Social Justice Movies

  • 2021
    Two Pandemics

    Two Pandemics

    Two Pandemics

    02021HD

    Seven Asian-Americans discuss their experiences with racism and the spike in Asian-directed hate crimes as a result of COVID-19.

    Two Pandemics
  • 2021
    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy

    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy

    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy

    02021HD

    For more than 100 years, thousands of Indigenous children died while in Canada’s residential school system. Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones...

    Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy
  • 2021
    Before They Fall

    Before They Fall

    Before They Fall

    02021HD

    Conservation groups, First Nations, and scientists come together in this timely short film, as a decades-long battle to protect endangered old-growth...

    Before They Fall
  • 2021
    Fairy Creek: The Last Stand

    Fairy Creek: The Last Stand

    Fairy Creek: The Last Stand

    02021HD

    In less than 150 years, 97.3% of British Columbia's old growth forests have been logged. These ancient trees and their ecosystems have been lost...

    Fairy Creek: The Last Stand
  • 2021
    Ricochet

    Ricochet

    Ricochet

    02021HD

    When a young woman is shot by an undocumented immigrant on Pier 14 in San Francisco, the incident ignites a political and media furor that culminates...

    Ricochet
  • 2021
    Inside the Fight to Save an Ancient Forest (and the Secrets it Holds)

    Inside the Fight to Save an Ancient Forest (and the Secrets it Holds)

    Inside the Fight to Save an Ancient Forest (and the Secrets it Holds)

    02021HD

    The ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest are home to giant trees and many secrets, which science is just beginning to understand. But these...

    Inside the Fight to Save an Ancient Forest (and the Secrets it Holds)
  • 2020
    Rainbow Elders

    Rainbow Elders

    Rainbow Elders

    02020HD

    Elders in the LGBTQ2+ community come together to navigate concerns around inclusion late in life, while learning how to support each other in a safe...

    Rainbow Elders
  • 2020
    An Intermission

    An Intermission

    An Intermission

    02020HD

    An Intermission is a portrait of contemporary Britain as seen through the eyes of a group of young people experiencing homelessness. For over a year...

    An Intermission
  • 2020
    We Came to Heal

    We Came to Heal

    We Came to Heal

    02020HD

    We Came to Heal” follows H.O.L.L.A!’s Healing Justice Movement - over a three years period capturing Healing Justice circles, the Healing...

    We Came to Heal
  • 2019
    Follow the Drinking Gourd

    Follow the Drinking Gourd

    Follow the Drinking Gourd

    02019HD

    FOLLOW THE DRINKING GOURD is a feature documentary about the Black food justice movement. Family-friendly, funny, and moving, this 60-minute film...

    Follow the Drinking Gourd
  • 2020
    The Prison Within

    The Prison Within

    The Prison Within

    02020HD

    Survivors of violent crimes and prisoners incarcerated for murder connect to undergo astonishing transformations, liberating themselves from the...

    The Prison Within
  • 2019
    Tranças

    Tranças

    Tranças

    02019HD

    Autobiographical documentary that brings the theme of parental alienation through the affectionate gaze of a Brazilian grandmother abruptly removed...

    Tranças
  • 2020
    Days of Cannibalism

    Days of Cannibalism

    Days of Cannibalism

    02020HD

    A Western-like documentary set in a remote rural region in Lesotho: a frontier space where the ways of modern society are of little, if any, value....

    Days of Cannibalism
  • 2018
    Tubelight

    Tubelight

    Tubelight

    02018HD

    This is the story of a homeless orphan boy who wants to go to school and learn like every child should. He doesn't have the means but manages to soak...

    Tubelight
  • 2017
    Quartiers sous tension

    Quartiers sous tension

    Quartiers sous tension

    02017HD

    Quartiers sous tension
  • 2014
    South Arcadia St.

    South Arcadia St.

    South Arcadia St.

    02014HD

    As Jordan and his teacher's escalating struggle in their high school class leads to his arrest, the pressures they each bear are revealed.

    South Arcadia St.
  • 2015
    Chasing Bonnie & Clyde

    Chasing Bonnie & Clyde

    Chasing Bonnie & Clyde

    02015HD

    'Don't build prisons, they cost too much!' In this era of Great Recession, the conservative and tough-on-crime State of Texas takes an unprecedented...

    Chasing Bonnie & Clyde
  • 2015
    70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green

    70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green

    70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green

    02015HD

    Documenting the demolition of Cabrini Green, Chicago's most infamous public housing development, through the stories of three public housing...

    70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green
  • 2014
    Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek

    Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek

    Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek

    02014HD

    When the graves of former slaves are bulldozed in Mississippi, a native son returns to protect the community they settled - a place now threatened by...

    Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek
  • 2013
    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World

    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World

    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World

    02013HD

    A social justice organization based in Oakland-Asian Immigrant Women Advocates-focused on building the collective leadership of limited-English...

    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World