JustFilms Collection
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Food for Thought; Food for Life
As farms become supersized, the environment suffers and so does the quality of food grown for consumption. Food for Thought, Food for Life asks audiences to think differently about food and to make new decisions that will positively impact public health, the earth and their communities.
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Years of Living Dangerously
From the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy to the upheaval caused by drought in the Middle East, this series explores the human impact of climate change through reporting by respected journalists and Hollywood stars.
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We Are the Giant
During the Arab Spring, six people confront the agonizing dilemma at the core of all struggles for justice and freedom: whether to take up arms and fight or use nonviolent means to try to bring about change.
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Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
Through a Lens Darkly looks at contemporary artists probing the recesses of the American family album by interrogating images of stories suppressed, forgotten and lost. It is the first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present.
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The Supreme Price
After her father’s presidential victory is annulled and her mother is assassinated, Hafsat Abiola fights to transform Nigeria’s corrupt culture of governance into a democracy capable of serving the country’s most marginalized citizens: women.
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The Shore Break
Set on South Africa’s Wild Coast, The Shore Break tells the story of two cousins whose opposing ideas about how to develop their land divide their rural community and play out against a backdrop of national politics.
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The Hand That Feeds
Shy sandwich maker Mahoma Lopez unites his undocumented immigrant co-workers to fight abusive conditions at a popular New York restaurant chain. The power struggle that ensues turns a single city block into a battlefield in America’s new wage wars.
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Nas: Time Is Illmatic
Twenty years after the release of his groundbreaking debut album, Nas shares stories of his upbringing, influences — from his jazz musician father, Olu Dara, to New York’s burgeoning hip-hop scene and evolution from young street poet to visionary MC.
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Miners Shot Down
Miners Shot Down reconstructs South Africa’s 2012 Marikana miners’ strike through testimony and footage of a nonviolent demonstration that, at the hands of state police, turns into a bloody massacre, leaving 30 dead and many more injured.
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Marmato
The residents of Marmato, a 500-year-old Colombian mining town situated on a mountain containing $20 billion worth of gold, stand up to a Canadian company wanting to displace them to make way for an open-pit mining project.
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Kumu Hina
The struggle to maintain Pacific Islander culture and values within the Westernized society of modern Hawaii is told through the lens of a Native Hawaiian who is both a proud and confident Māhū, or transgender woman, and an honored and respected kumu, or teacher, cultural practitioner, and community leader.
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Hate Crimes in the Heartland
The stories of two crimes committed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, more than 90 years apart shed light on the 250,000 hate crimes committed in the United States each year.