Human Rights Movies

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 i...

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...

Carried by an immersive sound environment that plunges us in the reality and the perceptions of these resilient and inspiring people, this film questi...

Scott Mills travels to Uganda where the death penalty could soon be introduced for being gay. The gay Radio 1 DJ finds out what it's like to live in a...

The challenges of the present, expectations for the future, and the dreams of those who experience the reality of public high school in Brazil. Throug...

Chronicling one story of courage born out of the highly mediatized and controversial Prop 8 2008 election results in California. A Californian married...

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these circumstances, how is it that ordinary German sol...

Born in the small-town of Kutch, Rashmi overcomes all societal barriers to become a national-level athlete. But her glory is hindered when she is aske...

Six animated shorts about discrimination and being different. “Daydream” talks about dealing with people with disability. It homes in on the daily lif...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in...

Olivia Martin McGuire (China Love) parallels a grandfather’s journey to safety during the Cultural Revolution with his granddaughter’s fight for freed...

A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due to the competing interests of the many factions i...

There are countless stories of Cubans reaching their dream destination of Florida as boat refugees. A lesser known route to the United States starts w...

The story of two youngster girls who became the victims of female genital mutilation.

Alone explores the existential pain of Ukraine through the eyes of an unlikely protagonist, one of the country’s most commercially successful pop star...

Vena, a Catholic, lives in the Muslim-majority region Aceh. Vena wears veil in her daily life and befriends many Muslim friends. Nevertheless, how can...