Social Justice Movies

'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...

An intimate insider’s journey to uncover buried truths and explore how the community in Monroe, Georgia has been impacted by the 1946 quadruple...

Anne Braden: Southern Patriot is a first person documentary about the extraordinary life of this American civil rights leader. Braden was hailed by...

A small group of activists take on systemic racism and prejudice in Baltimore's public transportation, battling against the odds to create a brighter...

Buenos Aires is a complex, chaotic city. It has European style and a Latin American heart. It has oscillated between dictatorship and democracy for...

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

The Hundred Squares: "No more delays," the cry of citizens echoes from the lives of those barely holding out against discrimination and hatred....

"Gaza Is Our Home" is a profoundly personal documentary that peels back the layers of devastation within the Gaza Strip, as witnessed through the...

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

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...

From the Black Earth is a collaboration between Bristol based company Cables and Cameras, and a local farmer Humphrey Lloyd. Employing both lucid...

In contrast to the lens that focuses exclusively on the racist traditions that are rooted in America’s social history, the moral counterweight...

This documentary tells the story about Andrew Hawkins Sr. & Mary Lou Hawkins suing the town of Shaw, Mississippi as a family for the disparities...

Arabella Martinez, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2005 Community Leadership Awards (The San Francisco Foundation Award), was recognized for...

Raymond Gaines spent 47 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, sustained by an unshakable spirit and an enduring love of the game.

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

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...

In the summer of 2004, the Mayor of Lewiston, Maine announced a plan to develop a four-lane boulevard across downtown's low-income neighborhood. This...

One night in 1983, the life of the Yangali family changed completely. The four brothers from the town of Churcampa in Ayacucho were attacked and...

Residents of a Melbourne social housing community strive to reclaim their own hope and identity in the face of recent deaths and a larger societal...