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...
Street art, creativity and revolution collide in this beautifully shot film about art’s ability to c...
Yagorihwanirats, a Mohawk child from Kahnawake Mohawk Territory in Quebec, attends a unique and spec...
One Saturday morning, filmmaker Madison Thomas has a revelation: she’s just like her mother. As she...

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

Women are being jailed, physically violated and at risk of dying as a radical movement tightens its ...

Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continui...

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...

By mid-1945, Hitler is dead and the war has ended in Europe. Halfway around the world, however, the ...
French documentary campaigning for the liberalization of abortion and contraception, directed by Cha...

At a public hospital in Nicaragua, Ob/Gyn Dr. Carla Cerrato must choose between following a law that...

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

What is peace? What is coexistence? And what are the basis for them? PEACE is a visual-essay-like ob...

Canadian director Catherine Annau's debut work is a documentary about the legacy of Pierre Trudeau, ...

A journey into the unique, often bizarre, world of Japanese cat culture. Cat themed cafes, bars, tem...

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

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

A short documentary exploring the ways LGBT couples show affection, and how small interactions like ...
Documentary about two boys and a girl who travel to surfing spots around the world.