrial revolution did not take place in China, despite its many early…

Indonesia - Unity in Diversity

Part of the Series: Asian Insight

Nationalism, with its sense of unity, is something third world nations and those that have lived under colonialism don't take for granted.

For many it is still an ambition. Made in 1976, this film examines the basic philosophies of President Soekarno and the nationalistic principals that no one had as…

Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way

Conversations with Gorbachev

Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way is a feature-length documentary about the life and legacy of the trailblazing woman who made history in

1984 as the first female Vice Presidential nominee on a major party ticket in the United States.

The film profiles Ferraro's life from an impoverished childhood, the struggles…

On the Road Productions International

Rosemarie Reed's 1994 documentary Conversations with Gorbachev sheds light on world events from the first-hand perspective of

former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, as interviewed by Professor of Russian and Soviet Studies

at NYU and Princeton, Stephen F. Cohen. It includes Gorbachev's insights on reintegration in the post-Soviet space and his…

Russia Betrayed?:Voices of the Opposition

On the Road Productions International

Filmed during the last few months prior to the 1996 Russian presidential election, when four opposition candidates to

Boris Yeltsin were running for president of Russia. Most Americans were unaware of these opposition leaders. Russian

scholar Stephen F. Cohen interviews the oppositionists: Aleksandr Lebed, Gennady Zyuganov, Grigory Yavlinsky and Aleksandr…

To Begin the World Over Again - The Life of Thomas Paine

The Life of Thomas Paine Productions, Inc.

Thomas Paine ignited revolutions and lived at the epicenter of world events but died largely ignored and disdained.

What made up his roller coaster of a life? This is an enlightening way to see the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Age of Reason through the eyes of the…

The City of Photographers (La ciudad de los fotógrafos) - Oppressed Chile Captured in Photographs

LATINBEAT

During the period of Pinochet's dictatorship (1973-1990), a group of photographers portrayed the harsh conditions Chilean society.

In the streets, along the protests marches, these photographers developed and created a metaphoric political language.

To take pictures was an expression of freedom and an attempt to survive. In addition to collecting

Soft Vengeance - Albie Sachs and the New South Africa

Abby Ginzberg

Winner of a Peabody Award, SOFT VENGEANCE is a film about Albie Sachs, a lawyer, writer, art lover and freedom fighter

set against the dramatic events leading to the overthrow of the apartheid regime in South Africa.

As a young lawyer, Albie defended those committed to ending apartheid. For his…

WAR / PEACE - Lessons in Activism from the Weather Underground

This Is What Democracy Looks Like

A documentary re-introducing the radical student activists from the late 60s, ex-leaders of

The Weather Underground movement Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

For decades the government and press have tried their best to silence them. WAR / PEACE serves as an historical reminder of what happened the last time a…

Habeas Corpus - Protecting the Persecuted After the 1973 Chilean Military Coup

This Is What Democracy Looks Like, a co-production of the IMC and Big Noise Films,

weaves the footage of over 100 videographers into a gripping document

of what really happened on Seattle's streets. The film cuts through the confusion and tear gas to paint an intimate, passionate portrait of a…

LATINBEAT

Following the 1973 military coup in Santiago de Chile, a group of priests and laypeople working in the Vicariate of Solidarity

began the dangerous task of trying to protect the persecuted and locate those who had been detained.

Having realized that there was a concerted policy to eliminate dissidents, and…

Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins

Children of Internment - German, Japanese & Italian Internment During WWII

CIA torture, the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and other examples of U.S. military abuse, have a history.

A key part of it is revealed in Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins.

Through his extraordinary life and daring actions we learn about Fr. Roy Bourgeois and his struggle to find…

Imminent Threat - The War on Terror’s Impact on Civil Liberties

Uncovering theforgotten stories of German, Japanese, and Italian Americans who were forced into internment camps in America during World War II.

It wasn't just Japanese Americans who were interned during this wartime --

nearly 11,000 German Americans perceived as enemy 'aliens' were also interned. Over tens of thousands of…

The Revolutionary - An American in Mao’s Cultural Revolution

Academy Award nominee James Cromwell presents a documentary on the War on Terror's impact on civil liberties.

For the past 15 years, the phrase 'War on Terror' has been used to justify everything from mass surveillance and

spying to the use of drones to kill suspected terrorists without evidence or…

Stourwater Pictures

Sidney Rittenberg arrived in China as a GI Chinese language expert at the end of World War II.

Discharged there, he joined the Chinese Communist Party, and was an active participant in the Chinese communist revolution and its aftermath.

An intimate of the Party's leadership, including Mao Zedong and Zhou…

The Soviet Story

Perry Street Advisors

This is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.

Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945.

Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe's most murderous regime…

North Korea - The Life of a North Korean Textile Worker

Fidelandia - Behind the Curtain of Cuba's Revolution

A very rare chance to witness life in the world's most reclusive nation.

In this verite documentary the family of Hong Sun Hui, a female worker in a textile factory,

takes us through an ordinary day in the country of the Beloved Leader Kim Jong Il. This film provides a…

Oscar Arias: Without A Shot Fired - Trying to Stop the Proliferation of Weapons

When Cuba's former dictator, Fulgencio Batista, was overthrown from power by Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries in the late 1950's,

the people of Cuba were promised a better country.

They were promised the opportunity to rise to a higher standard of living, but according to many struggling to survive within…

PeaceJam Foundation

This is the story of a tiny country that made a decision to do something that no other country had ever done --

it decided to abolish its army and declare peace to the world. And this is the story of a young boy who grew up in that country,…

Life of Lenin

O Prólogo - 1960's Brazillian Political Cinema

A Russian biography of the Communist leader in Russia's turbulent history.

Brazil, 1961. The unexpected resign of conservative president Janio Quadros brings a man linked to the left party to occupy his place.

A group of entrepreneurs and military create an Institute to warn the population about the dangers of Communism in Brazil.

