‘70: Remembering a Revolution Alex DeVerteuil & Elizabeth Topp 2011, 114 min., Color, Trinidad & Tobago How did a handful of students change the course of history in Trinidad and Tobago? Between February and April 1970, the streets of Port of Spain were filled with young Black men and women chanting ‘Po...
The Absent Stone Sandra Rozental & Jesse Lerner 2013, 82 min., Color, Mexico In 1964, a colossal pre-Hispanic monolith was taken from the town of San Miguel Coatlinchan in the state of Mexico and brought to the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Since then, the ab...
After 9.11: New Politics & the Left Call To Media Action Producer: Third World Newsreel 2002, 35 min., Color, US Political theorists Tariq Ali (Editor, New Left Review) and Manning Marable (Black Radical Congress) meet at the 20th Socialist Conference in New York to analyze the state of the Left in the post 9.11...
Autonomy Atkilt Geleta 2013, 26 min., Color, Nicaragua Since the colonial period, the Atlantic Coast has been mired in conflict due to incursions by the Spanish Crown, the Nicaraguan government and the United States. Today, huge waves of mestizo migration...
Between the Cup and the Election Monique Mbeka Phoba & Guy Kabeya Muya 2008, 56 min., Color/BW, DRC/Belgium Inspired by the 2006 elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formery Zaire, a group of film students sets out to make a film. With the help of veteran filmmakers Monique Mbeka Phoba and Guy...
Boston Draft Resistance Group a.k.a. BDRG (Newsreel #7) Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 1968, 18 min., BW, US A profile of a grassroots anti-war group in Boston, this short film documents some of the tactics and activities used by draft resistance groups across the country during the Vietnam War. Using the l...
BRAZ (Brigada Rafael Arce Zablah) Sistema Radio Venceremos Producer: El Salvador Media Project 1984, 35 min., Color, El Salvador A portrait of the FMLN's Rafael Arce Zablah Brigade (BRAZ), the rebel army, and its development in the context of Salvadoran history.
Made in El Salvador by Sistema Radios Venceremos, this film was...
Chicago Convention Challenge (Newsreel #17) Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 1968, 17 min., BW, US Using footage taken in the midst of demonstrations during the Democratic National Convention of 1968, this film conveys the immediacy of anti-war organizing in meeting rooms, at rallies and in the str...
The Chinatown Files Amy Chen 2001, 57 min., Color, US This documentary brings to the public, for the first time, a story that was classified as secret by the US government for over four decades. Exploring the roots and legacy of the Cold War on the Chine...
Chircales Marta Rodríguez & Jorge Silva 1971, 42 min., BW, Colombia This film portrays the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia, documenting the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers....
Closer to the Dream (Long Version) Guetty Felin & Hervé Cohen 2008, 102 min., Color, US An electoral road movie about Barack Obama and the movement that united Americans across party, racial and ethnic lines. In 2008 Haitian-American filmmaker Guetty Felin, her husband, French filmmaker ...
Closer to the Dream (Short Version) Hervé Cohen & Guetty Felin 2008, 54 min., Color, US An electoral road move about Barack Obama and the movement that united Americans across party, racial and ethnic lines. In 2008 Haitian-American filmmaker Guetty Felin, her husband, French filmmaker H...
Comrades Edward Wong 1999, 26 min., Color, US COMRADES is a personal documentary essay about two men who took part in the violent socialist struggles of the mid-20th century, only to face resistance and disillusionment. The producer's father, Yoo...
Cry of the Forest, The Alejandro Noza, Nicolás Ipamo, Iván Sanjinés Producer: CEFREC/CAIB 2008, 94 min., Color, Bolivia Bolivia’s first indigenous feature film, THE CRY OF THE FOREST is based on true events that led to the indigenous demonstrations of 1990 and 1996, two events that changed the political history of Boli...
Fixing the World (Arreglando el Mundo) Pablo Arribas 2020, Color, Chile In October 2019, after decades of Pinochet’s dictatorship and more decades of democracy under a Military and Neoliberal Constitution, a popular movement of ordinary Chileans was about to prevail over...
For a Better Life CEFREC/CAIB Producer: CEFREC CAIB 2008, 55 min., Color, Bolivia With exclusive footage, this film documents the drafting of the 2009 Bolivian constitution, and the long history of indigenous activism that led to this revolutionary movement for ethnic and linguisti...
Forward Ever: The Killing of a Revolution Bruce Paddington Producer: Bruce Paddington & Luke Paddington 2013, 113 min., Color, Trinidad & Tobago The invasion of Grenada by US forces in 1983 echoed around the world and put an end to a unique experiment in Caribbean politics. What were the circumstances that led to this extraordinary chain of ev...
Four Days in May: Kingston 2010 Deanne M. Bell, Deborah A. Thomas & Junior “Gabu” Wedderburn Producer: Deanne M. Bell, Deborah A. Thomas & Junior “Gabu” Wedderburn 2018, 41 min., Color/BW, Jamaica In 2010 Jamaican military and police forces declared a state of emergency in West Kingston to apprehend Christopher “Dudus” Coke—who had been ordered for extradition to the U.S. At least 75 civilians ...
