JustFilms Collection
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Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route
Detroit 48202 examines the rise, demise, and contested resurgence of Detroit through the lens of mail carrier Wendell Watkins and the residents he has faithfully served for 30 years.
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Silas
Through the focus on one country, Silas is a global tale that warns of the power of politics and celebrates the power of individuals to fight back, seize control of their lands and protect their environment.
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Nothing Without Us: The Women Who Will End AIDS
Nothing Without Us: The Women Who Will End AIDS reveals how women not only shaped grassroots groups like ACT-UP in the U.S., but have also played essential roles in HIV prevention and the treatment access movement throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
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The Long Season
The Long Season is a documentary about life in Majdal Anjar, a Syrian camp in Lebanon, and the daily activities of those whose lives are postponed, waiting to return to Raqqa.
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Unrest
Jennifer is twenty-eight years-old, working on her PhD at Harvard, and months away from marrying the love of her life when a mysterious fever leaves her bedridden. When doctors tell her it’s “all in her head,” she picks up her camera as an act of defiance and brings us into a hidden world of millions that medicine abandoned.
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Collisions
We go on a virtual reality journey into the Western Australian desert, the land of the Martu tribe. Elder Nyarri Morgan’s introduction to Western culture was a collision between science and spirit. Here he gives the Martu perspective on caring for the planet for future generations.
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Do Not Resist
From Ferguson, Missouri, to a high-end weapons technologies presentation for police buyers, to a community that has just received its very own military-grade tank, we witness the rapid militarization of the police in the United States.
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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Maya Angelou’s frank narratives of abuse and racism have opened the eyes of many. From a childhood of neglect she traveled a path that culminated in her career as a celebrated author and her renown as an influential civil rights activist.
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Raising Bertie
Three boys come of age in a rural African American-led community in North Carolina, their stories weaving together as they navigate unemployment, institutional racism, violence, first love, fatherhood, and estrangement from family members and mentors.
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The Pearl
Being a middle-aged-to-senior transgender woman in the postindustrial logging towns of the Pacific Northwest can be a raw emotional and physical experience. With this as backdrop, four women grapple with varying stages of transition.
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The Return
In 2012, Californians amended the state’s Three Strikes law, the first time US citizens voted to shorten sentences of incarcerated people. Within days, prisoners were suddenly freed, families were turned upside down, and attorneys, judges, and reentry providers embarked on an unfolding reform.
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When Two Worlds Collide
When Peruvian president Alan Garcia begins aggressively extracting resources from indigenous Amazonian land, indigenous leader Alberto Pizango’s speeches against Garcia’s destructive actions prove a powerful rallying cry to Pizango’s supporters. Soon a tense war of words erupts into deadly violence.