JustFilms Collection
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Food Chains
Food Chains offers a close-up look at the exploitation of US farmworkers, the complicity of government and corporations in perpetuating human rights abuses, and the role consumers can play in ending some of the most egregious violations.
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Finding Your Roots
With a team of genealogists, noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. helps people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees.
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E-Team
E-Team follows four fiercely intrepid Human Rights Watch investigators, offering a rare look at their lives at home and in the field as they investigate abuses and gather evidence about, document, and draw world attention to the violations.
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Disruption
Aiming to expand financial inclusion across South America, a band of activist-economists works to help impoverished women become economic and political engines of their communities, and drive change from the bottom up.
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Difret
Challenging an age-old Ethiopian tradition, a zealous lawyer defends a young girl charged with murder for shooting a man who’d tried to abduct her into marriage. Difret captures the tensions of a country’s transition from tribal to civil rule of law.
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Concerning Violence
Lauryn Hill narrates an exploration of pivotal moments in the struggles for liberation by African countries, as Frantz Fanon’s landmark book The Wretched of the Earth offers insights.
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CITIZENFOUR
When filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong to meet Edward Snowden for the first time, Poitras brought her camera with her. The result is a real-life espionage story that unfolds minute by minute before our eyes.
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Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa
In his 60-year fight against apartheid, Albie Sachs endured arrest, solitary confinement, torture, and exile. Ultimately, he helped write South Africa’s Constitution and served on its first Constitutional Court. Through the lens of this freedom fighter, Soft Vengeance explores South Africa’s effort to confront its colonial past.
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Cesar’s Last Fast
At 61, Cesar Chavez went on a 36-day hunger strike to draw attention to the harmful effect pesticides were having on America’s farmworkers. His sacrifice reveals his deep spiritual commitment to his decades-long fight for workers’ rights.
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25 to Life
William Brawner kept his HIV status a secret for over 25 years. As he embarks on a new phase of his life, with his wife, who is HIV negative, Brawner seeks redemption from his promiscuous past and struggles to carve out an open and honest future.
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1971
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was unaccountable and untouchable until 1971, when a group of citizens broke into an FBI office and exposed the agency’s surveillance program and intimidation tactics. After more than 40 years, the perpetrators step up to share their story.
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Young Lakota
When the first female president of the Oglala Lakota defies a South Dakota law criminalizing abortion and vows to build a women’s clinic on the Pine Ridge Reservation, three young members of the tribe are faced with difficult choices.