JustFilms Collection
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Roberto Clemente
Born in Puerto Rico, Roberto Clemente was an exceptional baseball player and humanitarian whose career sheds light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights, and cultural change.
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Secrecy
Is government secrecy the key to victory in our struggle against terrorism, or our Achilles heel? Focusing on classified secrets, this film explores the tensions between our safety as a nation and our ability to function as a democracy.
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Torturing Democracy
With exclusive interviews, explosive documents, and rare archival footage, this series tells the inside story of how the U.S. government adopted torture as official policy in the aftermath of 9/11.
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Traces of the Trade
After Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were part of the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history, she and fellow descendants set off to learn more, uncovering the extent of Northern complicity in slavery while stumbling through the minefield of contemporary race relations.
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Trouble the Water
An aspiring rap artist trapped in the Ninth Ward during Katrina films herself and her husband and neighbors. Footage of their harrowing ordeal is interwoven with news segments and with images shot in the city over the next two years.
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Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
Unnatural Causes explores the social and racial determinants of health and the stark disparities in health care nationwide. Findings reveal that low socioeconomic status is as disruptive a root cause of illness as bad habits, unlucky genes, germs, and viruses.
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Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Zora Neale Hurston’s unique artistic vision is traced back to her childhood in Eatonville, Florida (the first all-black incorporated town in the US), as insights from leading scholars are interspersed with rare footage of the rural South — some of it shot by Hurston herself.
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Begging Naked
With straightforward honesty, artist Elise Hill recounts her experiences as a 15-year old prostitute, stripper, and drug addict. When Mayor Giuliani’s zoning laws put the squeeze on the sex industry in New York, Elise must wrestle with her uncertain fate.
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Hollywood Chinese
From the early 1900s up to the present day, this documentary uses personal stories as prisms to examine how Chinese people have been represented in Hollywood, and to explore the cultural forces that influenced those depictions.
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Made in L.A.
Three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles sweatshops embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from a trendy clothing retailer.
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On the Downlow
Tending to their sexual needs “on the downlow” while maintaining a veneer of being straight, four African-American men are ultimately forced to confront the realities of their sexual choices and the subsequent effects on their lives.
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Please Vote for Me
Students in a grade 3 class at China’s Evergreen Primary School have their first encounter with democracy: an election to choose a class monitor. As eight-year-olds compete against each other for the coveted position, director Weijun Chen wonders, if democracy came to China, how would it be received?