#Bars4Justice a.k.a. Bars4Justice Queen Muhammad Ali & Hakeem Khaaliq Producer: Nation19 Magazine (a Mobile Regime brand) 2015, 9 min., Color, US On the one year anniversary of Mike Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri, a benefit concert in commemoration of his life was organized by Hip-Hop and civil rights activists Common, Talib Kweli, Immorta...
amBUSHed Jared Katsiane 1992, 12 min., BW, US This beautifully shot film depicts the brutal and daily occurance of police violence. AMBUSHED uses experimental narrative techniques to delve into the life and consciousness of two generations of Afr...
Arizona : Resisting SB 1070 Immigration Law Producer: NDLON, NDWA & Puente Movement 2011, 60 min., Color, US These four videos document the impact of SB 1070 and other immigration policies on the lives of immigrant families in Arizona, and the growing national efforts to end these violations of human and civ...
Catonsville Nine (Newsreel #18) Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 15 min., BW, US Filmed in Baltimore during the support demonstrations for the nine catholics who were on trial for napalming the 1-A Draft files in Catonsville, Maryland. The film examines some relationships between ...
Corrections Ashley Hunt 2001, 59 min., Color, US CORRECTIONS is a documentary about private prisons. A story of justice turned to profit, it presents the new investors in the "war on crime": venture capital and for-profit prisons. With the highest i...
Daughters of Mother India Vibha Bakshi Producer: Vibha Bakshi & Maryann De Leo 2013, 45 min., Color, India DAUGHTERS OF MOTHER INDIA reveals the aftermath of the horrific rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi in December 2012. For weeks, mass protests filled the streets of India and the...
Deported Rachèle Magloire & Chantal Regnault 2012, 72 min., Color, Haiti DEPORTED follows members of a unique group of men in Haiti: criminal deportees from North America. Since 1996, the United States has implemented a policy of repatriation of all foreign residents who h...
Dreams Inside and Out Sylvie Thouard 1990, 52 min., Color, US The Family, a repertory theater company composed of former inmates and actors, and born in the aftermath of the 1971 Attica uprising, is well-known for Miguel Piñero's play SHORT EYES, winner of the B...
Enemy Alien Konrad Aderer 2011, 82 min., Color, US ENEMY ALIEN is the gripping story of the fight to free Farouk Abdel-Muhti, a Palestinian-born human rights activist detained in a post-9/11 sweep of Muslim immigrants. Told through the eyes of the fil...
Farouk Abdel Muthi: Political Prisoner Konrad Aderer 2003, 9 min., Color, US The late Farouk Abdel-Muhti was born in Ramallah, Palestine in 1947. His mother died when Israeli Occupation forces refused to let his family through a checkpoint to reach a hospital. He came to the U...
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...
I Won't Drown On That Levee and You Ain't Gonna Break My Back Ashley Hunt Producer: The Corrections Documentary Project 2006, 30 min., Color, US I WON'T DROWN... began with an invitation to travel to New Orleans as part of a delegation to investigate what actually happened at the Orleans Parish Prison during and after Hurricane Katrina. What c...
In the Event Anyone Disappears Allan Siegel Producer: Third World Newsreel 1974, 25 min., Color, US This documentary examines conditions faced by US prisoners in the early 70s, conditions that have remained virtually unchanged until today. Shot inside men's maximum-security prisons in Trenton and Ra...
Inside Women Inside Christine Choy & Cynthia Maurizio Producer: Third World Newsreel 1978, 21 min., Color, US This film exposes the daily humiliation regularly faced by women in U.S. prisons using firsthand accounts of inmates at the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women and the Correctional Institute ...
Jails, Hospitals, and Hip Hop Mark Benjamin & Danny Hoch 2000, 90 min., US From the mind of Brooklyn actor, performance artist and Hip-Hop activist Danny Hoch, this film spins out the stories of ten lives shocked by global Hip-Hop, the prison system and life in general. Movi...
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...
Lockdowns Up Ashley Hunt Producer: Third World Newsreel 2001, 8 min., Color, US A frightening look at the potentials that privatized prisons see for their industry following the policy shifts after September 11th. A corporate conference call from one of the leading correctional ...
The Nation Erupts Black Planet Productions Producer: Deep Dish TV, Black Planet Productions 1992, 60 min., Color, US Focusing on nationwide responses in the wake of the Rodney King verdict. Grassroots producers across the country reflect on the media coverage of the resulting L.A. uprising and its aftermath. Communi...
Photos of Angie Alan Domínguez Producer: Alan Domínguez, David Domínguez & Jennifer Warren 2011, 55 min., Color, US In 2008, 18 year-old, Mexican-American Angie Zapata was found dead in her small apartment in Greely, Colorado. The media quickly reported that she was a typical teenager – she loved using her cell pho...
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...
Resistance at Tule Lake Konrad Aderer Producer: Michelle Chen 2017, 78 min., US The dominant narrative of the World War II incarceration of Japanese-Americans has been that they behaved as a “model minority,” that they cooperated without protest and proved their patriotism by enl...
The Survivor’s Project: Voices from the Inside-Out! Cabral Larc Trotman 2007, 45 min., Color, Canada THE SURVIVOR'S PROJECT: VOICES FROM THE INSIDE OUT! explores the traumatic impact and implications of gun violence on young people, and young black men in particular, living in low-income, racialized ...
Teach Our Children Christine Choy & Susan Robeson Producer: Third World Newsreel 1972, 35 min., BW, US This film focuses on the historic 1971 Attica prison rebellion in upstate New York. It targets the conditions that caused prisoners to take drastic steps toward securing their basic rights. The film...
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...
To Love, Honor & Obey Christine Choy & Marlene Dann Producer: Third World Newsreel 1980, 55 min., Color, US This film explores the social, psychological and cultural factors that contribute to violence against women regardless of ethnicity or economic background. Survivors, safe house administrators, counse...
Trans Lives Matter! Justice for Islan Nettles Seyi Adebanjo 2013, 7 min., Color, US TRANS LIVES MATTER! JUSTICE FOR ISLAN NETTLES is a powerful and moving document of a community vigil for Islan Nettles, a Transgender Womyn of Color who was beaten to death in front of a New York Poli...
Waiting for Mercy: The Case against Mohammed Hossain and Yassin Aref Ellie Bernstein Producer: Tony Grocki 2009, 68 min., Color, US Were these two Muslim men who had no prior criminal history set-up to appear as criminals or were they possible terrorists?
This documentary tells the story of a fictitious FBI plot in Albany New...
We Demand Freedom Allan Siegel Producer: Third World Newsreel 1974, 55 min., Color, US This film traces the development of prison philosophy; how prisons have been used historically and their function today. From the period of the slave trade through the mid-70s, this film shows how the...
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