To make the message spread in such a…

At Home in Utopia

Che: Rise & Fall - The Life of Revolutionary Che Guevara

A home of one's own: that's the American dream.

But what happens when the dreamers are immigrants, factory workers, and Communists?

In the mid-1920s, thousands of Jewish immigrant garment workers managed to catapult themselves

out of urban slums and ghettos by pooling their resources and building four cooperatively owned and…

Lifesize Entertainment

From the cradle to the grave, from the early summers in Argentina to the jungles of the

Congo and Bolivia, CHE: RISE & FALL reveals a very human and still irreplaceable giant of history.

This extraordinary documentary was shot entirely in Cuba while the legend's remains were being airlifted to…

The Singing Revolution - How Music Toppled an Empire

Sky Films

Most people don't think about singing when thinking about revolutions.

But in Estonia song was the weapon of choice when Estonians sought to free themselves from decades of Soviet occupation.

Few people know the crucial role one of the world's smallest nations played in bringing about the downfall of the…

A Month in the Life of Ephtim D.

Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist

This documentary takes a rare and intimate look at the life of a 73-year-old pensioner currently living in Bulgaria following the collapse of the former Soviet Union.

We follow Ephtim D. from the meager dinner table where he and his wife dine on some bread with a little margarine and…

One Step Productions

This one-hour film, narrated by Actor BURT LANCASTER, explores the lingering effects of The Hollywood Blacklist,

which occurred in the late forties and early fifties as part of the Anti-Communist witch-hunts that terrorized the nation.

This film is seen through the eyes of the wives and children of the now…

When the Mountains Tremble - War and Revolution in Guatemala

A classic documentary on war and social revolution in Guatemala, which vigorously and persuasively describes

the struggle of the largely indigenous peasantry against a legacy of state and foreign oppression.

Centered on the experiences of Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchu, a Maya K'iche indigenous leader, the film interweaves interviews, re-enactments,…

The Dixie Mission

What happened to the Foreign Service officers who appear in MISSION TO YENAN,

and who reported favourably on co-operation with the Chinese Communists in the war against Japan, and how they were blacklisted.

Mission to Yenan, 1944

Red Gringo - Dean Reed, the "Red Elvis" of Latin America

Story of the wartime mission to the Chinese Communists in their headquarters, made in 1944 by

OSS, but suppressed and never shown. Shot by OSS operatives behind enemy lines in wartime China,

this story of the visit to Chinese Communist headquarters was edited by John Ford, but deemed too politically…

Infamous Victory - Ben Chifley's Battle for Coal

Reminiscent of Searching for Sugarman, RED GRINGO follows Dean Reed,

a North American singer who became a pop idol during the '50s and '60s in Chile and the Americas.

There, the surprising political transformation he undergoes after learning of the brutality and repression of U.S.-supported regimes in South America earns

This is a story of coal, communism, and the Australian prime minister who went to war against his own during the national miners' strike of 1949.

Using rare archival footage and re-creations based on meticulous research, the dramatised documentary takes viewers into the corridors of power to show how Labor…

Rockin' the Wall

Visit to the Soviet Union

Rockin' the Wall is both an engaging history lesson about the Berlin Wall and

life behind the Iron Curtain, and an entertaining exploration of the power of rock music as

a force for social change and liberation. When the Berlin Wall went up in 1960, it became the worldwide symbol…

Return to Cuba - Life in Cuba After Castro

Includes two films. Women of Russia is about the Soviet Union in 1961 focusing on the work, housing, education, child care and

medical facilities available to women in a socialist society.

Far From Moscow shows women and children in Soviet Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and Irkutsk, Siberia, at

Resilience - Life stories of Russian Centenarians

After 18 years living in Italy, Barbara Ramos returns to live in Cuba, her homeland.

In the town of Santa Clara and through the projects of family and friends, she discovers what has changed,

what hasn't, and what will likely never change in her country. Shot over a period of…

Stage Russia

In 1917 Russia was wracked by revolution, famine, war, and unrest. And yet, all that year children were born.

This is a film about some of those children, 100 years later. RESILIENCE captures their unbelievable life stories.

Behind The Wall

The Surveillance State - Big Data, Freedom, and You

Inspired by the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 2009, "Behind the Wall"

tells the stories of ordinary people living on both sides of the Wall and

what life was like for them before, during and after the Wall fell. All politics being local,…

The Great Courses

A man shoots down a drone that is flying over his private property.

A retail store uses predictive data analytics to send pregnancy-related advertising to a teenager who has not told her parents about her condition.

A police officer places a GPS device on a suspected criminal's car to follow…

George Kennan: A Critical Voice - A Diplomatic Historian Speaks on Opposing US Involvement in Developing Nuclear Arms

Germany’s Cold War Cultures 1949-1989 - An Exhibition of 20th Century German Art

Drawing on a political career that began in the years leading up to WWII and spanned four decades after, the esteemed

George Kennan speaks with earnest articulation about the mounting tensions of the Cold War. Kennan's impressive credentials -

he was a Pulitzer Prize winning diplomatic historian and former Ambassador…

During the Cold War (1949-89) in both Germanys, the creation of art, its reception, and its theorization were closely linked to their respective political systems:

the Western liberal democracy of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the Eastern communist dictatorship of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In

The Red Button

1989—The Fall of the Berlin Wall

The Red Button is a documentary film that tells the dramatic story of Stanislav Petrov, the Russian officer who, in 1983,

saved the world from atomic war. During the early '80s, the Russian leader was Jurij Andropov,

the most right-wing Soviet leader since Stalin. A known hardliner, Andropov was very…

Episode 23 of Turning Points in Modern History Series

How did a bureaucratic blunder by a Politburo member lead to the fall of the Berlin Wall?

Find out as you examine the surprisingly peaceful collapse of the Soviet Union and Communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe.

America's Lost H-Bomb - How the US Air Force Lost a Nuclear Bomb

Longtail Distribution Network

During a military training mishap in 1958, a Mark 15, Mod Zero nuclear weapon was lost a few miles from the shores of Tybee Island, Georgia.

The bomb was twelve feet long and weighing 7,600 pounds. It's a big bomb, but it was never found. After studying the flight path…

The Queen of Condoms - Sex Education in Cuba

Dschoint Ventschr

A German student falls in love with a Cuban captain and follows him to the Caribbean.

Knowing little about sex she becomes the official sex educator of Castro's revolution.

A film about potent female agitators, staunch machos and love.

Capitalist Drive

Banjo Romantika - American Bluegrass Music & The Czech Imagination

A very personal account of one family and its links across two continents and three generations,

despite political divides. In CAPITALIST DRIVE award-winning filmmaker Barbara Chobocky turns

the camera on her own extended family to discover how ordinary people cope with social and personal upheaval. For 40 years, the conflict…

Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up? - An In-Depth Look at the Complex History Between the U.S. & Cuba

No other place in the world has a romance with American bluegrass like the Czech Republic. Banjo Romantika introduces

the musicians who play this unique bluegrass hybrid. Czechs first heard bluegrass during

World War II when the Armed Forces Network broadcast American music for soldiers. The music represented freedom to…

MulticomTV

Award-winning director Saul Landau embarks on an in-depth exploration of Miami-Havana politics through the story of the Cuban 5 --

a group of spies sent by the Castro government to infiltrate right-wing terrorist organizations in Miami.

WILL THE REAL TERRORIST PLEASE STAND UP? chronicles half a century of hostile US-Cuba…

Counterpoint: The U-2 Story

Erebus: Operation Overdue - Uncovering the Truth Behind a Mysterious Plane Crash

Story of two spies on different sides of the Iron Curtain. The story behind the U-2 incident, which perpetuated the Cold War.

The 1960 U-2 incident, told through the story of spies on different sides of the Iron Curtain, one of whom is the CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers. In…

Pittsburgh Police Short Films

On November 28, 1979, a jet carrying 257 passengers crashed into Mount Erebus, Antarctica.

Within hours, 11 police officers were called into duty traveling to the most inhospitable place on earth to deal

with one of the world's worst aircraft disasters. The heroes were pushed to their limits. As they…

Switzerland’s Dark Past - Exiled Youth in Switzerland

Featuring John Marshall's hallmark intimate camerawork, these shorts offer a unique perspective on both sides of law enforcement,

and on some of the social issues facing American cities during the late 1960s.

This 2007 re-mastered/re-authored compilation contains additional information about the series.

After The Fair - The Legacy of the 1964 World's Fair

For several decades up until the 1980s, thousands of young Swiss people were thrown into jail without trial,

sent to live with foster families or forced into children's homes, or even sterilized.

Their crime? Behavior that was judged to be threatening by a society obsessed with order and conformity. This…

R Cubed Networks

A look at the legacy of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair and how it still influences us today. In this documentary,

we connect the dots between technology seen at the fair,

like Bell Telephone's Picture Phone with Skype and other video chat services widely used today. We al

Operation Babylift

In April 1975, in the closing days of the Vietnam War, more than 3000 babies were airlifted from Saigon orphanages and

delivered into the arms of waiting couples in the US, Canada, Britain, Europe and Australia.

It was the largest act of adoption in history. Although many Westerners saw Operation…

Child of the Forest

Heritage Film Project

Yona Bromberg recalls the German invasion of her hometown of Rokitna, in Poland as she was herded, along with the rest of her family, to the village market.

"My family and all other Jews in Rokitna", she explains. "Once on the village market the SS surrounded the building with uniformed…

Road to Tokyo

East Timor: Birth of a Nation

By late 1944, the worst of World War Two appears to be over. Germany is awaiting defeat after

D-Day and Japan has been repulsed from Australia's doorstep.

But the conflict in the Pacific is about to hot up and it will be a long road to Tokyo for the Allies.…

In 1975, after 460 years of Portuguese rule, Fretilin, the revolutionary front for an independent

East Timor, declared independence for the small nation. Ten days later Indonesia invaded. Fretilin, and the resistance army Falintil,

fought the Indonesian military for the next 24 years. A third of the population - over…

The Forgotten Force

Brazil - An Inconvenient History

After the atomic obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,

over 36,000 Australian men and women, part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF), marched onto Japanese soil. They were assigned the toughest and most dangerous area of Japan: Hiroshima Prefecture, which included the atom-bombed city. The Forgotten Force tells for the…

Seventh Art Productions

At first glance Brazil appears to be an alluring playground of exciting carnivals, sultry samba, divine football and a vibrantly diverse people.

But behind this dazzling facade lies a disturbing story of historys largest-ever slave population.

Astonishingly Brazil, a Portuguese colony, received ten-times more African slaves than the numbers transported…

From Babylonia To Beverly Hills

Brownsville Black and White

In 1979, the Islamic Revolution in Iran brought a twenty-five-hundred-year-old history to a close for the Jews who left their homeland for America.

Uncertain about their safety and fearing religious persecution in Khomeini's Islamic Theocracy

, an estimated 80,000 of Iran's 100,000 Jews fled the country. This documentary tells the story…

This poignant and powerful documentary explores the complex history of interracial cooperation, urban change,

and social conflict in Brownsville, a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York,

from the 1930s to the 2000s. A case study of the tragedy of urban American race relations, the film recounts the transformation of Brownsville from…

Phans of Jersey City

A true gem of 1970s American cinema verite filmmaking re-released!

The Phans of Jersey City fills a gap in our cinematic history of Vietnam by documenting a South Vietnamese family recently

relocated to the United States. Evoking the realist style and domestic drama of An American Family, the filmmakers lived…

Colonists for a Day

Passion and Power - The Technology of Orgasm

For seventy years (1906-1975), the eastern half of the island, known as Papua New Guinea, was a protectorate of the Australian Government.

It was to be Australia's first and only attempt at colonisation.

