Women have always sought ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies, despite powerful patriarchal structures and systems working against them. This film provides a historical overview of how church, state and the medical establishment have determined policies concerning abortion. From this cross-cultural survey--filmed in Ireland, Japan, Thailand, Peru, Colombia, and Canada--emerges one reality: only a small percentage of the world's women has access to safe, legal operations.

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

The Real Story of Fake Democracy. Filmed over three years in five countries, FREEDOM FOR THE WOLF i...

This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United St...

This fascinating political look at a little-known chapter in women's history tells the story of "Jan...

Join Dance Moms stars, Kendall Vertes, Chloe Lukasiak, and Kalani Hilliker as they perform on The Ir...

Narrated by Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons, The Genius of George Boole assembles academics and ind...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...

Filmmaker Judith Helfand turns the camera on herself to document her battle with cancer caused by DE...

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...

A short documentary exploring the ways LGBT couples show affection, and how small interactions like ...

By mid-1945, Hitler is dead and the war has ended in Europe. Halfway around the world, however, the ...

A basketball team born out of an egg, in a hockey-crazed city, playing in a baseball stadium, fights...

Documenting the shared trajectory between Canada’s rise as a global basketball powerhouse and the ci...
Street art, creativity and revolution collide in this beautifully shot film about art’s ability to c...

Two thousand Canadians suffered the longest incarceration anywhere in the Second World War, a bitter...

Hot Docs will commemorate Canada's 150th anniversary of Confederation with the commissioning of In t...

The true story of the rise of a Japanese businessman from Los Angeles named Eishy Hayata from an Air...
One Saturday morning, filmmaker Madison Thomas has a revelation: she’s just like her mother. As she...
Yagorihwanirats, a Mohawk child from Kahnawake Mohawk Territory in Quebec, attends a unique and spec...

La Salsa Vive is a vibrant cinematic exploration of Afro-Cuban music's history, tracing its roots fr...