Social Justice Movies

Laila Lives in a fake eastern society where all women should wear a veil and the only way of marriage is to be selected by a man, she refuses this...

An undocumented immigrant receives a heartwarming yet heartbreaking phone call from his daughter across the border.

Man-pulled rickshaw, which have served Kolkata for over eight decades face virtual extinction as a result of legislation introduced by the State...

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

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

When mobile nurse Esma finds one of her patients dead, the strictly timed schedule of her day is thrown off balance. Between professional ethics and...

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

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

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...

'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...

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...

This often confronting documentary observes a Māori restorative justice model through the eyes of straight-talking Mike Hinton, manager of...

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

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...

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...

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...

Honorable Ronald V. Dellums, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2005 Community Leadership Awards (Robert C. Kirkwood Award) - for his decades of...

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...

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