Human Rights Movies

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first...

During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 with the Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code....

A documentary film depicting five intimate portraits of migrants who fled their country of origin to seek refuge in France and find a space of...

Three arrested and detained undocumented immigrants must navigate the system to fight impending deportation.

"letters to eleanore" is a poignant feature-length documentary that explores the intertwined journeys of two remarkable girls, Keith from Canto...

An astrological event changes the vibration of the sun, affecting the consciousness of all living things for better or for worse.

A documentary about the atrocities committed against the Hmong people by the Laos government. Shot by Hmong people with cameras provided to them in...

The challenges of the present, expectations for the future, and the dreams of those who experience the reality of public high school in Brazil....

Sahar a 17 year old student is determined to skip high school during the recess to attend the football stadium to watch the football match between...

Ompung Putra Boru, a sixties indigenous Batak woman from Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatra, retraces her life stories through photographs that...

Sara is a judge very committed to the cases she hears in her office. After meeting David, a young artist, on the beach, she must make decisions about...

A documentary that reveals the underbelly of the global aid and investment industry. It's a complex web of interests that span the earth from...

Vera and Gabriel, an elderly couple, navigate through past and present, telling their own life story. Their remembering, rendered in images from...

A film about one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, the moment when the radical spirit of the 1960s upstaged the greatest sporting event...

An artist's sculpture is burnt down, a protester is charged with a criminal case, and a democracy movement is violently attacked. In the United...

Those who do not know the Sahara think there is only sand in the desert. But in the desert there are children who play and draw and make movies, and...

The story of two youngster girls who became the victims of female genital mutilation.