Human Rights Movies

Going to the doctor to make a diagnosis or to have a treatment is a common thing in the outside world. But for every prisoner it is a very difficult...

Newly employed in an emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness, Geneviève is shaken to meet a young woman there whom she believed...

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

After being brutally murdered, the spirit of a traumatized mother embarks on a desperate quest to protect the child she left behind, only to discover...

"Kartli" refers both to Georgia’s medieval kingdom and a Tbilisi sanatorium sheltering refugees from the 1990s war in Abkhazia, meant as...

Alternating interview segments, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from Aimé Césaire's play La Tragédie du roi Christophe...

Indonesia, 1965: hundreds and even thousands of people are arrested without warrant. Some did come back, the others lost without trace. Svet, one of...

We Are Not Princesses is a documentary film about the incredible strength and spirit of four Syrian women living as refugees in Beirut as they come...

How would you claim your identity in a hostile land? How could you live under harassment and repression? How would you make your voice break through...

Dorival, a man in jail, has only one wish: to take a bath. To achieve his objective, he defies the private, the corporal, the sargeant and, finally,...

Is our food bought at the price of famine in the developing world? Is agribusiness more interested in producing profits than producing food? This PBS...

An unlikely collaboration between a forensic scientist from Texas and a group of Latin American students changes the course of forensic science and...

"letters to eleanore" is a poignant feature-length documentary that explores the intertwined journeys of two remarkable girls, Keith from Canto...

Sahar a 17 year old student is determined to skip high school during the recess to attend the football stadium to watch the football match between...

Far from home, a young Burmese man struggles to escape the weight of a brutal and unforgiving military coup, threatening both his nation’s...

Building on Forensic Architecture’s previous investigation into herbicidal warfare and its effects on Palestinian farmers along the eastern...

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

Through the stories of a custodian, pediatrician, housewife and others who have experienced the brutal violence in war-torn Sudan, Bruce David Janu's...

A story of the sacrifice of farmers in defending their land from the mining permit given by the local government to a big company in the district of...