A suspenseful look at the lengths people will go to gain freedom, BEYOND UTOPIA embeds with a courageous pastor as he works tirelessly to guide various individuals attempting to flee one of the most oppressive places on Earth: North Korea

Director: Madeline Gavin

Language: English, Korean (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 116 min.

Year of production: 2023

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Seyran Ateş: Sex, Revolution and Islam

In the '60s, hippies ignited a sexual revolution. In 2020, Seyran Ateş, a Turkish-German feminist imam, faces fatwas and bullets for sparking a similar change in Islam. Her global journey fights extremism, fostering peace and love within the faith. Join her revolution!

Director: Nefise Özkal Lorentzen

Language: Chinese, English, German, Norwegian, Turkish (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 55 min.

Year of production: 2021

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The Grab

An investigative journalist uncovers the money, influence, and alarming rationale behind covert efforts to control the most vital resource on the planet, in the latest exposé from filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite (Blackfish)

Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite

Language: English, Lela (C'lela), Russian, Ukrainian (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 104 min.

Year of production: 2022

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America to Me

Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Steve James examines racial, economic and class issues in contemporary American education in the multipart unscripted documentary series. Witness it through their eyes.

Director: Steve James

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 10x60 min.

Year of production: 2018

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DOLORES

Dolores Huerta fought tirelessly alongside Chavez for racial and labor justice and became one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century. The fight continues...

Director: Peter Bratt

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 96 min.

Year of production: 2017

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Picture a Scientist

PICTURE A SCIENTIST is a documentary on women scientists overcoming bias, revolutionizing science, on a journey to meet diverse scientific luminaries

Director: Ian Cheney | Sharon Shattuck

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 97/56 min.

Year of production: 2020

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How to Survive a Plague

The story of how activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.

Director: David France

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 110/85 min.

Year of production: 2012

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Half the Sky

Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Director: Maro Chermayeff

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 240 min.

Year of production: 2012

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Kiss the Ground

Narrated and featuring Woody Harrelson, "Kiss the Ground" is an inspiring and groundbreaking film that reveals the first viable solution to our climate crisis

Director: Josh Tickell | Rebecca Tickell

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 84 / 47 min.

Year of production: 2020

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Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops

A rare 360 degree portrait, Ernie and Joe: Crisis Cops follows two police officers with the San Antonio Texas Police Department who are diverting people away from jail and into mental health treatment, one emergency call at a time

Director: Jenifer McShane

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 96/25 min.

Year of production: 2019

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Pray the Devil Back to Hell

The dramatic success story of the women's peace movement of Liberia

Director: Abigail Disney | Gini Reticker

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 72 min.

Year of production: 2008

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An Inconvenient Sequel

A decade after AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH brought the climate crisis into the heart of popular culture, comes Al Gore's riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution.

Director: Bonni Cohen | Jon Shenk

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 100 min.

Year of production: 2017

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John Lewis: Good Trouble

A fascinating look into the life and times of U.S representative and activist, John Lewis. Using interviews and rare archival footage the film delivers an intimate account of Lewis's legacy and contribution to the Civil Rights Movement

Director: Dawn Porter

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 98 min.

Year of production: 2020

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Mission: JOY

Deeply moving and laugh-out-loud funny, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu share science-backed wisdom of how to live with joy in troubled times in Mission: JOY.

Director: Louie Psihoyos | Peggy Callahan

Language: Italian (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 88 min.

Year of production: 2021

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The Seeds of Vandana Shiva

When you control seed you control life on earth

Director: Camilla Becket | James Becket

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 82 min.

Year of production: 2021

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Roll Red Roll

Roll Red Roll is a true-crime thriller that goes behind the headlines to uncover the deep-seated and social media-fueled "boys will be boys" culture at the root of high school sexual assault in America.

Director: Nancy Schwartzman

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 81 min.

Year of production: 2018

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MLK/FBI

Based on recently declassified files, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Pollard explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Director: Sam Pollard

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 106 min.

Year of production: 2020

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Storm Lake

A dogged family-run paper in Iowa gives citizens the scoop on forces threatening to overwhelm their precarious small-town existence.

Director: Jerry Risius | Beth Levison

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 85 min.

Year of production: 2021

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Seeding Change

The Power of Conscious Commerce

Director: Richard Yelland

Language: English, Portuguese (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 51 min.

Year of production: 2020

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CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap

Debugging the Gender Gap: What would society gain from having more women and minorities in the tech industry, and how do we get there?

Director: Robin Hauser

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 78 min.

Year of production: 2015

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OYATE

OYATE elevates the voices of Indigenous People , in the wake of the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, as they are using their newfound platform to shed light on the wide array of injustices committed against them in an effort to embark upon the process of decolonization.

Director: Brandon Jackson | Emil Benjamin

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 91 min.

Year of production: 2022

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Mary-Jo Will See You at 4

Mary-Jo receives daily visitors in her living room. As an ethnologist specialized in Darfur, her guests aren’t coming to have tea only. They need crucial help that only this 90-year-old woman can give; a chance at proving where they’re coming from when their land disappeared

Director: Camille Ponsin

Language: French (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 94 min.

Year of production: 2022

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White Coat Rebels

A true story about the state of healthcare in America.

Director: Greg Barker

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 82 min.

Year of production: 2021

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Not Going Quietly

Ady Barkan’s life is upended when he is diagnosed with ALS, but a confrontation with a powerful senator catapults him to national fame and ignites a once-in-a-generation political movement

Director: Nicholas Bruckman

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 95 min.

Year of production: 2021

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The Hunting Ground

A startling exposé of sexual assault on U.S. college campuses, institutional cover-ups and the brutal social toll on victims and their families.

Director: Kirby Dick

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 102 min.

Year of production: 2015

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Born Free: Birth in America

If birth and pregnancy are a lens on how society values its women, why has it become a fight that American women are losing?

Director: Paula James Martinez

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 95 min.

Year of production: 2022

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The Mind Game

At just 15, Sajid Khan Nasiri fled Afghanistan alone. After a two-year dangerous and hard journey, minutely documented on his phone camera, he arrives in Belgium to seek asylum. There, a whole new struggle begins. Intimate sequel to the prize-winning Shadow Game.

Director: Sajid Khan Nasiri | Eefje Blankevoort | Els van Driel

Language: Dutch, English, Pashto (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 62 min.

Year of production: 2023

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