human rights movies page 8

Freedom Swimmer (2022)
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Animation, Documentary

Olivia Martin McGuire (China Love) parallels a grandfather’s journey to safety during the Cultural Revolution with his granddaughter’s fight for...

Four Women of Egypt (1997)
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Documentary

The film revolves around four female friends (Amina, Safynaz, Shahenda and Wedad) from Egypt with opposing religious, social, and political views in...

Loyal to My Image (1992)
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Documentary, TV Movie

Through one woman's experience as an adopted person and also as a mother who relinquished her child in 1971, this documentary highlights the many...

Behind the Mask (2023)
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Documentary

Survivor Abduweli flees a Chinese Uyghur internment camp to Norway. Now, heading to Germany to confront a past torturer, his daughter’s panic...

Abigail's Dawning (2020)
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Drama, Fantasy

Suffering from addiction and homelessness, Abigail wanders the city on a cold winter late afternoon, suffering withdrawal, slipping in and out of...

Others' Gold (2012)
9 / 10

Documentary

The arrival of the mining company Osisko creates a lot of excitement in Malartic, a small community of 3600 souls in Quebec, Canada. Faced with the...

Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart (2006)
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Documentary, History

Award-winning documentary, Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart, makes extensive use of Sitting Bull’s own words, giving the viewer an intimate...

Sunken Plum (2017)
7 / 10

Drama, Mystery

Working at a nightclub in Chengdu, a transgender Chinese woman receives an unexpected visit from her cousin informing her that the mother she has...

Children of the Pyre (2008)
5.7 / 10

Documentary

This documentary follows the life of Seven children who are working under extreme conditions at India's busiest cremation ground, Manikarnika in...

The Painter's Room (1969)
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Documentary

In a deportation centre in the middle of idyllic Denmark, Artin and Jahan seek ways to bring hope to their lives and to the people around them.

A Shore Away (2022)
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Drama

Newly employed in an emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness, Geneviève is shaken to meet a young woman there whom she believed to...

Goodnight, Irene (2017)
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Documentary

An extraordinary love story of Irena and Avguštin Maučec from Turnišče, a village in the region of Prekmurje, Slovenia. In the 1990s, soon after...

Death by Rescue: The Lethal Effects of Non-Assistance at Sea (2016)
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Documentary

In April 2015, two shipwrecks in the central Mediterranean resulted in over a thousand deaths. The first, on 12 April, occurred when an overcrowded...

ARIJ - Scent of Revolution (2014)
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Documentary

What if you witness a revolution but things get worse? What if your homeland is in ruins with no signs of reconstruction? How do you cope? You can...

Motherland Memories (2022)
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Documentary

Ompung Putra Boru, a sixties indigenous Batak woman from Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatra, retraces her life stories through photographs that...

It Started with Trees – Revolt in the Gezi Park (2013)
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Documentary

Protesters diary from Gezi Park - Taksim Square, Istanbul. Occupy Gezi movement started when the government decided to build shopping mall in place...

Conflitos e Abismos: A Expressão da Condição Humana (2014)
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Animation, Documentary

Everton's painting, the focus of this documentary, expresses what is most real in man's life. In the eyes of this artist, humanity is revealed by the...

Vacant Spaces (2011)
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Drama

Two women live awaiting the return of their husbands from across the border, where they went seeking fortune. During their long wait, each one tries...

Strike or Die (2020)
7 / 10

Documentary

In October 1995, Forbach witnessed one of the most violent strikes in the history of contemporary France. A thousand or so miners took to the streets...

Um Crime Entre Nós (2020)
7.5 / 10

Documentary