Human Rights Movies

  • 2024
    Seeing Through the Darkness

    Seeing Through the Darkness

    Seeing Through the Darkness

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    Carried by an immersive sound environment that plunges us in the reality and the perceptions of these resilient and inspiring people, this film...

    Seeing Through the Darkness
  • 2003
    Deacons for Defense

    Deacons for Defense

    Deacons for Defense

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    Inspired by a true story, this drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Despite the Act, the African-American citizens...

    Deacons for Defense
  • 2019
    The Cave

    The Cave

    The Cave

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    Deep beneath the surface in the Syrian province of Ghouta, a group of female doctors have established an underground field hospital. Under the...

    The Cave
  • 2015
    Trans*BUT — Fragments of Identity

    Trans*BUT — Fragments of Identity

    Trans*BUT — Fragments of Identity

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    Fragmentary perspectives on Human Rights and transgender (trans*) People in Turkey. What remains at the place where a murder happened? What...

    Trans*BUT — Fragments of Identity
  • 2019
    Collective

    Collective

    Collective

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    In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of...

    Collective
  • 2022
    China: The Uighur Tragedy

    China: The Uighur Tragedy

    China: The Uighur Tragedy

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    A relentless chronicle of the tragedy of the Uighurs, an ethnic minority of some eleven million people who live in the Xinjiang region of northwest...

    China: The Uighur Tragedy
  • 2009
    The Casuarina Cove

    The Casuarina Cove

    The Casuarina Cove

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    A former military officer makes a film about a man he encountered in Tanjong Rhu, a secluded cruising ground.

    The Casuarina Cove
  • 2016
    Political Animals

    Political Animals

    Political Animals

    5.52016HD

    The story of four pioneering lesbian politicians and the battles they fought to pass a wide range of anti-discrimination laws.

    Political Animals
  • 2020
    Black Box Syria: The Dirty War

    Black Box Syria: The Dirty War

    Black Box Syria: The Dirty War

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    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...

    Black Box Syria: The Dirty War
  • 2023
    The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History

    The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History

    The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History

    9.32023HD

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

    The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History
  • 2023
    The Walk

    The Walk

    The Walk

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    Asil is a young Syrian refugee awaiting documents in Turkey while processing the trauma of losing her home and family. Her story gives voice to a...

    The Walk
  • 1997
    Four Women of Egypt

    Four Women of Egypt

    Four Women of Egypt

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    Four female friends from Egypt with opposing religious, social, and political views listen to one another's perspectives and argue openly, without...

    Four Women of Egypt
  • 2011
    Granito: How to Nail a Dictator

    Granito: How to Nail a Dictator

    Granito: How to Nail a Dictator

    4.52011HD

    A story of destinies joined by Guatemala's past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nation's turbulent history emerges as an active player...

    Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
  • 2013
    Shahid

    Shahid

    Shahid

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    A story based on real-life human-rights and criminal lawyer, Shahid Azmi, who was slain while defending the wrongly accused by the law in terrorist...

    Shahid
  • 2024
    Behind the Looking Glass

    Behind the Looking Glass

    Behind the Looking Glass

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    Behind The Looking Glass is a film about the lives of women whose partners have or want to ‘transition’. While we hear a great deal of...

    Behind the Looking Glass
  • 2024
    Long Distance Swimmer: Sara Mardini

    Long Distance Swimmer: Sara Mardini

    Long Distance Swimmer: Sara Mardini

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    The documentary begins when the fictionalized drama ends. Sara spent three years volunteering to save refugees on the same journey that made her so...

    Long Distance Swimmer: Sara Mardini
  • 2008
    Black Power Salute

    Black Power Salute

    Black Power Salute

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    A film about one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, the moment when the radical spirit of the 1960s upstaged the greatest sporting event...

    Black Power Salute
  • 2023
    Divergente

    Divergente

    Divergente

    02023HD

    Divergente
  • 2022
    Homebound

    Homebound

    Homebound

    02022HD

    Through first person narration, Tari reveals personal stories related to her decision to work in Taiwan, her strained family relationships, the risks...

    Homebound
  • 2024
    Hiver 54 : L'Abbé Pierre et l'insurrection de la bonté

    Hiver 54 : L'Abbé Pierre et l'insurrection de la bonté

    Hiver 54 : L'Abbé Pierre et l'insurrection de la bonté

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    Hiver 54 : L'Abbé Pierre et l'insurrection de la bonté