The March, also known as The March to Washington, is a 1964 documentary film by James Blue about the 1963 civil rights March on Washington. It was made for the Motion Picture Service unit of the United States Information Agency for use outside the United States – the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act prevented USIA films from being shown domestically without a special act of Congress. In 1990 Congress authorized these films to be shown in the U.S. twelve years after their initial release. In 2008, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (Wikipedia)
A film about one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, the moment when the radical spirit of the 1960s upstaged the greatest sporting event in the world. Two men made a courageous gesture that reverberated around the world, and changed their lives forever. This film is about Tommie Smith and John Carlos' protest at the 1968 Olympics.
2016 ging der amerikanische Footballer Colin Kaepernick bei der Nationalhymne, die vor jedem Spiel gesungen wird, auf die Knie. Es war ein Akt des Protests gegen rassistische Polizeigewalt, der das Land in eine Debatte um Rassismus und nationale Identität stürzte. Der Dokumentarfilm erzählt von Kaepernicks Aufstieg zur Ikone einer Protestbewegung und ist heute akktueller denn je.
Weißrussland – ein vergessenes Land am Rande Europas, in dem Alexander Lukaschenko seit mehr als 20 Jahren uneingeschränkt herrscht. Der ehemalige Sowchose-Vorsitzende wurde zum Despoten des Ostens. In dem Land gibt es zwei konträre Bewegungen: Die eine schaut in Richtung Moskau und akzeptiert die autoritäre Macht. Die andere versucht, der staatlichen Kontrolle zu widerstehen, und kämpft für die Erinnerung an kritische Bürger, die vom Regime ausgelöscht wurden. Seit März 2017 ist wieder ein Wind der Revolte im Land zu spüren - kann der Traum vom weißrussischen Frühling wahr werden?
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 Lambu.
Refuge(e) traces the incredible journey of two refugees, Alpha and Zeferino. Each fled violent threats to their lives in their home countries and presented themselves at the US border asking for political asylum, only to be incarcerated in a for-profit prison for months on end without having committed any crime. Thousands more like them can't tell their stories.
"Negro em Mim" is an investigative documentary with black artists and thinkers in Brazil today. A portrait of a plural Brazil from the racial discussion promoted by a trip to 6 Brazilian cities. What do the Arts have to say about Black Brazil?
Olivia Martin McGuire (China Love) parallels a grandfather’s journey to safety during the Cultural Revolution with his granddaughter’s fight for freedom in Hong Kong today. Interweaving unflinching testimony of the elder’s exodus from the Chinese mainland, exquisitely animated recreations of the perilous escape to Hong Kong through land and sea, and vivid, evocative archival footage of both mid-20th-century China and the Hong Kong protests today, Freedom Swimmer emerges as a gripping and timely account of the struggle for survival across generations.
A Litany for Survival' explores the shades between love, rage, and rebellion as a black person surviving in America. Two months before the shocking revelation of Daniel Prude's murder video surfaced, BLM activists organize at the Mayor's house to make their case for equal human rights in the heavily segregated city of Rochester, NY.
This documentary shows the fascist might of the Marcos regime and how militarisation and human rights violations were institutionalised in Philippine political life. The film exposes the human rights violations during the Marcos regime, unmasking the dictator's claims that there were no political detainees under martial law. Arrogance of Power (1983, TRT 38 mins.) is a documentary by AsiaVisions (previously named Creative Audio-Visual Specialists or CAVS) made originally in Super 8 migrated to U-matic and digitized for access.