The prime objective of the administration was to impose "pax Australiana" - a western economic structure and…

Time & Judgement

ArtMattan Films

Time and Judgement is an overview of the African Liberation Movement that spans a period of 400 hundred years.

The film narrates the tribulations and successes of people of African descent in and out of Africa focusing on the last century.

Through extensive footage of the movement in the Caribbean,…

Wendy Slick & Emiko Omori

This is the story of one simple invention, the vibrator, and its relationship to one complex human behavior, the female orgasm.

The history of the vibrator and its medical use had virtually vanished until historian, Rachel Maines, researching needlework patterns in early 20th century women's magazines, ran across ads for…

California's Lost Tribes

Jed Riffe Films

The 1987 Supreme Court decision to open up Indian gaming nationwide had a dramatic economic impact on the lives of California's Indian tribes much like

the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island had on their cultural identities. In a few short years, California Indians went from being the poorest people in…

Broken Journey, Mending Dreams

The moving story of a Vietnamese family in search of itself after the devastation caused by the Vietnam War.

After 18 years in Australia, Hanh Tran is making his first journey home to Vietnam.

It's a dream that has finally come true. Amidst the reunion of tears and laughter, an…

Kiribati? Here We Are

On 12 July 1979 the Gilbert Islands in the central Pacific became independent from British rule.

The country then became known as Kiribati.

This film shows the lifestyle of the people of these 33 islands, their history and culture, the natural resources and the effects of colonialism, World War Two,…

Independence for Fiji

After 96 years under British rule, in 1970 Fijian independence was restored. In the centre of celebratory events was HRH the Prince of Wales.

This film provides a record of the official ceremony on 10 October that saw the handover of the constitutional instruments. It includes the reading of a…

Flowers and the Wide Sea

Flowers and the Wide Sea is the story of one of Australia's oldest immigrant communities -

the Chinese. Chinese Australians tell of their ancestors and of themselves.

Archival film and photographs rarely seen before show life as it is and was in China, Hong Kong and Australia over a period…

Kokoda

From the corridors of power to the blood-stained battlefields of the Papua New Guinea highlands,

Kokoda tells the story of the brutal World War II military campaign between

Australia and Japan that changed the course of Australian history. Fought without mercy by foes with everything to lose, the ferocious battle…

Fifty Years Of Silence

Kokoda -The Counterattack

Between 1929 and 1945 the Japanese Government, on advice from its military, forcibly removed thousands of

young women and girls from their homes to provide sexual services as "comfort women"

to the Japanese Army. 50 YEARS OF SILENCE is Jan Ruff-O-Herne's story. It spans five generations from a colonial life…

Part of the Series: Kokoda

From the corridors of power to the blood-stained battlefields of the Papua New Guinea highlands, Kokoda tells the story of

the brutal World War II military campaign between Australia and Japan that

changed the course of Australian history. While most Australians have heard of the Kokoda Track - the scene…

Kokoda - The Invasion

Part of the Series: Kokoda

From the corridors of power to the blood-stained battlefields of the Papua New Guinea highlands,
Kokoda tells the story of the brutal World War II military campaign between Australia and Japan that changed the course of Australian history.

While most Australians have heard of the Kokoda Track - the scene…

Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II

Daedalus Productions

A feature documentary about African-American soldiers in World War II who fought in the segregated US Army and helped liberate Nazi concentration camps.

Academy Award Nomination, Feature Documentary, 1992 IDA Award CINE Golden Eagle CICAE Award Holocaust Humanitarian Award Links Award World Festival Premiere: Berlin Film Festival, 1992

Gallipoli: The Dawn Service

At dawn on 25 April 1999, 5,000 young Australian backpackers gathered with the Governor General of Australia, Sir William Deane, to commemorate ANZAC Day -

the last time the ceremony would be held at the tiny cemetery of Ari Burnu. The occasion was not unlike the many that had gone…

Thanks Girls and Goodbye

Liberty and Slavery - The Paradox of America's Founding Fathers

Thanks Girls and Goodbye is a documentary about a group of women who worked on farms during the Second World War in Australia - 'the land girls'.

Officially established by the government in 1942, the Australian Women's Land Army was set up to help fill the shortage of manpower on…

GoDigital

In 1776, America was a place of extreme paradox.

While our Founding Fathers were fighting for they own independence, many were also unashamed slave-owners. Indeed they were simultaneously promoting both liberty and slavery.

LIBERTY AND SLAVERY explores why the Founders and their slavery paradox is a lot more complicated than…

Your Parents Will Come Back - The Children of Political Exiles Travel Back to Uruguay

Lake of Betrayal - Seneca People Fighting to Protect Their Ancestral Lands

In 1983 a group of 154 children aged 3 and 17 years old traveled alone from Europe to Montevideo, Uruguay.

They were the children of political exiles from Uruguay, who were unable to come back to their own country so they sent their kids there to get to know their…

Vision Maker Media

Completed in 1965, the Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania was

originally proposed to help mitigate flooding in Pittsburgh--200 miles downriver,

but the 27-mile reservoir that formed behind it inundated vast tracts of the Seneca Indians' ancestral lands, forcing their removal in breach of the United States' oldest…

Secrets & Mysteries Of Christopher Columbus

A Long Way From Home - The Untold Story of Baseball's Desegregation

Was Christopher Columbus born in Genoa, Italy? An unlikely collection of experts from European royalty, DNA science, university scholars,

even Columbus's own living family so he definitely was not.

This ground breaking documentary follows a trail of proof to show the Christopher Columbus might have been much more than we…

Giant Interactive

A chronicle of the struggles and triumphs of the African-American and

Latino players who followed Jackie Robinson into white professional baseball.

Playing their minor-league ball in small, remote towns where racial segregation remained a fact of life well into the 1960s,

these were the men who, before they could live…

Working with Einstein - Albert Einstein as Remembered by his Students and Colleagues

Bare Hands and Wooden Limbs

Filmed at the Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies' commemoration of the centennial of his birth,

WORKING WITH EINSTEIN offers a rare glimpse into the great scientist's professional musings as recalled by his students and colleagues.

