Human Rights Movies

A tribute to the late Pat Schulz, an influential Canadian feminist.

Sara is a judge very committed to the cases she hears in her office. After meeting David, a young artist, on the beach, she must make decisions about...

Zoya Diwan and her 8 year old son are stuck in an abusive marriage with her activist husband, when she is sought out for help by a victim of Triple...

While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies above, Fadia, a Palestinian refugee stranded in Lebanon, yearns for the ancestral homeland she is...

Caste Aside is a documentary about the British government's controversial decision on whether or not to introduce legislation against caste...

Award-winning documentary, Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart, makes extensive use of Sitting Bull’s own words, giving the viewer an intimate...

An undercover documentary film produced and directed by British filmmaker Dominic Brown, about the struggle of the indigenous Sahrawi people of...

A young nun's encounter with the underworld of child labor in Sumba restores her sense of purpose in life.

This short film recounts efforts in the 20th century to develop programs and procedures that protect human subjects of research. Citing selected...

Delia Giovanola, one of the founder of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, recounts the initial search for kidnapped grandchildren during Argentina's last...

A film that takes an in-depth look into the lives of the widows of the Sikh men who were killed in the anti-Sikh massacre of November, 1984. This was...

Benjamin Woolley presents the gripping story of Nicholas Culpeper, the 17th century radical pharmacist who took on the establishment in order to...

An artist's sculpture is burnt down, a protester is charged with a criminal case, and a democracy movement is violently attacked. In the United...

Growing up in times of conflict - 13-year old Palestinian girls Wafaa and Raneen from two different Westbank villages are faced with the option of...

War and Justice is the first and only true-life documentary about the International Criminal Court (ICC), thanks to unprecedented access to Ben...

Carmela lives with her husband and eight children near the Ecuadorian-Colombian border. This 56-year-old Afro-Ecuadorian woman opened her home to...