Gideon's Army Dawn Porter Producer: Julie Goldman 2013, 95 min., Color, US GIDEON’S ARMY follows the personal stories of Travis Williams, Brandy Alexander and June Hardwick, three young public defenders who are part of a small group of idealistic lawyers in the Deep South ch...
Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America Eduardo López & Peter Getzels Producer: Wendy Thompson-Marquez 2012, 90 min., Color, US At a time of heated and divisive debate over immigration, HARVEST OF EMPIRE examines the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we ...
In the Absence of Peace Michael T. Martin Producer: Martin/Shepard Production 1988, 54 min., Color, US/Nicaragua "In the past, the workers did not have all the possibilities we have now, despite the war waged against us."
This documentary explores the human and social costs of the continuing military and pol...
In the Name of our Coca Leaves a.k.a. In the Name of our Coca Humberto Claros & Albino Pinto Producer: CEFREC/CAIB 2004, 45 min., Color, Bolivia In the midst of the historical conflict between indigenous coca growers in Chapare and the Bolivian military, Joselo Coca must chose between his military career and his family’s survival.
TWN is p...
Living Along the Fenceline Lina Hoshino & Gwyn Kirk Producer: Lina Hoshino, Gwyn Kirk & Deborah Lee 2012, 65 min., Color, US LIVING ALONG THE FENCELINE tells the stories of seven grassroots women leaders from across the Pacific to Puerto Rico whose communities are affected by the U.S. military presence in their backyards. A...
Lockdown, USA Michael Skolnik & Rebecca Chaiklin 2006, 84 min., Color, US In 1973, New York State enacted the Rockefeller Drug Laws, which are the harshest drug control measures ever passed in any democratic nation. President Reagan declared the National “War on Drugs” in 1...
Nuyorican Básquet Julio César Torres González & Ricardo Olivero Lora Producer: Freddie Marrero 2017, Color, Puerto Rico Nuyorican Básquet chronicles the dramatic story of the Puerto Rican national basketball team’s participation in the 1979 Pan American Games.
Boasting a totally unique approach to the game, the Puer...
Promised Land Yoruba Richen Producer: Yoruba Richen 2010, 57 min., Color, South Africa/US Though apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994, economic injustices between blacks and whites remain unresolved. As revealed in Yoruba Richen’s incisive PROMISED LAND, the most potentially explosive i...
Race Against Prime Time David Shulman 1985, 60 min., Color, US An award winning documentary about TV news and racial conflict in Miami.
In 1980, Arthur McDuffie, an African American community worker was brutally kicked, beaten and clubbed to death by Miami po...
Salty Dog Blues Al Santana & Denise B Santiago 2012, 52 min., Color/BW, US SALTY DOG BLUES features a group of men and women of color who served in the United States Merchant Marine from 1937 – 1989. This nine-year project examines their development as a multi-racial and int...
Student Movement in Indonesia: 15 Years Later Tino Saroengallo 2013, 93 min., Color, Indonesia In May 1998, the student movement in Indonesia, a popular movement denouncing the collapse of the Indonesian economy and demanding the end of President Suharto's authoritarian regime, accomplished the...
The Throwaways Bhawin Suchak & Ira McKinley Producer: Bhawin Suchak & Ira McKinley, Executive Producer: Sam Pollard 2014, 62 min., Color, US THE THROWAWAYS is a personal exploration of the devastating impact of police brutality and mass incarceration on the black community told through the eyes of formerly incarcerated activist Ira McKinle...
Tunisian Women: We Will Stand Up Hajer Ben Nasr 2013, 56 min., Color, Tunisia On December 18, 2010 Tunisians of all ages took the streets of Tunis to demand better living conditions and the end of President Ben Ali's repressive dictatorship, starting what would become the 2011 ...
Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela Thomas Allen Harris Producer: Thomas Allen Harris 2005, 73 min., Color, US In the wake of his stepfather’s death, Thomas Allen Harris embarks on a journey of reconciliation with the man who raised him as a son but whom he could never call "father." As part of the first wave ...
Venezuela Bolivariana: People and the Struggle of the Fourth World War Marcelo Andrade Arreaza 2004, 76 min., Color, Venezuela From the Caracazo riots in 1989 to the popular re-election of Hugo Chavez, this film examines Chavez's presidency as it relates to the worldwide movement against neoliberalism and globalization....
Vest Made of Money Patricio Luna Producer: CEFREC/CAIB 1998, 25 min., Color, Bolivia In this Aymara folktale about greed and betrayal, Satuco sells his possessions and hides the cash in his vest. In the process, he turns his back on his wife and his community.
Confronting the sign...
Vieques: An Endless Battle Juan C Dávila 2016, 68 min., Color, Puerto Rico For more than sixty years the United States Navy used the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, to test military weaponry and to train soldiers. Decades of opposition from the local community and internatio...
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