Directed by Olivier Magis • Documentary • 2019 • 82 minutes

Fifty years ago, the entire Creole population of the Chagos Islands was expelled by the British authorities. This secret operation took place to facilitate the leasing of the main island, Diego Garcia, to the US government so that it co...

Directed by Yung Chang • Documentary • With Robert Fisk • 2019 • 109 minutes

For more than 40 years, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world.

Yung Chang’s This Is Not a Movie captures Fisk in action—feet on the ground, notebook in hand...

Directed by Mira Nair • Documentary • 1979 • 20 minutes

Mira Nair's (Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay!) personal record of street life around the Jama Masjid, or Great Mosque, in the old city of Delhi, India.

Director Nair discusses her thoughts on confronting people uncertain what to make of her...

Directed by Vitaly Mansky and Yevhen Titarenko • Documentary • 2023 • 98 minutes

On February 24, 2022, Yevhen Titarenko didn’t have to puzzle over what he should do. He went to the front. And from the first minute of Russia’s large-scale aggression against Ukraine, he began to record everything ...

Directed by Thom Andersen & Noel Burch • Documentary • With Billy Woodberry, Paul Jarrico, Alfred Lewis Levitt, Abraham Polonsky, Ayn Rand • 2014 • 118 minutes

A fascinating documentary by Thom Andersen (director of Los Angeles Plays Itself) and Noel Burch (author of To The Distant Observer), Re...

Directed by Vitaly Mansky • Documentary • 2016 • 114 minutes

Following Ukraine’s revolution in 2013, filmmaker Vitaly Mansky decides to travel throughout the region and visit his family. He talks on camera with family members in Ukraine, Crimea and Donetsk, hoping to gain a better understanding ...

Directed by Edet Belzberg • Documentary • With Samantha Power, Benjamin Ferencz, Emmanuel Uwurukundo • 2015 • 121 minutes

With his provocative question, “why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?” Raphael Lemkin changed the course of history. An extraordin...

Directed by Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland • Documentary • 2024 • 79 minutes

The film Lyd (the Arabic name of Lod, a city now in Israel) is about a 5,000-year-old bustling Palestinian town that was taken over when Israel was established in 1948. An exploration of what it once was, and what ...

Directed by Kim A Snyder • Documentary • 2020 • 86 minutes

From Kim A. Snyder, director of the Peabody Award-winning documentary Newtown, comes an insightful, rousing coming-of-age story of a generation of youth leaders determined to take the reins and fight for justice at a most critical time i...

Directed by Paul Carlin • Documentary • With John Berger, Sebastiao Salgado • 2001 • 52 minutes

Over the past 30 years Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado's work has won every major award for excellence. More importantly, his photographs have had an actual impact on the world and how it is ...

Directed by Alexandra Shiva • Documentary • 2018 • 91 minutes

From acclaimed filmmaker Alexandra Shiva comes the urgent and beautiful story of a community of Syrian immigrants who are resettled in Baltimore in the US. Upon their arrival, they have eight months to find jobs, learn English, and be...

Directed by Martha Shane & Lana Wilson • Documentary • 2014 • 88 minutes

Since the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in May 2009, there are only four American doctors left who openly provide third-trimester abortions. AFTER TILLER paints a complex, compassionate portrait of these phys...

Directed by Mohamed Jabaly • Documentary • 2016 • 78 minutes

Mohamed, 24, aspires to make films in Gaza City, despite the lack of water, electricity, and closed borders that are part of every ‘normal’ day under the 7-year Israeli blockade of Gaza. While many young people dream of leaving Gaza, M...

Directed by Stefano Obino • Documentary • 2023 • 49 minutes

Iraqi Kurdistan. The last war against ISIS left 1.6 million people in need, half of them under the age of 18. One year after the harsh conflict against ISIS, the scars remain. Yet, life persists, gradually returning to a semblance of no...

Directed by Alexander Abaturov • Documentary • 2022 • 70 minutes

In 2013, filmmaker Alexander Abaturov cousin Dima Ilukhin was killed during a Russian Special Forces (Spetsnaz) operation in the Republic of Dagestan. He was 21. The fighter who shot him in the head and was himself subsequently kil...

Directed by Abdallah Al-Khatib • Documentary • 2021 • 89 minutes

The district of Yarmouk (Damascus, Syria) sheltered the biggest Palestinian refugee camp in the world from 1957 to 2018.

When the Syrian revolution broke out, the regime of Bashar Al-Assad saw Yarmouk as a refuge of rebels and ...

Directed by Monika Borgmann and Lokman Slim • Documentary • 2016 • 103 minutes

Amidst the popular uprising in Syria that begin in 2011, a group of former Lebanese detainees of the Assad regime decides to break their long-held silence about the horrific years they spent imprisoned in Tadmor (Palm...

Directed by Obie Benz • Documentary • With Ed Asner • 1982 • 29 minutes

[ 01/03/2026: Forgive us for feeling it's déjà vu all over again! So, maybe it's a good time to revisit this Oscar-nominated doc from the 80s? ]

AMERICAS IN TRANSITION provides a concise and fast-paced history of the volat...

Directed by Arto Halonen • Documentary • 2016 • 70 minutes

This is the story of Lauri, and through him the story of other victims of both school bullying and a separate childhood trauma: victims full of white rage, which may lead to school shootings and other extreme acts of violence. The film i...

Directed by Judy Jackson • Documentary • 2023 • 64 minutes

WHERE CAN WE LIVE IN PEACE? investigates the migrant crisis through the eyes of Pastor Ignacio Martinez, the founder of ABBA safehouse in Celaya, Mexico. Here, thousands of migrants receive help.

The idea for ABBA began when Ignacio and...

Directed by Mary Sue Connolly • Documentary • With Breanne McUlty, Kelly Beazley • 2019 • 76 minutes

The troubling turmoil of the deadly American opioid crisis unfolds in the small rural town of Petersburg, West Virginia, the state hardest hit by this epidemic. Through interviews with former dru...

Directed by Romed Wyder • Documentary • 2018 • 52 minutes

The birth of the modern state of Israel was far from inevitable. As AND THERE WAS ISRAEL compellingly shows, when it comes to Israel and Palestine, the current crisis is rooted choices made in response to 19th century geopolitics, colonia...

Directed by Mohamed Jabaly • Documentary • 2020 • 22 minutes

Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly’s 2020 short film follows the interactions with friends and family back home in Gaza while living in exile in Northern Norway, not being able to return. Jabaly’s first award-winning feature Ambulanc...