With participation from Banesh Hoffmann (Queens College), Peter Bergman (Syracuse University), Valentine Bargmann (Princeton University)…

Galloping Films

In 1975 Khmer Rouge forces kidnapped and tortured Chhem Sip, aged 14.

He managed to escape, until he reached a refugee camp in Thailand. Eventually he was adopted by an American minister,

became a U.S. citizen and turned to activism to help other Cambodian immigrants. Yet, he never felt at…

The Meeting Ground

Part of the Series: The Unfinished Nation Series

The American West--a place of convergence. Contrasting experiences of Native American tribes; Spanish-speaking communities

of Mexican Americans in New Mexico, Texas, and California; Chinese immigrants, and African Americans.

The impact of the Homestead Act and the experiences of native cultures.

The Progressive Era

Part of the Series: The Unfinished Nation Series

Causes and varieties of progressive reform efforts in late 19th and early 20th centuries. #

Settlement house movement.

Women seeking professional status and the vote.

Efforts to combat government corruption. African Americans and reform; the Temperance crusade and prohibition; immigration concerns.

Socialist efforts; the Industrial Workers of the World. Attempts to…

The Other America

Part of the Series: The Unfinished Nation Series

People on the margins: rural and inner city poverty. Civil Rights movement:

Brown v. Board of Education, expansion of the movement.

Eisenhower's Republicanism: the welfare state, the decline of McCarthyism, and the Cold War continued.

The Unfinished Nation Series

Intelecom Learning

A rich, comprehensive treatment of American history - from the settling of the American West to the Information Age.
Each of the lessons in the series combines interviews with leading scholars and

historians, archival footage, historical photographs, locations of historic interest, historic artifacts, and more. Discover the never-ending story which…

Apollo 13: The Untold Story

Robinson Crusader - Protecting Hawaii

This film tells the real story behind the unforgettable Ron Howard/Tom Hanks film.

In this film we feature the real astronauts, the actual footage and real events of Apollo 13.

Free at Last

Part of the Series: Have You Heard From Johannesburg Series

Have You Heard From Johannesburg is seven documentary stories chronicling the history of

the global anti-apartheid movement that took on South Africa's entrenched apartheid regime and

its international supporters who considered South Africa an ally in the Cold War.

Diving into the heart of the conflict, South Africans tell the…

Keith Robinson is in the fight of his life. It is a fight on two fronts.

The first is a battle to protect the privacy of his remote Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau,

known to locals as the Forbidden Island. Robinson's family purchased the island paradise for $10,000 in gold in…

Freedom Stories

Lawmen of the Old West: Good Vs. Evil

Freedom Stories is an exploration by filmmaker Steve Thomas of the achievements and struggles of former 'boat people'.

Now Australian citizens, they arrived seeking asylum from the Middle-East around 2001 -

a watershed year in Australian politics sparked by the Tampa affair and Prime Minister John Howard's declaration: "We will…

Part of the Series: Lawmen of the Old West

As outlaws refined their trade, so too did the lawmen.

Federal or state, town or county, public or private,

these men all fought to enforce law and order upon an unruly and violent land.

Return to Sandakan

A Royal Romance - Queen Elizabeth

During World War II, Sandakan prisoner of war camp in British North Borneo held nearly 2,500 Allied prisoners.

By war's end, only six would still be alive.

The story of the atrocities committed by the Japanese at Sandakan is one of the grimmest of the Pacific War. Shot in Australia,

EP Independent

In 1954 a young Queen Elizabeth captured the heart of a nation and since then, despite some rocky moments, the romance has endured for many Australians -

albeit with an uncertain future for the monarchy after Elizabeth. Whether they voted for monarchy or president at the 1999 republic referendum, it…

Much Ado About Something - The Shakespeare Authorship Debate

Kidnapped for Christ - A Look at Christian Reform Schools

This lively odyssey into the land of Shakespeare introduces us to a delightful gallery of eccentric scholars who dispute the authorship of the plays.

It is an expedition into what one author in the film calls "beautiful territory."

In this 2003 documentary, Australian film-maker Mike Rubbo explores the evidence that…

After Auschwitz - Profiling Six Extraordinary Holocaust Survivors and Their Lives After the War

Every year, thousands of American teenagers are kidnapped from their homes and shipped to Christian reform schools abroad on their parents' orders.

Many of these teenagers are gay or deemed 'troubled' and their parents hope these schools,

which operate outside of U.S. law, will transform them into 'healthy Christian adults'.…

The Other Side of Home

EPF Media, Inc.

This documentary tells the story of a Turkish woman who finds out her great grandmother was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide and struggles

to come to terms with her conflicted identity. Best Documentary Short Subject Shortlist for the Academy Awards.

Nominated for Best Documentary Film at the ARPA International…

Earthrise - The Story of the First Image of Earth Captured From Space

"You're free. Go home." Most Holocaust films end with these words, the very words that survivors heard at liberation.

But AFTER AUSCHWITZ is not a typical "Holocaust" film.

It begins with these words, inviting audiences to experience what happened next.

AFTER AUSCHWITZ is a "Post-Holocaust" documentary that follows six extraordinary…

Global Oneness Project

This documentary tells the story of the first image captured of the Earth from space in 1968.

Told solely by the Apollo 8 astronauts, the film recounts their

experiences and memories and explores the beauty, awe, and grandeur of the Earth against the blackness of space. This iconic image had…

Good Luck Soup - Growing Up Mixed Race in White Suburbia

RAMPED UP - The Pitfalls of the Americans with Disabilities Act

When we think of Asian America, Cleveland is not the first place that comes to mind for most people.

In GOOD LUCK SOUP, filmmaker Matthew Hashiguchi

shows us why this often overlooked part of the country is as important as others in understanding the Asian American story.

The journey for…

The Great European Disaster Movie - The Present and Future of the European Union

The Americans with Disabilities Act - signed into law in 1990 -

was referred to as the Emancipation Proclamation for Americans with disabilities.

