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At a moment when the threat of mass eviction is profoundly felt across the country, in the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, renters need real protections and real solutions. Follow the grassroots story of how low-income bl
Filipino human rights defenders Zara Alvarez, Anna Mariz Evangelista, and Elisa Badayos were among the 62 women killed in the Duterte administration's counterinsurgency campaign. Their loved ones remember the lives they
Through the personal stories of several former black female Civil Rights activists, Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights unearths the lesser-known story of black women's political marginalization between the
Civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall's triumph in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision to desegregate America's public schools completed the final leg of a journey of over 20 years laying the gr
Journalist Alvaro Alvarez travels with former porn-star and men’s rights activist Philipp Tanzer to a Conference on Men’s Issues, shedding light on the controversial movement.
The economic concepts of property rights and pollution are discussed, focusing on the theft of a bicycle.
The history of American women's reproductive rights from Colonial times to the present. Social customs, legislation and court decisions have impacted American women’s right to control their own bodies. Abortion and contr
In 1867, when the United States purchased the Alaska territory, the promise of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights didn't apply to Alaska Natives. Their struggle to win justice is one of the great, untold chapters of
This cartoon was featured as part of the U.S. military's "Army-Navy Screen Magazine, No. 60", issued in September 1945. The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided
A woman growing up in Washington, DC was outraged to learn that her parents could not vote. As an adult, she knows the right to vote cannot be taken for granted.
When he rolled into the Jim Crow South on a Greyhound bus - a black man sitting in the whites-only front seat - James Farmer was scared. "Courage is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear,"
An educational about the history of the Suffrage ERA movements in the United States.
Women talk about the consequences of having or not having access to effective birth control. Over the past 50 years, medical and social advances have given women more control over their reproductive health.
Multiple generations of women talk about balancing family and career. They chose to work at home while raising a family, build a career before having children, or live happily without children.
In Rights Not Rescue, the film’s subjects question Cambodia’s focus on training ‘Rescued’ female sex workers to sew in low wage garment factories. They want governments, NGOs, labour unions, and donors to seriously addre
An exploration of the conditions of Muslim women from the present to the past and a vision of their future.
A Documentary film about the life and activism of LGBTQ Scot Kath Duncan The most important Uk Civil rights leader past 100 years but almost forgotten in time until my Highly acclaimed stage play #liberty and my biograph
The An Embrace Of Hope concert was a de facto post-script to the Human Rights Now! tour. It took place in Chile - a country that for political reasons it was not possible for the Human Rights Now! tour to visit during th
Follows the progress of the Euromaidan revolution from the perspective of LGBT Ukrainians. From accounts of exile and torture, to stories of resistance, this film shows a side of the conflict in Ukraine the world has not
The history of unequal pay ,from enslaved African-American women forced to work for no pay at all, to working women in the 1800s whose wages were the property of their husbands and fathers. Over 50 years later, we have y