JustFilms Collection
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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am offers an artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the legendary storyteller and Nobel prize-winner. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to ‘70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature. Inspired to write because no one took a “little black girl” seriously, Morrison reflects on her lifelong deconstruction of the master narrative. Woven together with a rich collection of art, history, literature and personality, the film includes discussions about her many critically acclaimed works, including novels “The Bluest Eye,” “Sula” and “Song of Solomon,” her role as an editor of iconic African-American literature and her time teaching at Princeton University.
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Marcos Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Marcos Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is a love story that puts a human face on America’s immigration debate. Marine veteran Elizabeth Perez and her undocumented husband, Marcos, live parallel lives across the border in the years after Marcos’s deportation. As Elizabeth fights for Marcos to return to the US to be with their children, Marcos struggles alone in Mexico City. After hitting a legal brick wall, the family ultimately reunites in the Yucatan. But will they remember how to live together?
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Crime + Punishment
Over four years of unprecedented access, the story of a brave group of black and Latino whistle blower cops and one unrelenting private investigator who, amidst a landmark lawsuit, risk everything to expose illegal quota practices and their impact on young minorities.
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The Feeling of Being Watched
When journalist Assia Boundaoui investigates rumors of surveillance in her Arab-American neighborhood in Chicago, she uncovers one of the largest FBI terrorism probes conducted before 9/11 and reveals its enduring impact on the community.
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Roll Red Roll
The story of a football town divided, Roll Red Roll examines the aftermath of a sexual assault in small town America. With unprecedented access to police documents, exhibits and evidence, the film unflinchingly asks: “why didn’t anyone stop it?”
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The Fourth Estate
This documentary series about The New York Times in the Trump era illuminates critical issues facing journalism today. In this first episode, the first three months of Trump’s presidency tests the stamina of the political reporters at The New York Times as they adapt to a nonstop news cycle, an unpredictable White House, and the President calling them “the enemy of the people.”
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Angels Are Made of Light
Angels are Made of Light reveals the daily struggles and inner lives of students and teachers at a school in Kabul, Afghanistan during the closing years of America’s longest war.
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Call Her Ganda
Grassroots activists in the Philippines are spurred into action following the brutal murder of a local transgender woman, Jennifer Laude, at the hands of a U.S. marine on “liberty leave.” As they demand answers and a just trial, hidden histories of U.S. colonization and abuse come bubbling to the surface.
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Akicita
In the shadow of the largest Native American political occupation since Wounded Knee thousands of water protectors from around the world have descended on Standing Rock, North Dakota to resist the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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People’s Republic of Desire
In China’s popular virtual showrooms, three youths seek fame, fortune and human connection, but find the same promises and perils online as in their real lives.
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House Two
A look at the investigation of two U.S. Marines who killed 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women and children in 2005– some of them at close range inside a small back bedroom in what investigators would later dub “House Two“.
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Mr. SOUL!
A documentary about television pioneer Ellis Haizlip and his 1960-early 70’s program SOUL! which brought black artists, activists, performers, poets and leading black cultural figures to the national prime time broadcast schedule.