But because the government mostly lacks the power to ensure the law is followed, people

with disabilities bear the primary burden of its enforcement through lawsuits. Defendants…

Springshot Productions

Combining drama and documentary, THE GREAT EUROPEAN DISASTER MOVIE examines current-day Europe and the challenges

that are mounting against the European Union's survival. Beset by growing nationalism and an increasing dissatisfaction

with its undemocratic political structure, will Europe descend into a apocalyptic future? Using interviews, archival footage, and drama, Annalisa…

Nat Bates for Mayor - Corporate Influence on Local Politics

There Once was an Island - Te Henua e Nnoho

Opening with footage of a 2012 fire at the Chevron oil refinery and a heated town hall where blue-collar employees clash with environmentalists, the film

sets the groundwork for the election that shifted the balance of power in the city.

Councilman Nat Bates makes a Faustian bargain with the

What if your community had to decide whether to leave their homeland forever and there was no help available?

This is the reality for the culturally unique Polynesian community of Takuu, a tiny low-lying atoll in

the South Western Pacific. As a terrifying tidal flood rips through their already damaged…

City of Borders

Have You Heard From Johannesburg Series - History of the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement

City of Borders provides an original view of the vibrant underground community at Jerusalem's only gay bar

where people of opposing nationalities and religions create an unexpected island

of peace in a land divided by war and hate. This powerful and provocative documentary intimately portrays the daily lives of five…

Clarity Films

Have You Heard From Johannesburg is seven documentary stories chronicling the history of

the global anti-apartheid movement that took on South Africa's entrenched apartheid regime and

its international supporters who considered South Africa an ally in the Cold War. Almost fifty years ago, South Africans began to realize that their…

Road to Resistance

Part of the Series: Have You Heard From Johannesburg Series

Have You Heard From Johannesburg is seven documentary stories chronicling the history of

the global anti-apartheid movement that took on South Africa's entrenched apartheid regime and

its international supporters who considered South Africa an ally in the Cold War. As the United Nations adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,…

Hell of a Job

Part of the Series: Have You Heard From Johannesburg Series

Have You Heard From Johannesburg is seven documentary stories chronicling the history of

the global anti-apartheid movement that took on South Africa's entrenched apartheid regime

and its international supporters who considered South Africa an ally in the Cold War. ANC Deputy President Oliver Tambo escapes into exile and embarks on…

The New Generation

Part of the Series: Have You Heard From Johannesburg Series

Have You Heard From Johannesburg is seven documentary stories chronicling the history of

the global anti-apartheid movement that took on South Africa's

entrenched apartheid regime and its international supporters who considered South Africa an ally in the Cold War. It is youth, both inside and outside, who next join the…

Fair Play

Part of the Series: Have You Heard From Johannesburg Series

Have You Heard From Johannesburg is seven documentary stories chronicling the history of

the global anti-apartheid movement that took on South Africa's entrenched apartheid regime

and its international supporters who considered South Africa an ally in the Cold War. Faced with governments reluctant to take meaningful action against the apartheid…

From Selma to Soweto

Part of the Series: Have You Heard From Johannesburg Series

Have You Heard From Johannesburg is seven documentary stories chronicling the history of the global anti-apartheid movement

that took on South Africa's entrenched apartheid regime and its international supporters who considered

South Africa an ally in the Cold War. Long one of South Africa's most important and powerful allies, the…

The Bottom Line

Part of the Series: Have You Heard From Johannesburg Series

Have You Heard From Johannesburg is seven documentary stories chronicling the history of the global anti-apartheid movement

that took on South Africa's entrenched apartheid regime and its international supporters who considered South Africa an ally in the Cold War.

This is the story of the first-ever international grassroots campaign to…

Dear President Obama - The Clean Energy Revolution is Now

Dear Governor Brown - Big Oil in California

Filmmakers and journalists have been working on the film for nearly three years, filming in more than twenty states and conducting more than 120 interviews.

Narrated by actor and activist Mark Ruffalo, the film is a direct appeal to President Obama as he shapes his environmental legacy, but it is…

Dear Governor Cuomo - Fracking in New York

When you think of California, what images pop first into mind? Ocean ... beaches ... mountains ... healthy living ... Hollywood ...

beautiful people.

All of which are true. But so is the fact that California is the third largest oil producing state in the nation, with a long history…

Spirit of Cape Verde - The First President of Cape Verde After Independence Visits New England

With the news that Governor Andrew Cuomo might lift the four-year moratorium against hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in

New York state any day a concert/protest was organized on his doorstep in the state capitol of Albany.

The event brought together scientists, musicians, activists and actors in a scripted night onstage inviting…

SPIA Media Productions

This documentary reportage chronicles the first state visit to the United States in 1983 by Aristides Pereira, Cape Verde's first president after independence.

Highlights include an overview of the Cape Verdean communities in the Fox Point section of Providence and Pawtucket, Rhode Island and President Pereira's visit to New Bedford,…

Shocking and Awful - A Grassroots Response to War and Occupation

Paper Tiger Television, Inc.

In response to the attempt to "shock and awe" Iraq into submission, Deep Dish TV put out

a call to artists, filmmakers and editors to create this powerful series. Each of the

12 programs contains segments produced by different artists and activists, collaged together by the program editors. The iconic…

Globalization at Gunpoint - The Economics of Occupation

Episode 7 of Shocking and Awful

The military occupation of Iraq has enabled the U.S. to enforce privatization of the Iraqi economy, in effect, selling off Iraq's assets to foreign investors.

A look at the challenges to privatization. Part seven of a twelve part series from Deep Dish TV on the war in Iraq.

Empire and Oil - Oil in the Middle East

Episode 9 of Shocking and Awful

Modern empires run on oil, and controlling this resource is key to the domination and destruction of potential rivals.

This program examines the history of the Middle East and the desire of the United States to control its petroleum resources,

through the Iraqi War and allegations of "weapons of Mass-Destruction"…

Channels of War - The Media is the Military

Episode 10 of Shocking and Awful

The mainstream television networks have fanned the flames of war, and have profited from doing so.

This program looks at how the U.S. corporate media has sanitized our field of vision. Part ten of a twelve part series from Deep Dish TV

A Conversation - Howard Zinn and Woody Harrelson on the Iraq War

Paper Tiger Television, Inc.

In October 2003, months after the United States launchaed its brutal, criminal war on the people of Iraq, historian Howard Zinn sat down

with actor Woodly Harrelson for a provocative, humorous, wide ranging conversation.

Filmed at Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN), the public access television station in Manhattan.

Big Men - Inside the African Oil Industry

Outcast Films

What happens when desperately poor people discover an incredibly valuable resource coveted by multinational corporations?

This highly-acclaimed, award-winning New York Times Critics' Pick follows a small group of American explorers at

Dallas-based oil company Kosmos Energy over a four-year period as it developed the first commercial oil field in Ghana's…

Quitte Le Pouvoir - Mobilizing Senegalese Youth to Vote

Aida Grovestins

The film follows 'Y'en a Marre' ('We're Fed Up'), a collective of rappers and journalists from Dakar's inner city,

that join forces to mobilize the Senegalese youth to revolt and register to vote Senegalese President Abdoulaye

Wade out of power in the 2012 elections. By using animations over the live…

Not Without Us - Grassroot Activists Demonstrate at the United Nations' Climate Talks

I Was Born in Mexico, But… - Growing Up Undocumented in America

This documentary follows seven grassroots activists from around the world to the 21st U.N. Climate Talks in Paris.

The effects of climate change on their lives reveal what is at stake if a strong agreement to limit carbon emissions is not reached. Yet, the landmark Paris Accords, signed by 192…

A poetic short featuring the voice of an undocumented young Latina woman who was brought to the U.S. as a child.

The film introduces viewers to a personal voice on the immigration debate: DACA, the Dream Act,

and other immigration reform, speaking about what it's like to grow up and…

War Don Don

In the heart of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, United Nations soldiers guard a heavily fortified building known as the "special court."

Inside, Issa Sesay awaits his trial. Prosecutors say Sesay is a war criminal, guilty of heinous crimes against humanity. His defenders say he is a reluctant fighter…

The Campaign

THE CAMPAIGN follows the people behind California's historic

"No on 8'' campaign to defend same-sex marriage through exclusive behind the scenes footage,

interwoven with the national history of same-sex relationship recognition since the 1950s.

The story focuses on an ensemble of five characters --

Alison, Holli, Richard, Anne and Claudia…

U.N. Fever

Holy Land - A Nonpartisan Observer's Year in the West Bank

U.N. Fever follows three teams of college students -

The City College of New York, Freie Universitat Berlin, and Pace University in Pleasantville NY --

as they prepare to compete in an international Model U.N. competition.

These passionate young people are among our future world leaders. They seek real-life solutions…

Lessons in Dissent - A New Generation of Hong Kong Democracy Activists

Essential viewing for Middle East studies and for campuses engaged in debate about the Israel-Paelstine conflict, the film zeroes in

on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, and the Israelis and Palestinians who oppose them.

Director/producer Peter Cohn comes to the story with an outsider's unaffiliated perspective, gaining intimate access…

Torne Films

Filmed over 18 months, Lessons in Dissent is a kaleidoscopic, visceral portrait of a new generation of

Hong Kong democracy activists. School boy JOSHUA WONG dedicates himself to stopping the introduction of National Education.

His campaign begins to snowball when an interview goes viral on YouTube, with the new school…

Bring It to the Table - Republicans & Democrats, Dialogue Not Diatribe

Talking Eyes Media

A fresh, provocative, even humorous study of political identity,

Bring It to The Table features Americans from all walks of life sharing their beliefs and

values about the hot-button topics of today.

In this time of increasing hyperpartisanship, insults, and gridlock, Bring It to The Table offers an antidote to…

Bridging the Divide - Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race

OUR L.A.

During this tumultuous election season, watch a film about an election which made a real difference. Broadcast on PBS in

2016, BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race tells the compelling story

about Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley-the first African American mayor elected in a major U.S.…

The Occupation of the American Mind - Israel's Public Relations War in the United States

The Immigration Paradox - Diverse Stories Reveal Root Causes of Mass Migration

Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of

the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world --

except the United States. The Occupation of the American Mind takes an eye-opening look at this critical…

The Immigration Paradox Movie

The Immigration Paradox takes a critical and in depth look at one of the most divisive issues in human global history-immigration.

After encountering an immigrant crossing the Arizona desert, Emmy Award Winner and Filmmaker Lourdes Lee Vasquez

set out to understand why people would risk their lives to come to…

Peace Commandos - Transforming Conflict in Congolese Society

Collective Eye Films

Peace Commandos is a documentary film featuring the work of Search for Common Ground (SFCG),

an innovative organization working to transform conflict in Congolese society through interactive street theater, and Mines Advisory Group (MAG),

a humanitarian mine action organization working to collect and destroy weapons stores in the country. The…

The Suffragists - Political Struggles for Women in Mexico

EPF Media, Inc.

The story of Eufrosina Cruz, an indigenous woman from the Zapotec community of Santa Maria Quiegolani in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Las Sufragistas details her political struggle, as well as Mexican women's long fight for political power,

beginning with the Revolutionary period. The film also considers challenges that women…

Dear President Obama - The Clean Energy Revolution is Now

Interpreting The Law: The Role Of Supreme Court

Filmmakers and journalists have been working on the film for nearly three years, filming in more than twenty states and conducting more than 120 interviews.

Narrated by actor and activist Mark Ruffalo, the film is a direct appeal to President Obama as he shapes his environmental legacy, but it is…

es analyzes the controversial cases that shaped America's laws and history thus far.

