Human Rights Movies

A furious, iconoclastic attack on power and the media in a modern France where Islamophobia has become mainstream and inequality is growing from the...

Laleh is a true story of a young woman in post-revolution Iran, struggling against all odds to break through in one of the most male dominated sports...

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...

This poetic film follows director Marialuisa's journey with Anita and Leticia, Central American women traveling with the Caravan of Mothers of...

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

In Russia, criticizing the war in Ukraine or Vladimir Putin’s regime has become a crime. Thousands of ordinary citizens are being arrested,...

As an act of reparation and remembrance, victims and survivors of state terrorism recount how the clandestine detention center operated at the 4th...

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

On the border of Surinam and French Guyana, indigenous Wayana territory is overrun by intruders. Illegal gold miners poison the river, missionaries...

For fifty years, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark has challenged the abuses of U.S. power and championed the causes of human rights.

In the Briançonnais mountains, in France, men and women on the roads of exile find the courage to cross the passes on foot, risking their...

It’s the last dictatorship of Europe, caught in a Soviet time-warp, where the secret police is still called the KGB and the president rules by...

The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the...

In 1975, in a village in southern Morocco, a young illiterate woman’s attempt to write to her absent husband becomes an intimate act of...

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...

In a remote village of Malisbong, a grieving widow finds solace in a mannequin she believes to be her deceased husband. As she delves deeper into...

Samir, a young student from Hamburg, lives with his best friend in a shared apartment and is in a happy relationship. Everything seems...