“The Apology” investigates an incident in the 1960s in which Alameda County and the City of Hayward…
Human Rights Spotlight
Sponsored by William A. Kerr Foundation with support from Sigma Iota Rho Honor Society and Global Studies at Washington University
A selection of documentaries focused on human rights issues in the U.S. and the world.
Directed by Rebecca Landsberry-Baker (Muscogee Creek), Joe Peeler
When the Muscogee Nation government abruptly repeals its landmark Free Press Act to muzzle the tribe…
Directed by Eric D Seals
An African-American filmmaker explores health disparities within the Black community through the…
Directed by Monique N. Matthews
America’s medical inequities have turned giving birth into a battlefield for too many Black women…
Directed by Markie Hancock
"Bloodlines of the Slave Trade" examines the lives of two people whose only connection is a genetic…
Directed by Arthur Musah
At America's elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students as they strive to graduate and…
Directed by Shay Fogelman
“Budapest Diaries” documents the final year of World War II and the Holocaust of the Jews in…
Healthcare. Foster care. Criminal justice. Local government. Corruption can be found at any level of…
"This land is your land, this land is my land - But what about the indigenous" In reality, this land…
Breaking through all the bad faith talking points, the propaganda, and the misinformation, these…
Directed by Lois Lipman
“First We Bombed New Mexico" follows the intimate journey of indomitable Hispanic cancer survivor…
Directed by Barbara Kopple
“Gumbo Coalition” follows two visionary Civil Rights leaders, Marc Morial and Janet Murguía, as they…
Directed by Elaine Sheldon
A lyrical tapestry of a place and people, “King Coal” meditates on the complex history and future of…
Directed by Rosa Ruth Boesten
George Anthony Morton is a classical painter who spent 10 years in federal prison for dealing drugs…
Directed by Changjun Lee
Youngsoon defected from North Korea in 2007. Her husband killed himself and her eldest son is in…
From bodily autonomy to ability issues, this slate challenges our perceptions about our bodies and…
Directed by Elan Golod
At the end of World War II, Nathan Hilu, an 18-year-old Jewish U.S. Army private from New York, was…
Directed by Kaoru Ishibashi, Justin Taylor Smith
In “Omoiyari: A Song Film by Kishi Bashi,” internationally acclaimed composer and songwriter K…
Directed by Jennifer Takaki
For 50 years, Chinese-American photographer Corky Lee tirelessly documented Asian Pacific Americans…
Directed by Tracy Droz Tragos
A determined group of blue state advocates, midwives and doctors have been networking to increase…
Directed by Sara Newens, Mina T. Son
Was the planting of tamarisk trees along the historically Black Lawrence Crossley neighborhood in…
Directed by Katja Esson
Miami is ground-zero for sea-level-rise. When residents of the Liberty Square public-housing…
Directed by Hideaki Ito
In 2001, 85,000 baby teeth were discovered in Missouri, collected 50 years earlier in a study on the…
Directed by Claudia Ymi Sanchez
Transwomen face more difficulties in Latin America than in any other part of the world. In most of…
Directed by Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene, Rob Grobman
“We Are Guardians” follows Indigenous forest guardian Marçal Guajajara and activist Puyr Tembé as…
Directed by Waad al-Kateab
“We Dare to Dream” is the story of refugee athletes from Iran, Syria, South Sudan and Cameroon who…
Directed by Michael Warren Wilson
In 1919, Black workers’ decades-long efforts to challenge exploitation in the Arkansas Delta…
