Detention of immigrant children in a former medium-security prison in Texas in 2007-8 leads to controversy when three activist attorneys discover troubling conditions at the facility. This compelling documentary film explores the role – and limits – of community activism, and considers how American rights and values apply to the least powerful among us. Since the film's release, activists Bob Libal, Barbara Hines, Vanita Gupta and Michelle Brane' have remained on the front lines of the continuing battles against injustice and child detention.
When an extraordinary new resident – Balakrishna, an Indian elephant – arrived in the town of East R...
After the insurrection erupted in Libya in the spring of 2012, more than a million people flocked to...
Brussels, Béguinage church. Migrants organize a hunger strike to obtain papers. A man dies. Tunisia...
Three generations of the Nabi family flee their home in Aleppo and try to make it to safety in Germa...
Three arrested and detained undocumented immigrants must navigate the system to fight impending depo...
A decade after taking a series of photographs of skinhead members of a far-right group for his book ...
Documentary that shows the changing attitude towards immigrant labor in The Netherlands. The documen...
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
A powerful set of stories of “righteous persons” taking action along the U.S.-Mexico border, motivat...
When a young woman is shot by an undocumented immigrant on Pier 14 in San Francisco, the incident ig...
With the help of hidden camera, Danish TV 2 documents how a known Danish imam teaches Muslim women a...
Europe, the rule of law and host countries? Look elsewhere denounces what is happening in many Europ...
A documentary from 1987 featuring the life of early Chinese immigrants to the island of Newfoundland...
A group of children living on the streets of Athens. Among them is Sayid, a twelve-year-old boy, who...
Eight women on the margins of Israeli society are thrown together during the course of a school year...
“Jews of the Wild West” is a feature-length documentary completed in December 2021. The independent ...
When an Arizona resident is charged with three felony counts and faces a 20-year prison sentence for...
Filmmaker Arturo Perez Torres follows in the footsteps of two friends traveling on an extraordinary ...
Rosine Mbakam is invited to step in Sabine’s small hairdresser’s because it is dangerous in the stre...
In 1892, Ellis Island, in New York Bay, became the main gateway to the United States for immigrants ...