JustFilms Collection
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Beyond the Bricks
African American students Shaquiel Ingram and Erick Graham struggle to stay on track in the public school system of Newark, New Jersey.
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Copyright Criminals
How hip-hop rose from the streets of New York to become a multibillion-dollar industry, and what happened when record company lawyers got involved.
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Estilo Hip Hop
Three young men from Brazil, Chile, and Cuba who strongly believe that hip-hop can change the world mobilize youth to become politically active. Estilo Hip Hop tells their story as risks increase and they face serious personal and political challenges.
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Have You Heard from Johannesburg?
Citizen activists fought for three decades to bring down the brutal, racist system of apartheid in South Africa when their governments would not. This unprecedented international movement is chronicled in five parts.
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Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
In the 1940s, when a white, Jewish intellectual named Melville Herskovits asserted that black culture was not pathological, but instead grounded in deep African roots, he gave vital support to the civil rights movement and signaled the rise of identity politics. But what does it mean that his subjects had little or no say in the academic discourse about them?
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New Muslim Cool
Puerto Rican American rapper Hamza Perez left drug dealing and street life behind and became a Muslim. Now he’s working to start a new religious community, rebuild his shattered family, and take his message of faith to other young people through hard-hitting hip-hop music. But when the FBI raids his mosque, Hamza must confront the realities of the post-9/11 world.
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RFK in the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope
Through never-before-seen archival footage and interviews in South Africa and the United States, the story of Robert Kennedy’s 1966 visit to South Africa during the worst years of apartheid is told.
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Sergio
The diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello served in the United Nations for more than 30 years, dying tragically at UN headquarters in Baghdad in 2003. Haunting footage documents that shocking day. Based on Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power’s biography Sergio: One Man’s Fight to Save the World.
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The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and his team issue arrest warrants for Lord’s Resistance Army leaders in Uganda, put a Congolese warlord on trial, and charge Sudan’s president with crimes against humanity. Will the court succeed?
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We Shall Remain
Five heartbreaking yet inspiring stories highlight Native ingenuity and resilience, upending two-dimensional stereotypes of American Indians and establishing Native history as an essential part of American history.
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Full Disclosure: A Reporter’s Journey toward Truth In Iraq
Filmmaker-journalist Brian Palmer follows a US Marines combat unit through revolving-door deployments to Iraq, capturing the cycle of tedium and terror that traps Iraqis and Americans alike within the amorphous combat zone.
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Faubourg Tremé
The home of jazz and the birthplace of civil rights in the South, Faubourg Tremé in New Orleans may be America’s oldest African American neighborhood.