Dred Scott Decision

Part of the Series: Supreme Court Decisions That Changed The Nation Series

The requirement that judges restrain their personal feelings and prevent outside factors from influencing their judicial decisions can be traced back to English common law.

This practice is known as judicial restraint, and the abandonment of this essential principle is at the heart of a controversial case

Guidance Associates

The history of the Court and how it evolved to be the final arbiter and interpreter of the nation's laws.

Focuses on the Marshall and Warren Courts' decisions and Brown vs. Board of Ed.

A Closer Walk

Worldwide Documentaries

A Closer Walk is the first film to depict humankind's confrontation with the global AIDS epidemic.

The film's director and producer, Robert Bilheimer, is an Academy Award nominee for his film Cry of Reason

a profile of the South African anti-apartheid leader Beyers Naude. A Closer Walk was conceived with…

African Underground: Democracy in Dakar

Nomadic Wax

African Underground: Democracy in Dakar is a groundbreaking documentary film about

hip-hop youth and politics in Dakar Senegal. The film follows rappers, DJs, journalists, professors and

people on the street at the time before, during and after the controversial 2007 presidential election in Senegal and examines hip-hop's role on the…

To Get Rich Is Glorious

Nick Torrens Films

In this astonishingly candid documentary, wealthy Hong Kong entrepreneur VINCENT LE

takes us on an emotional journey during the former colony's historic reunification with

China. Vincent opens up his world of influence, his successful business strategies, his dilemmas and his fears. We then travel China with Vincent and his partner…

#ReGENERATION - Social Activism

A Burning Question - Propaganda & the Denial of Climate Change

Ryan Gosling narrates this engrossing film about social activism, the forces that galvanized the Occupy movement, and

how a new generation of young people is coming to terms with a rapidly changing world.

The film skillfully weaves commentary from some of the country's leading political and social analysts with personal…

American Autumn (Abridged Version) - The Occupy Movement

This fascinating and clarifying look at the debate surrounding global warming explores

the striking disconnect between the relatively clear-cut concerns of the world's most prominent scientists and

the maze of speculation, rhetorical posturing, and outright misinformation that attaches to this issue whenever it's taken up by politicians, PR specialists, and…

Ethos: A Time for Change

Cinema Libre Studio

Hosted by twice Oscar nominated actor and activist Woody Harrelson, ETHOS lifts the lid on a Pandora's Box of

systemic issues that guarantee failure in every aspect of our lives,

from the environment to our democracy and our own personal liberty. From conflicts of interest in politics to unregulated corporate…

In this gripping first-hand account of the Occupy Wall Street movement, filmmaker and

former high school teacher Dennis Trainor Jr. takes an inside look at how a New York-based protest against corporate greed

and economic inequality in the autumn of 2011 sparked a full-scale street revolution that continues to send…

Super Chief

Don't Fence Me In: Major Mary and The Karen Refugees from Burma

This documentary is about a campaign and election for a new tribal chairman of

the White Earth Ojibwe Reservation. By 1996, millions of dollars that had come through the new casino on

the White Earth Reservation seemed to stop at the tribal chairman's desk. The self-proclaimed "Super Chief", Darryl "Chip"…

Nelson Mandela - The Freedom Fighter

Since 1962, Burma has been ruled by a military junta. Life has deteriorated markedly for its citizens.
Despite its former prosperity and its rich resources, it was voted least developed nation by the UN in 1987,

and human rights atrocities continue to prevail. Forced from their homes by the government,…

Noel Field - The Fictitious Spy

Nelson Mandela is one of the most influential men in the world. Born into the Thembu royal family,

he committed his life to the advancement of black people in South Africa.

Mandela stood firmly as a public leader of the anti apartheid movement. In 1962, he was arrested and convicted…

Dschoint Ventschr

American Noel Field was a key player in the trials following the World War Two in Eastern Europe.

He was secretly imprisoned between 1949 and 1955, but remained in Hungary after his release.

What was the secret of Noel Field?

Seeing Red - Stories of American Communists

Motor Nasch - Women Remember the Soviet Union

An informed look at the individuals who made up the American Communist Party from the 1930s

through the '50s. Fighting for the causes of unionization, unemployment and Social Security benefits,

and the eight-hour day, they committed themselves to what they believed was the right way for America. Not just a…

Dschoint Ventschr

Six women from four generations look back on their lives in Moscow,

covering the period between birth of the Soviet Union and its dissolving.

Seeing Red - The Story of New Zealand Filmmaker Cecil Holmes

Cecil Holmes was a young talented New Zealander, born in Palmerston North,

who became caught up in New Zealand's own "red scare". Having seen service - he had had a "good war" -

Holmes returned to Wellington, his eyes opened about the world. A film enthusiast, he worked at the…

Inside the Khmer Rouge

Power Trip - Solving the Electricity Crisis in Tbilisi

Inside the Khmer Rouge takes an in-depth look at the history, domination, and current status of

the Khmer Rouge (a Communist regime) in Cambodia.

The film features revealing interviews with soldiers of both the modern Khmer Rouge and those who fight in opposition. A comprehensive timeline of the regime's five-year…

The Cold War - Part 1

Media Rich

Communists and capitalists united in World War II to defeat the Axis powers.

But following victory in 1945 the allies became adversaries.

The world's two great superpowers--the United States and Soviet Union-

-locked in a dramatic showdown over ideology, vision and freedom that would persist for five decades. Under the omnipresent…

The Cold War - Part 2

Media Rich

Communists and capitalists united in World War II to defeat the Axis powers.

But following victory in 1945 the allies became adversaries.

The world's two great superpowers--the United States and Soviet Union--

locked in a dramatic showdown over ideology, vision and freedom that would persist for five decades. Under the omnipresent…

Devlin Pix

AES Corp., the massive American "global power company," has purchased the privatized electricity distribution company

in Tbilisi, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.

AES manager Piers Lewis must now train the formerly communist populace that, in this new world, customers pay for their electricity. The Georgians meanwhile, from…

Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins