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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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Bending the Arc

In the 1980s, three young people barely out of their teens began a movement that would change global health forever. Bending the Arc tells their story.

Director: Kief Davidson | Pedro Kos

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 102 min.

Year of production: 2017

African Cinema and Culture Anthropology Biography COVID-19 Current Affairs Health Human Rights Personal Story Poverty

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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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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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SHOAH

Twelve years in the making, SHOAH is Lanzmann’s monumental epic on the Holocaust and features interviews with survivors, bystanders and perpetrators in 14 countries

Director: Claude Lanzmann

Language: English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 274+293 min.

Year of production: 1985

European History Genocide History Holocaust Human Rights Jewish Studies War

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Promises

The most widely used educational media tool teaching the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a beautiful and deeply moving portrait of seven children on both sides of the divide

Director: Justine Shapiro | B.Z. Goldberg | Carlos Bolado

Language: Arabic, English, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 102 min.

Year of production: 2001

Children Conflicts Current Affairs Education Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Jewish Studies Middle Eastern Studies Personal Story Politics Society War Youth

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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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Lakota Nation vs. United States

The Lakota people's ongoing fight to reclaim the Black Hills is explored, focusing on U.S. treaty violations, land dispossession, and Indigenous resistance through historical and legal perspectives.

Director: Jesse Short Bull | Laura Tomaselli

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 130 min.

Year of production: 2022

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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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Imaginary Witness

Through film excerpts of Hollywood's most important Holocaust movies this documentary tells the story of the American film industry's complex and contradictory responses to the horrors of Nazi Germany.

Director: Daniel Anker

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 92 min.

Year of production: 2004

Arts and Culture Cinema Holocaust Jewish Studies Media War

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Driving While Black

A ground-breaking examination of the history of African Americans on the road from the early 1900’s through the 1960’s and beyond - a crucial window on issues of class, automobile culture, discrimination and national identity

Director: Gretchen Sorin | Ric Burns

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 57 + 69 min.

Year of production: 2020

African American Studies American History Current Affairs History Law and Justice Social Justice Society

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Between Revolutions (Între Revoluții)

Two friends separated by political revolutions find connection through letters, defying distance and turmoil.

Director: Vlad Petri

Language: Persian, Romanian (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 69 min.

Year of production: 2023

European History Gender History Human Rights Middle Eastern Studies Personal Story Politics Women

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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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Looted and Hidden – Palestinian Archives in Israel

Looted and Hidden delves into Palestinian archives taken by Israeli forces in the 20th century, especially Beirut '82. After a long fight for access to classified content and interviews with archive heads and Israeli troops, the film probes what's been altered or erased.

Director: Rona Sela

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 46 min.

Year of production: 2017

Conflicts Colonialism Current Affairs Ethnography History Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Middle Eastern Studies Military Personal Story Photography Politics War

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Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely

How did we come to this moment, where free speech issues have never felt more complicated and urgent, and where the nation is wondering a new: what price are we willing to pay for free speech?

Director: Yael Melamede

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 83 min.

Year of production: 2023

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A House in Jerusalem

Filmmaker Amos Gitai examines the new residents of a house he visited 18 years earlier

Director: Amos Gitai

Language: Arabic, English, French, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 89 min.

Year of production: 1998

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Middle Eastern Studies

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Riotsville, U.S.A.

Welcome to Riotsville, U.S.A., a fictional town built by the U.S. military in the 1960s, where military and police were trained to respond to civil disorder

Director: Sierra Pettengill

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 91 min.

Year of production: 2022

Activism American History Current Affairs Human Rights Law and Justice Politics Social Justice Society

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Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah

Oscar-nominated biographical documentary examining the life and work of pioneering French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, and the making of his 1985 Holocaust masterpiece Shoah

Director: Adam Benzine

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

Running Time: 40/58 min.

Year of production: 2015

Biography European History Genocide Holocaust Philosophy War

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Mr. SOUL!

Before Oprah, before Arsenio, there was Mr. SOUL! Ellis Haizlip ensures the Revolution will be televised with SOUL!, America’s first “Black Tonight Show.”

Director: Melissa Haizlip

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 104 min.

Year of production: 2018

African American Studies American History Arts and Culture Biography Music

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Who, if not us? – The Fight for Democracy in Belarus (Der Kampf um Demokratie in Belarus – Wer, wenn nicht wir?)

The 2020 protests were the largest in Belarus's history, but the Lukaschenko regime brutally suppressed them. Over the course of a year, the doc follows the struggle for democracy in Belarus through the lives of three exceptional women.

Director: Juliane Tutein

Language: Belarusian, German, Russian, Ukrainian (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 79 min.

Year of production: 2023

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Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

The life and insights of author Kurt Vonnegut

Director: Robert B. Weide | Don Argott

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 126 min.

Year of production: 2021

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Holy Holocaust

An unusual friendship between a white Israeli woman and a black German, who for 22 years believed that they could rise above historical, political, and geographical obstacles, until it explodes right in their sarcastic faces.

Director: Noa Berman-Herzberg | Osi Wald

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 18 min.

Year of production: 2021

Family History Holocaust Personal Story Women

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#Schoolyard

#Schoolyard: An Untold Story about the anatomy of a 1982 war crime in Lebanon. A Powerful Expose bringing together witnesses, perpetrators and victims 40 years later.

Director: Nurit Kedar

Language: Arabic, English, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 70 min.

Year of production: 2021

Conflicts History Human Rights Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Middle Eastern Studies Military Politics War

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Kinderland

The tale of a century-old rivalry between two progressive Jewish summer camps and their attempt at a newfound alliance, inspiring unity within today’s divided world.

Director: Amy Grappell

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 32 min.

Year of production: 2021

Activism American History Children Current Affairs Diversity Education Human Rights Jewish Studies Labor Politics Social Justice Society Youth

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A Symphony for a Common Man (Sinfonia de um homem comum)

In 2002, Brazilian ambassador José Bustani, the first director of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), tried to prevent Iraq’s destruction but was forced out by US pressure. Nearly twenty years later, Bustani and others look back.

Director: José Joffily

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

Running Time: 85 min.

Year of production: 2022

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