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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
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.
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 102 min.
Year of production: 2017
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
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
The dramatic success story of the women's peace movement of Liberia
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 72 min.
Year of production: 2008
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
Language: English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 274+293 min.
Year of production: 1985
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
Language: Arabic, English, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 102 min.
Year of production: 2001
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
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
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
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
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 57 + 69 min.
Year of production: 2020
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.
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 91 min.
Year of production: 2022
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
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
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
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
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 91 min.
Year of production: 2022
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
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.”
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 104 min.
Year of production: 2018
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.
Language: Belarusian, German, Russian, Ukrainian (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 79 min.
Year of production: 2023
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
The life and insights of author Kurt Vonnegut
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 126 min.
Year of production: 2021
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.
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 18 min.
Year of production: 2021
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
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