Law & Civil Rights

https://vimeo.com/513616057
ADVOCATE
Lea Tsemel, an Israeli-Jewish lawyer who has represented Palestinian political prisoners for nearly 50 years, pushes the praxis of a human rights defender to its limits
https://vimeo.com/503613941
ALL THAT I AM
The story of an extraordinarily courageous young woman on a path to recovery
https://vimeo.com/359359993
ALWAYS IN SEASON
After 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging in North Carolina in 2014, his mother’s search for justice and reconciliation begins - centuries of trauma and lynching bleed into the present
https://vimeo.com/73748800
AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY
The life of Chinese-American civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs
https://vimeo.com/259970632
AND THEN THEY CAME FOR US
Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII and the demise of civil liberties
https://vimeo.com/501063429
BUILDING THE AMERICAN DREAM
Follow immigrant families rising up to seek justice in a construction industry rife with exploitation.
https://vimeo.com/74592497
CALIFORNIA STATE OF MIND
The Legacy of Pat Brown
https://vimeo.com/87819432
CESAR’S LAST FAST
Cesar Chavez, a historic fast and the fight for farmworkers rights
https://vimeo.com/293427422
CRIME + PUNISHMENT
Unprecedented examination of the United States' most powerful police department
https://vimeo.com/500961120
CURED
Meet the LGBTQ activists who refused to accept psychiatry's mental illness label - and changed history
https://vimeo.com/209298158
DALYA'S OTHER COUNTRY
A Syrian teen attempts to balance her new life in L.A. while maintaining her Islamic traditions
https://vimeo.com/334762755
DECADE OF FIRE
The South Bronx is burning. Stay, fight, build.
https://vimeo.com/112190350
EVOLUTION OF A CRIMINAL
One Black man's journey from straight-A student to bank robber — and back
https://vimeo.com/252436998
EXILED
Two military veterans, both green card immigrants willing to die for America, get deported
https://vimeo.com/275941924
FATHER'S KINGDOM
He changed the course of civil rights in this country and you never heard his name
https://vimeo.com/445318942
FIRST VOTE
Asian American voters in battleground states
https://vimeo.com/390097098
HUNGRY TO LEARN
THE HIGHEST COST OF COLLEGE MIGHT BE YOUR HEALTH
https://vimeo.com/170077110
LUPE UNDER THE SUN
A portrait of migrant farmworkers grappling with the faultlines of the American Dream
https://vimeo.com/184405671
MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART
25 years after Miguel died of AIDS, his niece tracks down his estranged lover and cracks open a Pandora’s box of unresolved family drama
https://vimeo.com/521158051
MISSING IN BROOKS COUNTY
AN INTIMATE LOOK AT THE MIGRANT DEATH CRISIS IN A SMALL TEXAS TOWN
https://vimeo.com/388044398
NO MÁS BEBÉS
Mexican-American women fighting for justice after being sterilized against their will
https://vimeo.com/235430953
OUT OF STATE
Native men return to Hawaii after their cultural reawakening at a private prison in the Arizona desert
https://vimeo.com/456695427
PUSH
landlords without faces. Apartments without renters. A documentary exploring the new, unlivable city.
https://vimeo.com/442488146
RAISE YOUR VOICE
These aren’t just kids practicing their first amendment rights, they are living them
https://vimeo.com/365127668
SINGING OUR WAY TO FREEDOM
Musician Ramon “Chunky” Sanchez - from humble beginnings as a California farmworker to receiving the Library of Congress highest musical honors
https://vimeo.com/204435006
SOLITARY
A daring exploration of one of America's most notorious supermax prisons
https://vimeo.com/451931144
THE CONDOR & THE EAGLE
Bringing to light the interconnected nature of social and environmental issues
https://vimeo.com/283361065
THE CORRIDOR
Inside the nation’s first high school inside an adult jail
https://vimeo.com/412933976
THE FIRST RAINBOW COALITION
In a city determined to keep them apart, they dared to unite.
https://vimeo.com/270559689
THE PUSHOUTS
People call them "Dropouts." They tell a different story.
https://vimeo.com/359846051
THE SILENCE OF OTHERS
A reckoning for justice and forgetting
https://vimeo.com/296521464
THE UNAFRAID
They are undocumented. They are unapologetic. They are THE UNAFRAID.
https://vimeo.com/310435279
TIME FOR ILHAN
One woman’s quest to become the first Somali Muslim lawmaker in the United States.
https://vimeo.com/514426044
TWO GODS
the story of a Muslim casket maker who teaches two young men how to live better lives
https://vimeo.com/210684465
TYRUS
His art inspired Bambi, his life will inspire you
https://vimeo.com/390097400
UNSETTLED: Seeking Refuge in America
LGBT refugees and asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East fleeing persecution to seek better and safer lives in the U.S.
https://vimeo.com/301097219
WARRIOR WOMEN
Mothers and daughters fighting for indigenous rights in the American Indian Movement
https://vimeo.com/302731458
WE EXIST: Beyond the Binary
What if the world told you that you don’t exist?
https://vimeo.com/433816418
WHILE I BREATHE, I HOPE
what it means to be young, Black, and Democrat in the American South