Filmakers - Human Rights

Human Rights

29 film(s) found

	The 10 Conditions of Love Rebiya Kadeer is a human rights activist twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She is the impassioned though graying exiled leader who continues to lobby for the Uyghurs, a Muslim people whose ancestral home was annexed by the Chinese in 1949. more »
	American Renegade This admiring portrait of indefatigable social activist Abe Osheroff weaves through twentieth century American history, bringing alive historical issues for a new audience. more »
	The Angel Returns A Somalian woman uses all methods at her disposal to change the mindset of her people about circumcision. more »
	Asylum: Fleeing Genital Mutilation This powerful documentary chronicles a Ghanaian young woman’s desperate attempt to escape the ritual of female circumcision in her native land. more »
	Blood in the Mobile: Mining in the Congo This riveting documentary reveals that inside our mobile phones are illegally mined minerals, minerals that fuel conflict, create child slavery, and support other severe human rights abuses in the Congo. more »
	Children of Rio This film gives voice to the street children of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil whose dire circumstances forces them to beg, steal and deal drugs. Their loyalty to one another has helped them to survive. more »
	Children of Shadows In Haiti, some destitute families give up young children to work as unpaid domestics in other households. The film reveals this exploitation more »
	Children of the Silver Mountain Bolivia has silver mines which date back to the Spanish conquest. The miners work in hazardous conditions that have not improved over the years, for a meager livelihood. more »
	The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez A 15-year-old brought up by a Mexican family while his mother was incarcerated in the U.S. as a Puerto Rican nationalist, finally comes to know his mother. more »
	Failing Haiti Haiti is a nation caught in a tragic, downward spiral. Its economy is broken, its land denuded, and its children hungry. Combining vivid footage with interviews of those in the throes of events, the film documents the US and UN's failure to help a country in crisis. more »
	The Genocide in Me This intensely personal film traces the filmmaker’s search for identity within the culture of her Armenian parents and in the context of the larger multicultural society in which she lives. Weaving together archival footage and interviews with elderly survivors of the Genocide, it creates a deeply felt portrayal of a holocaust that the Turks deny. more »
	Good Fortune Good Fortune is a rare and intimate portrait of two vibrant Kenyan communities, one rural, one urban, battling to save their homes and businesses from large-scale development organizations more »
	Human Rights in Haiti Through exclusive historical footage, interviews, and artworks, this film provides a history of the Haitian people's struggle for freedom. more »
	Indian Revolt Bolivia, the poorest of the South American countries, is on the verge of civil war. After centuries of oppression, the Indian people are now demanding their rights, including the nationalization of Bolivia's natural gas. This is a matter of concern to the U.S. more »
	Licence to Kill This BBC film exposes how fundamentalist interpretation of the Koran in Pakistan leaves women vulnerable to be murdered for seeking divorce. more »
	The Minutemen Aggravated by the influx of undocumented immigrants and fed up with the lack of government involvement, the self-appointed Minutemen take up watch along the border between the United States and Mexico. more »
	The New Gulag This hard-hitting film shows that building and maintaining prisons has become an industry, with emphasis on the bottom line. Tough prisons are condemned by human rights groups. more »
	Nowhere Else to Live Half the population of Mexico City are illegal squatters. This film introduces us to several families struggling to survive, putting a human face to Mexico's urban problems. more »
	Orhan Pamuk: Facing Up to Turkey’s Past Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s best-known modern novelist and winner of the Nobel prize in 2006, became a pariah in his country overnight for speaking out about the Turkish role in the Armenian genocide. He insists the nation should know the truth about its history, and that there must be freedom of speech. more »
	Plum Blossom in Snow: Falun Gong in China Falun Gong is an ancient meditative practice that enjoyed a revival in China in the 1990’s. For years, however, the government has been brutally cracking down on practitioners. more »
	Price of Honour The tragic story of Pela Atroshi, a daughter of Kurdish immigrants living in Sweden, who was murdered by her family after she went out on a date. more »
	Sometimes I Must Speak Out The Bishop of East Timor, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, dares to speak out against Indonesia's relentless oppression. more »
	Trafficked: Children as Sexual Slaves Prostitution and sex trafficking of women and children is a global problem. The United Nations estimates that more than one million children are forced into sexual slavery each year. This powerful documentary follows Chris Payne, a former police officer turned private investigator, as he investigates this traumatizing crime. more »
	Under the River: Exploited Children of Ghana In Ghana, children as young as three and as old as sixteen are often sent away from home to work in bondage for small payments, desperately needed by impoverished families. more »
	War Babies A powerful portrait of adults born as a result of wartime rape who now need to come to terms with their origins. Filmed in Bangladesh, Bosnia, Rwanda and Nicaragua. more »
	Welcome to North Korea This film, shot mostly covertly, shows the irony of a regime where 20 million people live in poverty, some on the brink of starvation, while former dictator Kim II Sung builds extravagant monuments to reflect his power. more »
	Who Killed Vincent Chin? This Academy Award-nominated film makes a powerful statement about racism in working-class America. It details the stark facts of the case of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American man who was brutally murdered in a fight with a Detroit auto worker, and the ensuing trial and rally for justice. more »
	Women at Risk The focus is on three vulnerable women refugees who must cope with being uprooted. One is a 13 year-old Vietnamese girl living in a camp in Malaysia, another a widow from Mozambique and the third is a Salvadorian mother living precariously with three children in Costa Rica. more »
	Zimbabwe: Countdown This documentary provides a personal insight into the plight of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) under the brutal regime of Mugabe. What was to be a liberation movement turned into despair, with rage, riots, killing and starvation rampant. more »