Genre: Documentary

Four Women of Egypt

Four Egyptian women have the same goals–human dignity and social justice–but each adopts an approach radically different from the others.

Frontline: The Rise of ISIS

Frontline investigates the miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS. Correspondent Martin Smith reports from Iraq on how the country began coming undone after the American withdrawal and what it means for the U.S. to be fighting there again.

Futbolito: A Journey Through Central America

A chronicle of five New England young people who travel through Guatemala and Nicaragua to show how a cooperative foot game can be used to make cross-cultural bridges.

Gacaca: Living Together Again in Rwanda?

About the Gacaca Tribunals, citizen-led public hearings that allow victims and their families an opportunity to face accused killers.

Good Hair

Prompted by a question from his young daughter, comic Chris Rock sets out to explore the importance of hair in black culture. Rock interviews celebrities such as Ice-T and Raven Symone, and visits hair salons, stylist competitions and even an Indian temple to learn about hair culture.

Grace, Milly, Lucy

In Uganda, more than 30,000 children have been abducted by rebel troops over the past 20 years and forced into armed conflict.

Grace Paley: Collected Shorts

Grace Paley reminisces about her work, life and family and her literary and political influence.

Half the Sky

Take an unforgettable journey with six actress/advocates and New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof to meet some of the most courageous individuals of our time, who are doing extraordinary work to empower women and girls everywhere.

Hunted: The War Against Gays in Russia

In modern day Russia, a recent anti-gay amendment to a “propaganda” law has triggered a large amount of assaults.

India’s Daughter

About a horrific gang rape and beating death of a 23 year old female medical student, Jyoti Singh in Delhi, India and what ensues legally and in mass nonviolent protests.

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers

This documentary from Robert Greenwald argues that corporations have made a fortune from the Iraq War.

It’s a Girl!

Infanticide of females worldwide, particularly India and China.

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

Portrays the 1990 Oka Crisis between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada.

Love & Solidarity

Told with passion and sharp political insight, Love and Solidarity brings to the fore the voices of people on the front lines of social change, most especially James Lawson, who is a decades-long practitioner of nonviolence. It is a must see for students, teachers, and activists to think about the legacy of civil rights activism and to understand the roots of contemporary political organizing.

Mandela: The Living Legend

Recollection of Nelson Mandela’s life including leadership of the ANC party and the struggle against Apartheid; his term in office; and his time spent in Robben Island Prison.

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

Linguist and liberal political activist Noam Chomsky presents his thought on how the mass media works against democracy’s best interests.

Mighty Times: The Children’s March

The children of Baltimore, Maryland take to the streets to fight for civil rights in 1963.

Mr. Civil Rights

This film documents civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall’s triumph in the 1954 Brown v. the Board of Education Supreme Court decision to desegregate America’s public schools completed the final leg of a journey of over 20 years laying the groundwork to end legal segregation.

Never Again? Genocide Since the Holocaust

Examines the chronicle of genocide with a look at Mao’s purges in China, Cambodia under Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, the Arab/Israeli conflict, border wars in Pakistan and Bangladesh and killing in Central America.