Human Rights Movies

The powerful and inspiring true story of the controversial human rights campaigner whose provocative acts of civil diso bedience rocked the British...

Born in the small-town of Kutch, Rashmi overcomes all societal barriers to become a national-level athlete. But her glory is hindered when she is...

There are countless stories of Cubans reaching their dream destination of Florida as boat refugees. A lesser known route to the United States starts...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in...

Documentary about the Lyon sex workers who occupied the church of St. Nizier on June 3, 1975.

It’s the last dictatorship of Europe, caught in a Soviet time-warp, where the secret police is still called the KGB and the president rules by...

Vera and Gabriel, an elderly couple, navigate through past and present, telling their own life story. Their remembering, rendered in images from...

Svetlana has lost her son who was found dead while he was in the army. As she tries to shed light on the culture of violence and abuse in the...

A Woman's Soul unveils the world of Rio de Janeiro's travestites - these mythological figures who have opt for sexual ambiguity. Caricatures of women...

Olivia Martin McGuire (China Love) parallels a grandfather’s journey to safety during the Cultural Revolution with his granddaughter’s...

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first...

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these circumstances, how is it that ordinary German...

Lucía is a young history teacher in Santa Lucía –a town in the jungle of Tucumán that was occupied by military forces from...

A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due to the competing interests of the many factions...

A striking political activist and refugee from Paraguay escapes to Paris and falls in love with a rich law student changing their lives forever. The...

An ill Central American single mother risks her life in order to give her son a stable future in the United States.

Tells the story of a young student and his spanish journalist friend who, after being victims of violence, they decide to act and organize a...

Everyone knows the phrase “Black is Beautiful,” but few know of the man who helped popularize it. Little known Harlem based photographer...