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Publisher
Broadbandaid Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A modern day "Grapes of Wrath" in which a family of undocumented immigrants from the jungle in Mexico journey to a dairy farm in the USA in search of a better life and a means to send money home to their struggling families. Along the way they encounter dangerous border crossing conditions and a run -in with immigration authorities. Jario wants to provide a better life for his family, but every family has a black sheep... will this stand in his way?...
62) Welcome Nowhere
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Narrated by multi-Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, WELCOME NOWHERE tells the true story of one community of Roma people (commonly known as Gypsies) living in Bulgaria. After being evicted from their homes, over 200 of them are forced to live in shantytowns without proper sanitation.. Despite years of promises from the government for housing, their living conditions only get worse while members of the community struggle to survive with what little...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When you think of busing in Boston, chances are it’s about a dark episode in the city’s history that sparks images of violence, intolerance, and racial tension. And while most of the historical spotlight has been on forced busing to desegregate the city’s schools and its legacy, there’s another Boston busing story that is lesser known.. This film highlights one of the longest running voluntary school desegregation programs in the country,...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When forced to work at city jobs for well below the prevailing wage and deprived of the chance to go to school, these individuals decide to fight back, demanding programs that will actually help them move off of welfare and into jobs. A Day's Work, A Day's Pay traces the personal and political evolution of its three main characters. Juan Galan successfully organizes WEP workers while battling the demons of his own poverty-stricken childhood. Jackie...
65) Shingal
Publisher
Cargo Film & Releasing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Driven from their ancestral lands by ISIS after a campaign of brutal genocide, the Yazidis, a persecuted religious minority in Iraq, attempt to ransom their kidnapped daughters from the terror group’s slave camps while dreaming one day of returning home.. Official Selection at Hot Docs Documentary Festival. Winner of Best Documentary at the Woodstock Film Festival.. "With its unique editing approach, allowing shots to linger and develop, the filmmakers...
66) Escuela
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
There are over 800,000 students enrolled in migrant education programs in the U.S. and, of those, only 45-50% ever finish high school. ESCUELA, the sequel to Hannah Weyer’s critically acclaimed documentary LA BODA, personalizes these glaring statistics through the honest portrait of a teenage Mexican-American farm worker, Liliana Luis. ESCUELA is a clear-eyed view into the lives of contemporary Mexican American migrants and their struggles to educate...
Publisher
Divided Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
While most people are aware of the basic contours of the Flint water story, AMERICA DIVIDED goes deeper. Correspondent Rosario Dawson investigates how a government could poison its own citizens, what hidden forces may have been at work, and how specific policies unique to Michigan, led not only to the crisis in Flint but also damaged other poor, largely African American communities around the state.
68) After the Rape
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 2002, Mukhtar Mai, a rural Pakistani woman from a remote part of the Punjab, was gang-raped by order of her tribal council as punishment for her younger brother’s alleged relationship with a woman from another clan. Instead of committing suicide or living in shame, Mukhtar spoke out, fighting for justice in the Pakistani courts—making world headlines. Further defying custom, she started two schools for girls in her village and a crisis center...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The struggle for Muslim women’s emancipation is often portrayed stereotypically as a showdown between Western and Islamic values, but Arab feminism has existed for more than a century. This groundbreaking documentary recounts Arab feminism’s largely unknown story, from its taboo-shattering birth in Egypt by feminist pioneers up through viral Internet campaigns by today’s tech-savvy young activists during the Arab Spring. Moving from Tunisia...
Publisher
Marriage Equality USA
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
" The Peoples Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world. Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California In 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create one of the most miraculous political victories in modern American history. Opponents attacked the issue of marriage equality as amoral and a direct threat to families. Allies...
Publisher
Wabi Sabi Productions
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It is estimated that over 50 percent of the victims of police brutality and police killings nationally have a disability that contributed to the incident. Disability is glazed over or not recorded in the official police reports. Nor is the fact adequately represented in the media and even in popular movement around this issue of police brutality in general. It informs us that for them, disability doesn’t matter. But clearly disability does matter,...
72) The Staging Post
Publisher
Light Sound Art Film
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A story of hope, courage and connection. Against the backdrop of the ongoing refugee crisis, this powerful, emotional and uplifting story proves that refugees are not just the problem, but can be a part of the solution as well.. The film follows Afghan Hazara refugees, Muzafar, Khadim and Tahira. Stranded in Indonesia after Australia 'stopped the boats' and facing many years in limbo, they build a community and start a school which inspires a refugee...
73) It's A Girl
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In India, China and many other parts of the world today, girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are missing in the world today because of this so-called “gendercide". The war against girls is rooted in centuries-old tradition and sustained by deeply ingrained cultural dynamics which, in combination with government policies, accelerate the elimination of girls.....
74) Mole Agent
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A private-eye sends an 83-year-old agent to spy on a nursing home suspected of neglect.
75) Battered
Publisher
Hope Runs High
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Lee Grant's acclaimed portrait of domestic violence in American Homes. A powerful if harrowing step inside life lived in constant fear of the people closest to you. Grant explores every angle, from time with the people who have escaped, succumbed to, or continue to live with domestic violence, as well as eye opening and heart breaking conversations with the abusers themselves.
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A compelling and controversial look at a problem: how should we deal with crime? Traveling the globe to look at the most fascinating examples of justice on the planet - from the harsh punishments of China to more merciful methods in Finland & Japan. At its root, the choice is always the same: to crush criminals or to bring them back into the community? To take revenge or to rehabilitate?
77) Invisible Hands
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This award-winning documentary exposes child labor and trafficking within the supply chains of the world’s biggest corporations, which produce some of our most loved items. Filmed across six countries, the documentary offers a harrowing account of children as young as five years old making the products we buy and consume every day. Chilling undercover footage shows children being sold like animals to the highest bidder and others being abused by...
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
NARRATIVES OF MODERN GENOCIDE challenges the audience to experience first-person accounts of survivors of genocide. Sichan Siv and Gilbert Tuhabonye share how they escaped the killing fields of Cambodia, and the massacre of school children in Burundi. Mixing haunting animation, and expert context the film confronts our notion that the holocaust was the last genocide.
79) Advocate
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Since the early 1970s, attorney Lea Tsemel has made a career out of defending Palestinians in Israeli courts: feminists and fundamentalists, non-violent demonstrators and armed militants. As far as most Israelis are concerned, she defends the indefensible. As far as Palestinians are concerned, she's more than an attorney, she’s an advocate. ADVOCATE follows Tsemel’s caseload in real-time, including the high-profile trial of a 13-year-old boy —...
80) The Search
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
THE SEARCH is a 24-minute film that explores Estela de Carlotto’s 37-year search for her long-lost grandchild after her daughter was kidnapped and murdered during the Argentinean 1976-1983 dictatorship.
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