JustFilms Collection
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Why Poverty? Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream
On New York’s Park Avenue, number 740 in Manhattan is home to the highest concentration of billionaires in the US. Just four miles away, in the South Bronx, that same avenue runs through the country’s poorest congressional district, where upward mobility seems increasingly out of reach.
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Why Poverty? Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty
Viewers travel on a dreamlike animated journey through the history of poverty—from the conditions of early hunter-gatherers to today’s financial meltdown—to examine attitudes, drivers, and solutions.
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Why Poverty? Solar Mamas
The Barefoot College in India teaches middle-aged women from poor communities to become solar engineers. Rafea Anadi risks everything to take the course, which will teach her how to bring solar power home to her Bedouin community in Jordan.
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Why Poverty? Stealing Africa
Featuring interviews with heads of state, corporate insiders, and officials from major global financial institutions, this film investigates reports of widespread criminality by well-known multinational companies operating in Africa.
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Why Poverty? Welcome to the World
We often hear that what happens within 24 hours of a child’s birth dictates that child’s chances of survival and ability to thrive in the long term. Documenting births in Sierra Leone, Cambodia, and the United States, this film puts that idea to the test.
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Red Hook Summer
Flik Royale’s summer vacation is upended when he’s sent from suburban Atlanta to stay with his preacher grandfather in the projects of Brooklyn.
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Raça
Three black Brazilians — the country’s only black senator, a pop star, and a granddaughter of slaves — create a vibrant portrait of a people fighting for racial equality in a country where half the population is of African descent.
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One Day on Earth
Shot by volunteer filmmakers in every country of the world over the 24 hours of October 10, 2010, this documentary is a mesmerizing portrait of the wonders and perils of our planet.
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Half the Sky
Shot in 10 countries, this four-hour series follows journalist Nicholas Kristof and celebrity advocates as they meet with women and girls who are living under some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable — and bravely fighting to change them.
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Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
After 40 years, Angela Davis speaks frankly about the actions that catapulted her from a 26-year-old UCLA professor to a ’70s revolutionary icon, branded her as a terrorist, and spurred a worldwide fight for her freedom.
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Endgame: AIDS in Black America
A groundbreaking exploration of one of the United States’ most urgent, preventable health crises.
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Elena
Elena, a young woman who lived under the military dictatorship in Brazil, which caused the exile of many artists, moves to New York to become an actress but is lost to suicide. Years later, her younger sister struggles to come to terms with Elena’s absence. Impressionistic images of water create a dreamlike mood.