Private Violence explores a simple, but deeply disturbing fact of American life: the most dangerous place for a woman in America is her own home. Every day in the US, at least four women are murdered by abusive (and often, ex) partners. The knee-jerk response is to ask: ‘why doesn’t she just leave?’
Private Violence shatters the brutality of this logic. Through the eyes of two survivors – Deanna Walters, a mother...
Featuring Pele, Zico, Gilberto Silva and Beberto.
Dario, Pedro, Vinicius, Alexandre, Rodrigo and Mauricio all have three things in common; They´ve all lived and worked on the streets, they´ve all lived in an orphanage and now they are all training for a football tournament to represent Brazil against other street children from all over the world.
The Brazil boys all come from the Crianca não é da rua project...
During the student demonstrations in Chile, a group of High-School students break in to one of the most emblematic schools of the capital city, the Darío Salas high school, and occupy it for six months.
The camera is locked in with them as this group of idealistic young protesters take on the authorities in a battle to draw attention to their governments brutally destructive new education policies.
Barricaded...
This controversial coming-of-age documentary set in the remote South African bush follows a group of Afrikaner boys at military camp. However, what starts out as basic training, fitness & camaraderie intensifies as darker ideological elements emerge.
With full access to the inside workings of a lobby group struggling to represent the centre ground of Jewish American thought, this documentary tracks J Street as it attempts to change what it means to be pro-Israel in America.
Murder is the leading cause of work related deaths for journalists as censorship increases worldwide. In addition to those killed, dozens have been attacked, kidnapped, or forced into exile due to their coverage of crime & corruption.
Following the horrors of World War II, there was a strong desire for a better world in which peace would be maintained and human rights respected - the U.N was born. Now, more than 60 years later, the image of the UN has become severely tarnished.
Controversial to its core, this hard-hitting anti-Western propaganda film, looks at the influence of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world from a North Korean perspective.
Sidney Rittenberg arrived in China as a GI at the end of World War II. Discharged there, he joined the Communist Party, and was an active participant in the Communist revolution & its aftermath, including the Cultural Revolution, Great Leap Forward & Hundred Flowers Campaign.
Covering online gaming addiction & sexting to social media narcissism & communication, DSKNECTD surveys the changes to the digital landscape that have profoundly altered the way we interact.
A Whisper to a Roar presents the inspiring and dangerous work of democracy activists in five countries around the world - Egypt, Malaysia, Ukraine, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
Red Reign uncovers the systematic murder of the Falun Gong, the underground trade in their harvested organs and the work of courageous doctors, politicians & lawyers around the world in bringing this sickening injustice to light.