JustFilms Collection
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Detropia
Creating a dreamlike collage of a grand city on the brink of dissolution, Detropia follows soulful pragmatists and stalwart philosophers whose grit and pluck embody the spirit of the Motor City as it struggles to survive postindustrial America.
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America by the Numbers with Maria Hinojosa
Through in-depth reporting, statistical analysis, and compelling storytelling, Maria Hinojosa explores how growing numbers of Asians, Latinos, African Americans, people of mixed race, immigrants, women, youth, and LGBT people are influencing elections, commerce, and culture.
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Advise and Dissent
Politics and justice collide as two opposing lobbyists and two lions of the US Senate navigate the nominating process for candidates for the US Supreme Court. In an unexpectedly suspensive narrative, the candidates inflame passions and provoke surprising conflicts and shifting alliances.
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Dear Mandela
When their shantytowns are threatened with mass eviction, three “young lions” of South Africa’s new generation take their government to the highest court in the land, putting promises of democracy to the test.
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Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
A 1982 documentary film becomes forensic evidence in a genocide case against a Guatemalan military dictator. Each effort in the case becomes a granito, a tiny grain of sand, in the attempt to tip the scales of justice.
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Out in America
A collection of transformative stories and inspiring narratives from some of the country’s most prominent LGBT figures, pioneers, and everyday citizens.
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The Island President
Newly elected Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed fights to protect his low-lying country from the threat of rising sea levels. He travels to the Copenhagen Climate Summit, emerging as a leading voice in the call for urgent action on climate change.
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Women, War, and Peace
By putting women at the center of an urgent dialogue about conflict and security, this series challenges the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain and reframes our understanding of modern warfare.
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Lemon
Ex-con turned poet/performer Lemon Andersen fights for an escape from generations of poverty by bringing his life’s secrets to the New York stage. But revisiting his troubled past has more in store for him than he bargained for, as he is confronted by his demons time and again.
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Barbershop Punk
Barbershop quartet baritone Robb Topolski finds himself at ground zero of a landmark case whose outcome will affect the future of the Internet and the rights of every American citizen.
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If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise
In 2006, director Spike Lee created a startling record of the cataclysmic effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans with his award-winning documentary When the Levees Broke. Five years later, Lee returns to New Orleans to see how the ambitious plans to reinvent the Crescent City are playing out.
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My Perestroika
A complex picture of the dreams and disillusionment of those raised behind the Iron Curtain, this documentary follows five ordinary Russians from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia.