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Film/Video

  1. Abortion: Stories from North and South
    First Published: 1984
  2. The Above
    Field of Vision
    First Published: 2015
    In Kirsten Johnson’s The Above a U.S. military surveillance balloon floats on a tether high above Kabul, Afghanistan. Its capacities are both highly classified and deeply mysterious.
  3. The Act of Killing
    First Published: 2012
    A film is about the individuals who participated in the Indonesian killings of 1965–66.
  4. After the Last River
    First Published: 2015
    Vicki Lean has crafted a stunning documentary about the community of Attwapiskat and its stories of risistance, following the impact that diamond mining and decades of government underfunding have had on the environment and the community.
  5. Alice in Migraland
    First Published: 2013
    The story of how undocumented students organized creatively and strategically and got the Federal Government to grant them legal status.
  6. Alive in the Nuclear Age
    First Published: 1990
    An anthology of a dozen short programs, available on two 75-minute videotapes, dealing with nuclear fears, nuclear technology, and the arms race.
  7. Alternative Energy
    First Published: 1984
  8. America: From Freedom to Fascism
    First Published: 2006
    An attack on the erosion of civil liberties in the United States.
  9. American Autumn: An Occudoc
    First Published: 2012
    Shot on the front lines and meeting spaces of the Occupy movement in NYC, Boston, and Washington, DC from the earliest days through the end of January 2012, American Autumn: an Occudoc is an inside looking out view of the occupy movement.
  10. American Commune
    Sisters Rena and Nadine return to The Farm, the legendary hippie commune in Tennessee where they were raised, to tell the story of their alternative family and the rise and fall of America's largest utopian socialist experiment.
  11. American Revolutionary 
    The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
    First Published: 2014
    A documentary about the ideas and activism of 98-year-old Grace Lee Boggs, covering her lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century; from labour to civil rights, to Black Power, feminism, the Asian American and environmental justice movements and beyond. Boggs’s constantly evolving strategy -- her willingness to re-evaluate and change tactics in relation to the world shifting around her -- drives the story forward.
  12. Anti-Capitalist Demonstration of May 1, 2013 in Montreal
    Journée des Travailleurs et Travailleuses: Manifestation Anti-Capitaliste
    First Published: 2013
    Montreal 2013: police state. Montreal's municipal goverment passes a bylaw that suspends the right of citizens to assemble unless they have received advance permission from police. Citizens who assert their right to assembly are kettled by police and arrested.
  13. Armed on Our Own Ground
    First Published: 1977
    The slide-tape show focuses on South Africa; the recent student demonstrations, workers' strikes and events leading up to it.
  14. Aroma protest: Toronto: Bloor & Albany. September 2010
    First Published: 2010
    Aroma Espresso Bar is part of an Israeli-owned chain. One of Aroma's branches is in Ma'aleh Adumim, a large Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories. Anti-apartheid activists have called for a boycott of Aroma as part of a larger movement by Palestinian civil society to find non-violent means to end the occupation and apartheid.
  15. Aroma protest: Toronto: Eaton Centre. December 2011
    First Published: 2011
    Aroma Espresso Bar is part of an Israeli-owned chain. One of Aroma's branches is in Ma'aleh Adumim, a large Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories. Anti-apartheid activists have called for a boycott of Aroma as part of a larger movement by Palestinian civil society to find non-violent means to end the occupation and apartheid.
  16. Arundhati Roy on Obama's Wars, India and Why Democracy Is "The Biggest Scam in the World"
    First Published: 2010
    Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy on President Obama, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, India and Kashmir and much more. Roy also talks about her journey deep into the forests of central India to report on the Maoist insurgency.
  17. Ask a Silly Question
    First Published: 2012
    An inquiry into the polling and market industry. Through bogus street polls, we see how frequently people are willing to give opinions on subject matter they know nothing about.
  18. Avenge But One of My Two Eyes
    First Published: 2006
    Israeli director Avi Mograbi documents what he calls the "culture of death" in the psychology of Israel the occupier.
  19. Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock
    First Published: 2017
    Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock captures the story of Native-led defiance that forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet.
  20. Banking on South Africa
    First Published: 1977
    A film about Canadian banks making loans to the apartheid government of South Africa.
  21. Battered and Blamed
    First Published: 1983
  22. Battle for Brooklyn
    First Published: 2011
    Battel for Brooklyn is an intimate look at the very public and passionate fight waged by residents and business owners of Brooklyn’s historic Prospect Heights neighborhood facing condemnation of their property to make way for the polarizing Atlantic Yards project, a massive plan to build 16 skyscrapers and a basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets.
  23. The Battle of Beech Hall
    First Published: 1982
  24. The Battle of Chile
    Chile, Obstinate Memory
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1979
    The Battle of Chile is a documentary film directed by the Chilean Patricio Guzman, in three parts: The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie (1975), The Coup d'état (1976), Popular Power (1979). It is a chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. It won the Grand Prix in 1975 and 1976 at the Grenoble International Film Festival.
  25. The Battle of Chile
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1979
    On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende's democratically-elected Chilean government was overthrown in a bloody coup by General Augusto Pinochet's army. Patricio Guzman and five colleagues had been filming the political developments in Chile. THE BATTLE OF CHILE, an epic chronicle of that country's open and peaceful socialist revolution, and of the violent counter-revolution against it.
  26. Battleship Potemkin (film)
    First Published: 1925
    A 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, which presents a dramatized version of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers of the Tsarist regime.
  27. Be a Good Boy Now
    This audio-visual is a documentary-type look at the story of the immigration of a Jamaican boy to Toronto, Ontario.
  28. Belfast's International Wall becomes the Palestinian Wall
    First Published: 2024
    In a defiant show of solidarity with the people of Palestine a group of mural artists led by internationally renowned artist Danny Devenny has transformed Belfast's iconic International Wall into the Palestinian Wall to show off amazing murals designed by Palestinian artists who would have suffered imprisonment, torture and death had they attempted to paint them in their homeland.
  29. The Betrayal
    First Published: 2011
    The filmmaker's personal journey to confront her past, baring her soul to those most hurt by her troubled youth when she ricocheted from far-left radicalism to neo-Nazi fascism out of a desperate need to belong.
  30. Between the Lines
    First Published: 1984
  31. Beyond The Image: A Guide to films about Women and Change
    First Published: 1986
  32. Big Boys Gone Bananas!* 
    First Published: 2011
    First there was a film about banana workers saying the Dole Food Company had made them infertile. Then Dole attacked the filmmakers. Now it's time for a new film!
  33. Bikes vs Cars
    First Published: 2015
    Bikes vs Cars is a documentary about the bike and what an amazing tool for change it can be. It highlights a conflict in city planning between bikes, cars and a growing reliance on fossil fuels.
  34. The Billionaires' Tea Party 
    First Published: 2010
    Both a journey through a unique moment in American history and a thoroughly researched piece of investigative journalism. Through an examination of astroturfing and disinformation, we see how citizen democracy has been captured by powerful corporate interests that threatens not only the heath of American democracy, but that of its citizens and the planet as a whole.
  35. Birdie
    First Published: 2015
    Birdie, who sleeps in trees and sells fruits and vegetables on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, loves the two abandoned dogs he now lives with. In Heloisa Passos' film, Birdie reads the minds of his two best canine friends.
  36. Bleecker Street
    First Published: 1982
  37. Bleeker Street
    First Published: 1977
    Documentary of the efforts of the residents of Bleeker St. to save their homes.
  38. Blue Gold: World Water Wars 
    First Published: 2008
    A documentary, based on the book Blue Gold, by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, which examines environmental and political implications of the planet's dwindling water supply, and posits that wars in the future will be fought over water. The film also highlights some success stories of water activists around the world and makes a strong case for community action.
  39. Booker's Place
    A Mississippi Story
    First Published: 2012
    In 1965, African-American waiter Booker Wright spoke out in a television documentary, outraging many white Southerners and resulting in his murder. Years later, the filmmaker's son returns to examine the repercussions of the interview on Wright's family and the community as a whole.
  40. Born in Gaza
    First Published: 2014
    Born in Gaza provides an intimate, deep look of how violence transforms the lives of ten children in Gaza.
  41. Bread and Roses 
    First Published: 2000
  42. Breaking the Silence
    Israeli Soldiers talk about Hebron
    First Published: 2005
  43. Breaking The Silence: Truth And Lies In The War On Terror
    First Published: 2003
    'Breaking The Silence: Truth And Lies In The War On Terror' was screened six months after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and two years after the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001. The film dissects the truth and lies behind the 'War on Terror', investigating the discrepancies between American and British justification for 'war' and the facts on the ground in Afghanistan and Washington DC.
  44. Brief History of Israel-Palestine Conflict
    Teach-In on Gaza, Israel, and Hamas
    First Published: 2023
  45. Broken Circle
    First Published: 2011
    A two-part excerpt from Theodore Fontaine's book Broken Circle, a memoir of surviving the Fort Alexander Indian Residential School in Manitoba -- and pursuing his own path to healing.
  46. Budrus
    First Published: 2009
    A documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel's Separation Barrier.
  47. Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country
    Anders Ostergaard's award-winning documentary assembles footage smuggled out of Burma/Myanmar by an underground journalist group known as Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB). The film explores how DVB members regularly put their lives at risk to reveal the realities of living under a brutal military occupation despite the government crackdown on free media and internet.
  48. Bus Driver
    First Published: 2009
    Follows Karnel Basi, a public transit driver in South Vancouver, along his regular route through the downtown east side to the heart of the city and back again. Along the way he picks up a variety of passengers, struggles to stay on schedule and keep his bus safe.
  49. Call Me Kuchu
    First Published: 2012
    In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.
  50. Canned Dreams
    First Published: 2012
    A simple can of ravioli propels this spectacular 30,000-kilometre, eight-country journey through all phases of food production and the far flung sources of international ingredients.
  51. Captain Planet
    First Published: 1992
  52. Cheshire, Ohio
    An American coal story in 3 acts
    First Published: 2016   Published: 2017
    Follows a community devastated by coal, starting with American Electric Power's buyout and bulldozing of this Ohio River town, after exposing them to years of harmful emissions.
  53. Chomsky on mass media
    First Published: 1990
  54. The Coming War On China
    First Published: 2016
    The Coming War on China, is a warning that nuclear war is not only imaginable, but a ‘contingency’, says the Pentagon. The greatest build-up of Nato military forces since the Second World War is under way on the western borders of Russia. On the other side of the world, the rise of China as the world’s second economic power is viewed in Washington as another ‘threat’ to American dominance.
  55. Communities at Risk
    Hazards of LNG
    First Published: 2016
    The proposed LNG Terminals and Tanker Routes for BC put coastal communities at risk. Know the Hazards of LNG Transportation and advocate for the adoption of the SIGTTO safety standards.
  56. Concerned Aboriginal Women occupy Department of Indian Affairs
    First Published: 1982
    A film depicting the occupation of the Department of Indian Affairs building in Vancouver by a group of Native women in 1981.
  57. Concerned Aboriginal Women occupy Department of Indian Affairs
    First Published: 1983
    A film depicting the occupation of the Department of Indian Affairs building in Vancouver by a group of Native women in 1981.
  58. The Conspiracy or How the Transnationals Do It
    First Published: 1978
  59. Containment
    First Published: 2015
    Containment is a thoughful observational essay filmed in Fukushima, weapons plants nuclear storage facilities and deep underground exploring the present and future challenges of nuclear wast storage.
  60. Control Room
    First Published: 2004
    Shows the coverage of the 2003 Iraqi war from the perspective of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet.
  61. Conversations with Lee Lorch
    First Published: 2013
    Interviews with mathematician and civil rights activist Lee Lorch.
  62. The Convict Patient
    After defying one of his country's most oppressive regimes, a man's disproportionate punishment leaves him mentally ill and homeless in Mexico City in this shocking film on how far a government will go to suppress dissention.
  63. The Corporation 
    First Published: 2004
    The Corporation explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time.
  64. Coughing up coal
    First Published: 2014
    India is rivaling China -- in its plans to consume coal. India is aggressively expanding construction of coal fired power plants to meet growing energy needs. Emissions from coal power plants were linked to 80,000 - 150,000 premature deaths in India between 2011 and 2012 alone and to a wide range of diseases from cancers, to respiratory and cardiovascular disorders. Singrauli -- an industrial hub in north central India -- embodies the tragic human toll that a largely unregulated coal industry can extract.
  65. CRAC-PC: take the arms and the destiny of our lives in Guerrero, Mexico
    First Published: 2017
    A documentary on the CRAC-PC (Regional Coordinator of Communitary Authorities - Communitarian Police), a police force of community volunteers elected by regional assemblies, operating in the Guerrero state in Mexico.
  66. Crayons of Askalan
    First Published: 2011
    In 1975, at the age of fifteen, Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adaw is sentenced and confined in the high security prison of Askalan, Israel for fifteen years. With the help of his fellow prisoners and their families, he manages to stay alive by smuggling in colour crayons and smuggling out his allegorical artwork done on pillowcases, so it finds its way to the outside world.
  67. Crime, Prison and Alternatives
    First Published: 1978
  68. Daughter of the Lake
    First Published: 2015
    Follow the powerful journey of Nelida a young Andean woman able to communicate with the spirits of the water. Nelida's fight takes her from the frontlines of resistance against gold mining in her village, to law school in Lima in efforts to save her community in the court system.
  69. Dear Child
    Full Short Film
    First Published: 2024
  70. Dear John
    First Published: 2009
    Chronicles the closure of the Welland Canal, Ontario's oldest and leading industrial employer: John Deere Welland Works. The film explores what Welland has in store for its future, while helping those that worked at the plant tell their story.
  71. Deep Web
    First Published: 2015
    A documentary that explores the history and context of the world that these darkened online areas burgeoned from. Focusing on the recent court case of the alleged founder of the online market Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, it's a far more complex and multifaceted story than the media portrays. Deep Web investigates the greater implications for how we will all experience the internet in the future.
  72. Detropia
    First Published: 2012
    A documentary on the city of Detroit and its woes, which are emblematic of the collapse of the U.S. manufacturing base.
  73. The Devil Operation 
    A tale of corporate espionage unfolds in this exposé of torture, intimidation, and murder of Peruvian eco-activists and indigenous farmers. Shocking video footage, horrifying photos, and meticulous reports compiled by private security firms working for U.S. and British-owned gold mines are co-opted by the filmmakers to reveal the truth.
  74. Dialogue on racism
    First Published: 1990
  75. Digitising the ANC Archives
    First Published: 2012
    This video tells the story of the digitisation of the archives of the African National Congress. This was a talk given by David Larsen at the International Liberation Archives Conference held at the ICC in East London, South Africa from October 31 to November 2, 2012. The theme of the conference was "Archives Deepening Democracy." South Africa
  76. Dignity of the Nobodies 
    La dignidad de los nadies
    First Published: 2005
    The degraded socio-economic condition of Argentina leading to the December 2001 rebellions, and its consequent social chaos analyzed by focusing on real people from Buenos Aires' poorest shantytowns, crumbling hospitals, and women middle class farmers fighting multi-national banks that are shamelessly appropriating their farmlands.
  77. Disobedience
    The rise of the global fossil fuel resistance
    First Published: 2016
    Disobedience is a film about a new phase of the climate movement: courageous action that is being taken on the front lines of the climate crisis on every continent, led by regular people fed up with the power and pollution of the fossil fuel industry.
  78. Disputed Territory 
    The green economy versus community-based economies
    First Published: 2012
    A story of the peoples of the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil, looking at what happens when so-called "green economy" projects move into the area, clearning the forest, and taking over the land.
  79. Doctors with Borders
    First Published: 2005
    The story of four foreign trained doctors who are struggling to become licensed to practise medicine in Ontario.
  80. Dolores
    First Published: 2017
    Dolores is a 2017 documentary directed by Peter Bratt on the life of activist Dolores Huerta. The film focuses on Huerta's work to organize farmworkers in California to form the United Farm Workers (UFW), in alliance with such movements as the Chicano Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, LGBTQ social movements, and the late 20th century Women's rights movement.
  81. Don't Agonize, Organize
    First Published: 1983
    This is a manual for "grass-roots organizing." One section of the manual gives a full outline of important factors to consider in developing strategy and tactics for successful organizing -- setting goals, identifying constituencies, deciding on tactics, developing work plans, etc.
  82. Down on the Farm
    First Published: 1976
    Four days in the life of National Farmers' Union organizer, Don Kossick.
  83. Down on the Farm
    First Published: 1983
  84. Downside Adjustments
    First Published: 1983
  85. Dr. Makdisi on a One State Solution
    First Published: 2007
    A video clip featuring Dr. Saree Makdisi presenting the case for a one-state solution in Israel-Palestine - a democratic secular state.
  86. Drone
    First Published: 2014
    This documentary covers diverse and integral ground from the recruitment of young pilots at gaming conventions and the re-definition of "going to war", to the moral stance of engineers behind the technology, the world leaders giving the secret "green light" to engage in the biggest targeted killing program in history, and the people willing to stand up against the violations of civil liberties and fight for transparency, accountability and justice.
  87. Drought
    First Published: 2011
    As a result of the persistent drought, an entire community prepares for an inevitable exodus from their homeland in northern Mexico.
  88. Ecosocialism: Why greens must be red and reds must be green 
    First Published: 2014
    Ian Angus argues for a movement based on socialist and ecological principles, to save humanity and the rest of nature from capitalist ecocide.
  89. The End of Suburbia
    Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
    First Published: 2004
    Documentary about the Peak Oil theory and its implications for the America way of life.
  90. The Enemy Within
    First Published: 2014
    In 1984, a conservative government under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared war on Britain's unions, including the National Union of Mineworkers. The government began to close coal mines, threatening the industry, whole communities and a way of life. When 160,000 coal miners stood up for what they believed in, they began the longest strike in British history, the 1984-85 Minter's Strike.
  91. Energy
    Who Wins? Who Loses?
    First Published: 1977
    This video tape compares two energy conferences held in Edmonton in November 1976: the Seventh Annual Conference on Energy and Northern Development, and the Citizens Counter-Conference.
  92. Espoir Voyage
    First Published: 2012
    Like many young men of his country, Joanny travelled from Burkina Faso to the more affluent Ivory Coast in search of work and a better life. For many young Burkinabe men this emigration is a ritual and rite of passage — but Joanny never returned. Years later his brother, Burkinabe filmmaker Michel K. Zongo, decides to retrace his steps.
  93. Everybody Dreams
    First Published: 1976
    Study of an immigrant family's life as homesteaders in P.E.I. and its opposition to encroaching corporate demands.
  94. The E-Waste Tragedy
    First Published: 2014
    The E-Waste Tragedy takes the viewer on a journey to Europe, China, Africa and the US, revealing a toxic global trade of electronic waste that makes its way illegally into lower income countries, destroying landscapes and endangering lives.
  95. Fall of Eagles: Lenin and Trotsky in London
    First Published: 1974
  96. Family Violence: Cycle of Fear
    First Published: 1983
  97. Favela Rising
    First Published: 2006
    The story of Anderson Sa, and his quest to create a non-violent cultural movement known as Afro-reggae.
  98. The Field of Magic
    First Published: 2011
    Field of Magic is a docu-poem about people living for over two decades in Buda forest near the closed down Kariotiške.s dump, 40 km from Vilnius, Lithuania. A result of four year’s work, the film captures the perspective of the dump dwellers in telling the story of a dissolving community, its uniqueness, daily rhythm, peculiar way of life, every-day joys and sorrows.
  99. Film Resources: Lutheran Church of America - Canada
    First Published: 1981
    The following resources are available from the Lutheran Church of America - Canada: "Children of Sun, Children of Rain is a 15-minute cassette and colored film-strip about boys and girls in Latin America in a society different than ours; audiences will be helped to understand causes of want in such countries and how we can help; excellent for children and young audiences."
  100. Finding North
    First Published: 2012
    A documentary that investigates incidents of hunger experienced by millions of Americans, and proposed solutions to the problem.
  101. 5 Broken Cameras
    First Published: 2011
    A deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank whose lands are being systematically seized to make room for illegal Israeli settlements. Structured around the violent destruction of each one of Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat's cameras, the low-cost film documents Bil'in's weekly protests against land seizures by Israeli forces and Jewish settlers. Neighbors are killed in the protests and demolition equipment mars the landscape while the filmmaker captures his infant son's rapid loss of innocence, heralded by his first words: "wall" and "army."
  102. 5 Errors Made by Public Heath/ Science During The Pandemic
    A Doctor Reflects
    First Published: 2021
  103. Follow the Dirt Road
    An Introduction to Intential Communities in the 1990s
    Portrays the successes and struggles of communal life in the United States in the 1990s.
  104. Food Chains
    First Published: 2014
    In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm labourers in the United States.
  105. For a Better World
    First Published: 1992
    Television program produced and hosted by World Federalist Cec Muldrew (1992).
  106. Forget It Jack
    First Published: 1974
    Film documenting the reasons for a strike at the Norfolk General Hospital in Simcoe, Ontario.
  107. Four Winters
    A story of Jewish partisan resistance and bravery in World War II.
  108. Fracking Hell
    The environmental costs of the new US gas drilling boom
    First Published: 2014
    The gas stored in the Marcellus Shale formation is the subject of desperate drilling to secure US domestic energy supplies. But the process involved - hydraulic fracturing - is the focus of a bitter dispute over environmental damage and community rights.
  109. Fractured Land
    First Published: 2015
    In Fractured Land, we follow Caleb Behn, a young Dene lawyer who may become one of this generation's great leaders, if he can discover how to reconcile the fractures within himself, his community and the world around him, blending modern tools of the law with ancient wisdom.
  110. Fractured Land
    First Published: 2015
    A Canadian feature documentary film profiling the Dene activist Caleb Behn as he goes through law school and builds a movement around greater awareness of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on First Nations lands.
  111. Freak Out
    First Published: 2014
    This qirky and fascinating documentary employs interviews, animation, archiwal footage and reenactment to reveal the untold story of the origins of the counter-culture movement that started over 100 years ago with a group of radical thinkers in Monte Verita in Switzerland.
  112. Free Bleecker
    First Published: 1974
    A documentary on the "redevelopment" of the South St. Jamestown neighbourhood in Toronto.
  113. Free Public Transit
    First Published: 2015
    This video focuses on accessibility when it comes to public transit in Tallinn, Estonia and how transit issues intersect with social justice issues.
  114. From The Other Side
    First Published: 2003
    The border between the United States and Mexico is the backdrop for Chantal Akerman's look into tightening immigration policies. Technology has limited illegal immigration into San Diego, diverting it to the Arizona border. Akerman jumps back and forth from the Mexican city of Agua Prieta to Douglas, Ariz., to demonstrate the harrowing journey some hopeful immigrants make. Many of these travelers never arrive, and Akerman speaks with their families as well as with American authorities.
  115. From the Other Side
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2012
    For years immigrants passed through San Diego, but cutting-edge technologies have helped stem the flow of illegal immigration there. This leaves only the mountains and deserts of Arizona for those desperate enough to try their luck. And it is here that Akerman shifts her focus, between Agua Prieta, Sonora, and Douglas, Arizona, and the desert in between.

    by: Icarus Films
  116. Fuck for Forest
    Fuck for Forest want you to get horny, get naked and save the world, selling self-produced erotica online to benefit the environment. But the transition from fund-raisers to activists tests the resolve and motives of these wide-eyed idealists.
  117. The Future of Food
    First Published: 2004
    Explores the radical changes in our diet and our food in the last half century.
  118. G-Dog
    First Published: 2012
    Unlikely gang expert Jesuit Father Boyle, known as G-Dog, creates Homeboy Industries, leading former gang involved youth to become a positive force in their communities.
  119. Gary Webb at the 2003 School of Authentic Journalism
    First Published: 2003   Published: 2014
    Gary Webb (1955-2004), the investigative journalist who reported cocaine trafficking by the CIA in 1996, is portrayed in the motion picture, Kill the Messenger, by Jeremy Renner. He was a founding professor of the School of Authentic Journalism and an editor at Narco News. This video was made by students and professors of the video workgroup at the 2003 School of Authentic Journalism in Isla Mujeres, Mexico, chaired by professor Stephen Marshall of the Guerrilla News Network.
  120. Gary Webb "It Was Outrageous But It Was True"
    First Published: 2003   Published: 2014
    Part one in a series featuring Gary Webb in his own words. The interview was conducted and filmed by the Guerrilla News Network, scholars, and professors at the 2003 School of Authentic Journalism.
  121. Gatekeeper
    First Published: 2016
    In 2015, there were 24.025 documented suicides in Japan. A retired police detective dedicates his life to preventing deaths at Japan's suicide cliffs, providing emergency assistance and counseling even as tourists flock to the site, attracted by its notoriety as a popular suicide destination.
  122. GaybleVision
    First Published: 1986
  123. Gayblevision (Gay TV)
    First Published: 1981
  124. Gaza Calling
    First Published: 2013
    For over six years, two Palestinian families are split between the West Bank and Gaza; mothers and sons are forbidden from travelling the one-hour road that separates them. Witness the personal cost of Israel's illegal occupation.
  125. Gaza Fights for Freedom
    First Published: 2019
    Filmed during the height of the Great March Of Return protests, it features exclusive footage of demonstrations where 200 unarmed civilians have been killed by Israeli snipers since March 30, 2018.
  126. "Gaza is a graveyard," sing joyful Israeli youths
    First Published: 2014
    This video shows an Israeli mob actually singing in celebration of children’s deaths in the style of a soccer fans’ song: “In Gaza there’s no studying, No children are left there, Olé, olé, olé-olé-olé.”
  127. Gazonto
    First Published: 2014
    What would Israel's attack on Gaza in 2014 look like if it took place in Toronto?
  128. Global Wealth Inequality, Illustrated
    First Published: 2013
    A video for those who think capitalism is the way to end poverty.
  129. God Loves Uganda
    Uganda has become a battleground between human rights groups and the American Evangelical movement, which uses money and fabrications to promote anti-homosexuality laws, many of which carry mandatory death sentences and create a modern theocracy.
  130. Good Day Care
    First Published: 1978
  131. The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It
    Men who took the unpopular position of pacifism in the face of World War II.
  132. Grassy Narrows
    First Published: 1983
  133. The Grave Of An Unknown Salvadoran Soldier
    First Published: 1982
  134. The Great Canadian Tax Dodge
    First Published: 2015
    It is estimated that between 100 and 170 billion dollars leaves Canada every year, untaxed. Much of it is siphoned off to Canadian-made offshore tax havens. "The Great Canadian Tax Dodge" documents the birth of the Canadian Tax Fairness movement and examines the issue of tax avoidance, exposing the sophisticated corporate strategies and tax loopholes commonly used to legally avoid tax.
  135. Guideposts for a Sustainable Future
    Tools for Environmental Recovery - videotape
    First Published: 1990
  136. The Hand That Feeds
    First Published: 2015
    A documentary portraying 12 undocumented immigrants who face an uphill battle and the threat of deportation when they take on the popular restaurant in New York City where they work.
  137. Hands Across Polluted Waters
    First Published: 1975
    Chronicle of the visit or representatives from White Dog and Grassy Narrows Reserves to Minimata and Niigaata in Japan.
  138. Hedy Epstein Speaks at UC Berkeley
    First Published: 2010
    Hedy Epstein, a survivor of the Holocaust at the age of fifteen, describes her experiences during the Holocaust and how they made her committed to fighting injustice for the rest of her life. She describes how the situation on the ground in Palestine today very much resembles the situation in Nazi Germany in 1939, and compares the egregious violations of human rights that are taking place, as a result of the Israeli occupation, in Palestine today to the Holocaust.
  139. Herbicide Trials
    First Published: 1986
  140. Herman's House
    First Published: 2012
    'What kind of house does a man who has been imprisoned in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?' This film captures the remarkable creative journey and friendship of Herman Wallace, one of the Angola 3, and artist Jackie Sumell while examining the injustice of prolonged solitary confinement.
  141. HERstory: Jeritan
    First Published: 2009
    A story of Indonesian female migrant workers who left their homes to work as domestic helpers in Macao, China, a community consisting of mainly Chinese as well as a city of casinos and entertainment parlours.
  142. Hold the Line
    First Published: 2009
    A restrained story-telling of the 2009 CUPE strike in Windsor, Ontario. Excellent shots of Windsor backed by a moody soundtrack, this film tells the story of the Windsor CUPE strike from the workers' point of view.
  143. How Israel Abuses Africans
    First Published: 2012
    Part 2 of 3 - interview with community activist Rami Gudovitch about state-sponsored Israeli racism towards non-Jewish Africah asylum-seekers.
  144. How to Start a Revolution
    First Published: 2011
    A documentary on the work and ideas of Gene Sharp, a theorist of non-violent revolution.
  145. Human Rights videotapes
    First Published: 1992
    5 videotapes for use at senior elementary or secondary levels or for adult audiences.
  146. I AM NOT MOVING
    Short Film - Occupy Wall Street
    First Published: 2011
    A message to the people that find themselves in a position to be part of the government that is representing the people. Do you want to be like all the other oppressive states around the world oppressing the freedoms and speech of the people
  147. I Am Not Your Negro
    First Published: 2017
    I am Not your Negro explores the history of racism in the United States through James Baldwin's reminiscences of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr, as well as his personal observations of American history.
  148. I, Daniel Blake
    First Published: 2016
    I, Daniel Blake is a 2016 drama film directed by Ken Loach and written by Loach's frequent collaborator Paul Laverty. It stars Dave Johns as Daniel Blake, who is denied employment and support allowance despite his doctor finding him unfit to work. Hayley Squires co-stars as Katie, a struggling single mother whom Daniel befriends.
  149. I Remember Too
    First Published: 1977
    Three Chilean children's stories about the "old country".
  150. 'I want my legs back': the child amputees of Gaza's war
    The child amputees of Gaza's war
    First Published: 2023
    The horrific impact of Israel's genocidal attack on Gaza on the children of Gaza.
  151. I Was Born Here
    First Published: 1976
    An old Dene Indian reflects on his land, his people and his values.
  152. I Was Born Here
    First Published: 1977
    An old Dene of the Mackenzie District, N.W.T., reflects on his land, his People, his values.
  153. Ice
    First Published: 1970
    An underground revolutionary group wages guerilla warfare against a fictionalized fascist regime.
  154. In Ale Gasn - Revolutionary Yiddish Anthem
    A Yiddish song about the political struggles of Jewish socialists, communists, and anarchists, in Russia and Poland in the latter part of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. It opposes the Russian ruling class and, especially, Russia's police. Performed by the Workmen's Circle chorus.
  155. In Grave Danger of Falling Food
    First Published: 1989
    An introduction to of permaculture: an approach to land management and philosophy that adapts to natural ecosystems. Originally produced for Australian TV.
  156. In Memoriam
    Activist Poet Dennis Brutus
    This National Public Radion (NPR) report on the death of Dennis Brutus includes a 13-minute interview with Brutus originally broadcast on April 22, 1986. United States
  157. In the Shadow of the Revolution
    First Published: 2017
    In the Shadow of the Revolution provides alternative perspectives on Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution. Through interviews with academics, journalists and socal activists the film helps explain the rebellion against the corrupt authoritarian government that created a catastrophe in Venezuela.
  158. An Injury to One
    First Published: 2002
    Documentarian Travis Wilkerson reconstructs the story of his hometown of Butte, Montana. After a brief period as a gold rush town, Butte comes of age during the 1880s, when its vast reserves of copper are discovered by the nascent electricity industry, which is dependent on the mineral. The town's resources are soon monopolized by the Anaconda Mining Company. In 1917, union organizer Frank Little comes to town to organize worker resistance against the business -- which fights back violently.
  159. An Injury to One
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2003
    AN INJURY TO ONE provides a corrective -- and absolutely compelling -- glimpse of a particularly volatile moment in early 20th century American labour history: the rise and fall of Butte, Montana. Specifically, it chronicles the mysterious death of Wobbly organizer Frank Little, a story whose grisly details have taken on a legendary status in the state.
  160. An Injury to One Is An Injury to All: The History of Trade Unionism in South Africa
    The History of Trade Unionism in South Africa
    First Published: 1978
  161. Inocente
    First Published: 2012
    Inocente is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot of the new face of homelessness in America: children.
  162. Inside 15M: 48h with the indignants
    First Published: 2011
  163. Interview - Richard Becker - Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire
    This interview with Richard Becker about his book “Palestine, Israel and the US Empire” is a brief but comprehensive analysis of the conflict in the Middle East.
  164. Investigation of a Flame
    First Published: 2003
    Investigation of a Flame is a 2001 documentary by Lynne Sachs about the Catonsville Nine, nine Catholic activists who became known for their May 17, 1968 nonviolent act of civil disobedience in burning draft files to protest the Vietnam War.
  165. Investigation of a Flame
    A Documentary portrait of the Catonvilles Nine
    First Published: 2001
    INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME is an intimate look at this unlikely, disparate band of resisters - the Catonsville Nine as they came to be known - who broke the law in a poetic act of civil disobedience. The publicity and news coverage from the ensuing trial helped galvanize an increasingly disillusioned American public.

    by: Icarus Films
  166. Invisible Force: Women Workers in Pakistan
    First Published: 2007
    Millions of women workers in Pakistan remain unaccounted for in official figures. Even those who are in the formal workforce face problems like lower wages for the same work as men and sexual harrasment.
  167. The Invisible War
    First Published: 2012
    An investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military.
  168. Iraq for Sale
    The War Profiteers
    First Published: 2006
    A film about what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war which uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so.
  169. The Island President
    First Published: 2011
    Jon Shenk’s The Island President is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced -- the literal survival of his country and everyone in it.
  170. Israeli Apartheid Week: Call it as it is
    First Published: 2012
  171. Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land
    First Published: 2013
    About 60,000 African migrants have arrived in Israel since 2006, fleeing unrest in their home countries. But upon arrival in the ostensibly democratic country, the migrants have faced intense persecution and have been branded as "infiltrators" by right-wing politicians and activists.
  172. Israel's War on Africans
    First Published: 2014
    72-minute slideshow about Israel's treatment of non-Jewish African asylum-seekers, given at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada on March 9, 2014.
  173. Jai Bhim Comrade
    First Published: 2011
    India’s Dalit (oppressed) castes were abhorred as “untouchables”. The film, shot over 14 years follows the music of protest of Maharashtra's Dalits. In an age of increasing bigotry and superstition, it is both a record of recent history as well as eloquent testimony to a tradition that has survived amongst the subaltern for thousands of years.
  174. How the liberal class enabled the election of Donald Trump
    First Published: 2016
    In a filmed interview with Afshin Rattansi, John Pilger describes how the collusion and silence of America's 'enlightened' liberal elite, notably its journalists, helped create President Trump.
  175. John Pilger on Class Vs "Identity"
    First Published: 2016
    Award-winning journalist & film-maker, John Pilger describes the corrosive impact of "identity" politics and the loss of "class" as a tool to understand the world we live in.
  176. John Pilger's speech at Sydney rally to free Julian Assange
    First Published: 2018
    Video by Cathy Vogan & Liam Kesteven (https://www.facebook.com/liam.kesteven), for Politics in the Pub. http://politicsinthepub.org.au
  177. Journey to Justice
    First Published: 2000
    The film examines the history of Canadian discrimination against Black Canadians, and the individuals who refuse to accept inequality by taking racist perpetrators and institutions to court, and the civil rights challenges of it. The film has a runtime of 47 mins.
  178. Just Another Cog in the Machine
    First Published: 2009
    Using wordplay & a photocopier to promote starting a union.
  179. Justice for All?
    First Published: 2009
    An informative short on how Legal Aid fails low-income workers in BC.
  180. Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
    First Published: 1993
    A crucial 1993 film looking at the 1990 standoff in Oka, Quebec. Obomsawin's goal is to explain the perspective of the Mohawk community involved in the conflict.
  181. Keep the TTC public
    First Published: 2011
    Privatization of public transit around the world has been a disaster for taxpayers and riders. In this video, we learn of some of these disasters and why Toronto should avoid TTC public-private partnerships. Narrated by Canadian actor Eric Peterson.
  182. Killing Gaza
    A documentary film about life under siege
    First Published: 2018
    Independent journalists Max Blumenthal and Dan Cohen documented Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza during the war, and chronicled its horrific aftermath. As they waded through the rubble of Gaza’s destroyed border regions, they turned a camera onto the survivors of the slaughter and let them speak for themselves. Dan returned, week after week, to capture on film the daily struggles of the people of Gaza as they suffered through one of the worst winters in recorded history, and then weathered the sweltering summer heat without electricity and -- in many cases -- without homes. While giving voice to the pain of a people under siege, Cohen and Blumenthal also highlighted Gazans’ inspiring acts of creative resistance, from painting to break-dancing to literature, that allow them maintain their humanity in the face of deprivation and war. Yet this film is much more than a documentary about Palestinian resilience and suffering. It is a chilling visual document of war crimes committed by the Israeli military, featuring direct testimony and evidence from the survivors.
  183. Kiss the Ground
    First Published: 2020
    Delving into the impact of regenerating the Earth's soil quality and its impact on climate, ecosystems, and food sustainability. Featuring environmental activists, scientists, and celebrities.
  184. Land
    The Threatened Resources
    First Published: 1977
    A filmstrip about land use issues in Canada.
  185. Land Grabbing
    First Published: 2015
    Farmland is becoming more and more valuable and scarcer. Every year we lose about 12 billion hectares of farmland through soil sealing. After the financial meltdown in 2008 the global financial capital discovered the business segment of global farmland. Through land grabbing the rich of the world want to secure access to the world’s most important resources. Consequently, instead of farmers, profit is put before soil. If we don’t stop the raids, we will destroy our livelihood.
  186. Last Harvest
    First Published: 2014
    Last Harvest follows the riveting journey of an elderly Chinese farming couple whose relocation is imminent as a result of China's controversial South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the largest of its kind in the world. Wang captures a remarkable and engaging human story at the intersection of connection and disconnection from land and culture and of old and new China.
  187. Let the Fire Burn
    First Published: 2013
    A history of the conflict of the City of Philadelphia and the Black Liberation organization, MOVE, that led to the disastrously violent final confrontation in 1985.
  188. Let the Fire Burn
    Why did Philadelphia police bomb a row house occupied by radical group "MOVE" in 1985? What accused authorities to stand idly by for over an hour before fighting the balze? Using archival material, this film investigates the ultimately tragic conflict.
  189. Life on Our Planet
    First Published: 2020
    David Attenborough shares his predictions for the planet's future, and methods to prevent the worst outcomes.
  190. The Living Seed 
    Part 1 of The Living Farms series
    First Published: 2015
    Testimonies of farmers, seed savers, agronomists and scientists from across India and abroad form the basis for their compelling investigation of GMOs, organic farming and the future of agriculture.
  191. The Lobby: Young Friends of Israel
    First Published: 2017
    In the first of a four-part series, Al Jazeera goes undercover inside the Israel Lobby in Britain. We expose a campaign to infiltrate and influence youth groups, including the National Union of Students, whose president faces a smear campaign coordinated by her own deputy and supported by the Israel Embassy.
  192. Lobbying for Lives
    Lessons from the Front
    First Published: 1989
  193. Long Distance Revolutionary
    A Journal with Mumia Abu-Jamal
    First Published: 2012
    The life and situation of Mumia Abu Jamal.
  194. The Look of Silence
    First Published: 2014
    The Look of Silence (Indonesian: Senyap, "Silence") is a 2014 internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer about the Indonesian killings of 1965–66. The film is a companion piece to Oppenheimer's 2012 documentary The Act of Killing.
  195. Loren Goldner speaks on the current capitalist crisis
    First Published: 2010
    Writer and activist Loren Goldner contextualizes the current economic crisis and class struggles in a theory of capitalist development.
  196. The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
    First Published: 1975
    German original title: Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum. A young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.
  197. Machines
    First Published: 2016
    The documentary captures the hardships and daily life of workers in a large textile factory in Gujarat, India. Director Jain takes the audience to a place of pre-industrial working conditions and dehumanizing labour that ultimately shows the huge divide between the first world and developing countries. Runtime: 75 min.
  198. Mama Illegal
    First Published: 2012
    They gave the smugglers all their money and risk their life on their journey across borders: Three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in Austria and Italy as cleaning women. On top of their hard job they live a life in illegality without documents, far away from their children and family for years.
  199. Manufacturing Consent 
    First Published: 1992
    A film about Noam Chomsky's ideas about the media, ideology, propaganda, and elite control of society's institutions.
  200. Matewan
    First Published: 1987
    A film based on events in Matewan, West Virginia in 1920.
  201. Media Review: Fake News
    First Published: 2017
    Richard Seymour looks at the current debate around 'fake news'. What does the term refer to and is it as new as we think?
  202. The Memory of Justice
    First Published: 1976
    The Memory of Justice is a 1976 documentary film directed by Marcel Ophüls. It explores the subject of atrocities committed in wartime.
  203. Le Mepris N'Aura Qu'un Temps (Hell no Longer)
    First Published: 1969
    A documentary of a construction worker's home life, life on the job, and unemployed.
  204. Merchants of Doubt (film)
    First Published: 2015
    Inspired by the book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, Merchants of Doubt takes audiences on an illuminating ride into the heart of American spin, lifting the curtain on a secretive group of pundits-for-hire who present themselves in the media as scientific authorities - yet have the contrary aim of spreading maximum confusion about well-studied public threats ranging from toxic chemicals to pharmaceuticals to climate change. 1 hr 36 min.
  205. The Messenger
    First Published: 2015
    Documentary. A powerful reflection and intimate investigation that reaches from the northern point of the Boreal Forest to the base of Turkey's Mount Ararat to the urban streets of New York. As songbirds take flight and fight to survive in our changing world, The MESSENGER delivers a visually thrilling ode to the beauty and importance of these imperiled creatures.
  206. Los Mexicanos: The Struggle for Justice of Patricia Perez
    First Published: 2009
    Every year, some 4000 migrant foreign workers coming mostly from Mexico, labour in Quebec farms to plant and pick our vegetables. In the summer of 2006, Patricia Perez a pro-union militant speaking for the UFCW, launches a major drive to organize the workers in several farms south of Montreal.
  207. Mikmaq say Bay of Fundy developments could harm endangered fish
    First Published: 2016
    In Nova Scotia, people are concerned about the impacts of big projects on endangered fish in one of the world’s most famous waterways. Two projects are being considered by the province on the Bay of Fundy. Its high and low tides are also home to a number of fish that are on the endangered species list.
  208. The Miners' Hymns
    First Published: 2010
    The ill-fated coal mining communities in North East England are the subject of this inspired documentary by multi-media artist Bill Morrison.
  209. The Most Dangerous Man in America
    Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
    In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a leading Vietnam War strategist, concludes that America’s role in the war is based on decades of lies. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to The New York Times, a daring act of conscience.
  210. Moving Target
    First Published: 2016
    Ruby rides in the backseat of an armoured car while a bodyguard rides shotgun. As a human rights advocate working in Colombia, she speaks out onbehalf of victims of the long-running conflict between government paramilitaries and FARC guerrillas, and dedicates her life to justice despite having to live in fear.
  211. My Freedom, Your Freedom
    First Published: 2012
    Knowing nothing but drugs and violence since childhood, Kuebra and Salema have spent their adult years in and out of a Berlin prison, their experiences calling into question the effectiveness of incarceration.
  212. A New Way to Solve Problems: Do It Like Zidane
    First Published: 2006
    A short video illustrating how to deal with conflict using the Zidane method.
  213. No Fixed Address
    First Published: 1978
  214. No Land No Food No Life
    First Published: 2013
    A film which explores sustainable small scale agriculture and the urgent call for an end to corporate global land grabs. This feature length documentary gives voice to those directly affected by combining personal stories, and vérite footage of communities fighting to retain control of their land.
  215. Norman Finkelstein and Dr. Mads Gilbert
    First Published: 2018
    A discussion with professor and author Norman Finkelstein about his book "Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom".
  216. Northland
    First Published: 2007
    A touching look back at the director's father, Albert Steiner, and his life as a miner. Detailing his death, caused by working in the mine and the reality of getting compensation from mining companies at that time.
  217. Nostalgia de la luz (Nostalgia for the Light) 
    First Published: 2010
    In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers search the sky and explore the origins of the universe. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones murdered and dumped in the desert by the Pinochet dictatorship. The desert also holds the stories of pre-Columbian indigenous societies, 19th-century miners, and political prisoners. A meditation on astronomy, the past, memory, and persistence.
  218. Not a Carwash
    First Published: 2012
    In the Albanian capital of Tirana, students, professors, activists and film lovers take to the streets when authorities attempt to redevelop the property of the city's only art house theatre for profit. The changing face of post-communist Albania is the backdrop for this classic battle between art, commerce, artistic passion and government indifference.
  219. The Occupation of the American Mind
    Israel's Public Relations War in the United States
    First Published: 2016
    An eye-opening look at pro-Israel public relations efforts within the U.S. Narrated by Roger Waters and featuring leading observers of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the film explores how the Israeli government, the U.S. government, and the pro-Israel lobby have joined forces, often with very different motives, to shape American media coverage of the conflict in Israel's favour.
  220. Occupy: The Movie
    When Zuccotti Park became the epicentre of a global movement, the world took notice. But what comes next? Uncovering the crusade's genesis, Occupy: The Movie captures America's most daring social movement since the civil rights era.
  221. On the day Yafa's refugees return
    First Published: 2011
    A video prepared especially for the exhibition "Towards the Return of Palestinians Refugees" presented at the gallery of Zochrot in September 2011. In the video, filmed in the refugee camp of Balata in Nablus, Yaffa refugees speak of return to the city from which they had been expelled in 1948.
  222. On the Side of the Road
    First Published: 2013
    Filmed over the course of five years, this documentary focuses on the collective Israeli denial about the expulsion and displacement of Palestinians in the wake of the 1948 war for independence.
  223. One Fine Day
    First Published: 2011
    The documentary One Fine Day, shows six people from different cultures and religions who all, through a small nonviolent act, have had a significant and positive influence on society. Director Klaas Bense investigates how frustration can be turned into positive actions. He looks at what one single individual can achieve, and the often severe, personal consequences.
  224. One of the Hollywood Ten
    First Published: 2000
    A Spanish and British bio-picture. The drama focuses on screenwriter/director Herbert Biberman and his efforts to make what would become the historic political film, Salt of the Earth in 1954, produced without studio backing after he was blacklisted for belonging to the American Communist Party.
  225. One Palestinian Man's Mission to Make Urban Agriculture More Sustainable
    First Published: 2017
    Video that introduces Said Salim Abu Naser, a proponent of sustainable agriculture living and working in Gaza City, Palestine, along the Mediterranean Coast.
  226. One River Many Relations
    First Published: 2014
    The Alberta Oil Sands are one of the world's most controversial industrial developments. They are the target of high profile protests and debate around the globe. One essential voice is largely excluded from discourse on the issue - the voice of downstream Indigenous communities.
  227. Oranges and Sunshine
    First Published: 2010
    This Australian drama is based on the true story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker who uncovered the scandal of 'home children', a program which forcibly relocated underprivileged children from the United Kingdom to Australia and Canada.
  228. Ottawa Action Against Tar Sands
    First Published: 2011
    More than 200 people risked arrest on Parliament Hill in the largest climate-related civil disobedience action in Canadian history. The rally and the civil disobedience remained peaceful through the day-long event on the Hill. The main message of the action was to urge Prime Minister Harper to turn away from a destructive tar sands industry and start building a green energy future that promotes climate justice, respects Indigenous rights and prioritizes the health of the environment and communities.
  229. Our Children Our Future
    First Published: 1982
    The film, Our Children Our Future, documents the effects of Provincial child adoption practices on some of Canada's Native Indian Children.
  230. Our Daily Bread
    First Published: 2005
    Our Daily Bread (original German title: Unser taglich Brot) is a 2005 documentary film, depicting how modern food production companies employ technology to produce food on a large scale. It consists mainly of actual working situations without voice-over narration or interviews as the director tries to let viewers form their own opinion on the subject. The names of the companies where the footage was filmed are purposely not shown. The director's goal is to provide a realistic view on the internal workings of multiple food production companies in our modern society.
  231. Our Spirits Don't Speak English
    First Published: 2008
    A documentary film about the Native American boarding schools.
  232. Out of Control
    First Published: 1976
    A film that exposes the Trudeau Anti-Inflation Bill as an attack on Canadian workers.
  233. Painting Red Square
    First Published: 2009
    7000 kilometres from Moscow, there's another Red Square. Witness the struggle of the labour-left in Whitehorse, Yukon to find a friendly watering hole where they can share a glass with their comrades and debate which shade of red is best.
  234. Palestine: Israeli Love Song
    First Published: 2010
    A video response to Israeli propaganda and PR efforts.
  235. Parallel Institute Video-Tapes
    First Published: 1976
    Training tapes designed to teach organizations the practical and political skills of organizing.
  236. Parallel Institute Video-Tapes
    First Published: 1976
    Training tapes to teach poor and working class organizations the basic practical and political skills of organizing.
  237. Peace Out
    First Published: 2011
    Charles Wilkinson explores the costs of damming, fracking, and extracting, and how they implicate every gas tank and light switch in this country.
  238. The People Farm
    First Published: 1976
    A film that provides insight into growth stimulation of handicapped adults.
  239. Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
    First Published: 2007
  240. Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune
    First Published: 2010   Published: 2011
    A documentary film on the life and times of folk singer-songwriter Phil Ochs.
  241. A Picture of Health
    Broadcasting The Health Care Blues
    This program describes the fight of front line workers in the health system for quality health care services and the right to care.
  242. Pig Iron Bob
    First Published: 2015
    On the 75th anniversary of the Dalfram Dispute in Australia, reenactments capture the waterside dispute where 180 men prevented pig iron being loaded onto ships bound for the Japanese war machine.
  243. The Pinochet Case
    First Published: 2001
    Original Title: Le cas Pinochet. True story of the saga that was hoped to be the long-awaited justice brought to bear upon Augosto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990. In September 1998, Pinochet flew to London on a pleasure trip but experienced back pain and underwent an operation in the London Clinic. Upon waking, he was arrested by Scotland Yard. Could it be that this was to become the first Latin American dictator to answer for crimes while serving as Head of State? After 500 days of house arrest, he nevertheless eventually returned unscathed to Chile, despite the compelling case against him .
  244. Plant, Pick & Eat It
    Wenn ein Garten wächst
    First Published: 2014
    A group of neighbours in Kassel, Germany come together to transform a public space into a community garden. The film explores both the positive human impacts of the initiative and the subsequent resistance by the city to allowing the garden to continue.
  245. Plant This Movie
    First Published: 2014
    A documentary which encourages people to use green spaces to grow vegetables instead of grass. The film explores urban gardening in cities including Havana, Shanghai, Calcutta, Addis Ababa, Lima, New York, New Orleans, and London.
  246. Plutocracy
    Political Repression In The U.S.A.
    First Published: 2015
    Income inequality has become a key hot button issue in the modern day political spectrum. While these economic and class divides seem more pronounced than ever before, the impressive new documentary Plutocracy: Political Repression in the USA reveals that the core of these struggles pre-date the beginnings of the industrialized labor force. The long and painful journey towards achieving worker rights and fair wages has been marked by violence, discrimination, and inhumane exploitation.
  247. Politics in the Pub Mark Davis
    First Published: 2019
    The current attempt to use the UK courts to drag Assange into the clutches of a foreign intelligence agency for his revelations is not just an abuse of the extradition process but a fundamental threat to journalism.
  248. Poor No More
    First Published: 2009
    In the present economic crisis, many Canadians are destititute and many others are on the brink. Against this climate, a couple of Canadians go on a road trip to Ireland and Sweden, with comedian Mary Walsh as their guide, and get a chance to see how other countries have helped people like themselves.
  249. La Prenda
    First Published: 2015
    Documentary. Every day, a child is abducted in Guatemala, a country with a rate of impunity of 98%. Female victims and survivors hope to stem the tide of forced emigration from Guatemala, a country where too many women are still seen as "prendas." Also Known As: The Pawn.
  250. Price of Gold
    First Published: 2012
    Mongolia is known for its original Nomad culture as well as the spectacular natural landscape. Since gold deposits have been discovered however, both are threatened.
  251. The Price We Pay 
    First Published: 2014
    This documentary, inspired by Brigitte Alepin's book La Crise fiscale qui vient, shines a light on the dark history and dire present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harbouring profits in offshore havens.
  252. Pride
    First Published: 2014
    Based on a true story, the film depicts a group of lesbian and gay activists who raised money to help families affected by the British miners' strike in 1984, at the outset of what would become the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign.
  253. Primer on a Society to Be Transformed
    First Published: 1978
    This audiovisual is an educational tool to be used in conjunction with the primer on social justice prepared by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.
  254. The Pristine Coast
    First Published: 2014
    Director Renyard has created a devastating account of how fish farms have upset the ecosystem on the West Coast. Styled like an essay, the film argues against unregulated aquaculture industries.
  255. Public Transit Struggles in London and Toronto: P3s, Transit Workers and Alternatives
    First Published: 2015
    Using the fight against transit privatization practices in London, England, Rosenfeld presents a model for reform in Toronto that prioritizes rider concerns such as reduced fares and increased accessibility.
  256. The Question Of War - How Will We Answer Our Children?
    First Published: 1982
    The Question of War is a film about how adults can deal with justice issues with children aged 8 to 12.
  257. The Ramallah Concert
    First Published: 2005   Published: 2006
    This concert by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra took place in August of 2005 in the Palestinian Territory in the city of Ramallah and includes repertoire that Daniel Barenboim is famous for, such as Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin & Viola and the ""Nimrod"" variation from Elgar's ""Enigma Variations."" Also includes a feature-length documentary: ""Knowledge is the Beginning"", which was filmed over a six-year period and tells the story of Barenboim's development of the orchestra through interviews, rehearsal and concert excerpts.
  258. Rape
    First Published: 1978
  259. Reds (film)
    First Published: 1981
    A 1981 film that was co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty. The picture centres on the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book Ten Days That Shook the World.
  260. Requiem For The American Dream
    First Published: 2015
    In his final long-form documentary interview - filmed over four years - Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality. Tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the majority, Chomsky lays bare the costly debris left in its wake: the evisceration of the American worker, disappearance of the living wage, collapse of the dream of home ownership, skyrocketing higher education costs placing betterment beyond reach or shackling students to suffocating debt, and a loss of solidarity that has left us divided against ourselves.
  261. The Rev. Keith Whitney: Interviewed by Nancy Edwards in Toronto
    First Published: 1978
  262. The Revisionaries
    First Published: 2012
    The Revisionaries follows the attempts of a creationist Board of Education member to revise the science and history curricula to better suit a white, Christian nation.
  263. Revolutionary Medicine - A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital
    First Published: 2014
    The story of the building of a hospital in Ciriboya, Honduras -- an authentic, grass-roots, community development project, from the initial community meetings, the organized planning, the community defense committees, to the actual bricks, mortar and staffing. The viewer of Revolutionary Medicine is guided through the process in a series of compelling interviews with doctors, patients and community protagonists.
  264. Revolutionary Optimism: Journeys in Radical Politics Past and Present
    First Published: 2018
    On the "Reality Asserts Itself" program of The RealNews network, Prof. Leo Panitch is interviewed by host Paul Jay. Discussion topics include his political leanings, the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, the UK Labour Party, and whether radical change is indeed possible.
  265. Right to Fight
    First Published: 1982
  266. A Right to Live
    First Published: 1977
    A film that explains what happens to job related accident victims and how injured workers are fighting back.
  267. Rising up strong
    First Published: 1983
  268. Rosa Luxemburg (film) 
    First Published: 1986
    A 1986 West German dramatic film on the life of Rosa Luxemburg.
  269. Sacred Cod
    First Published: 2017
    Sacred Cod is a feature-length documentary that captures the collapse of the historic cod population in New England, delving into the role of overfishing, the impact of climate change, the effect of government policies on fishermen and the fish, and the prospect of a region built on cod having no cod left to fish.
  270. Salvador Allende
    First Published: 2004
    Salvador Allende is a 2004 documentary film about Chilean president Salvador Allende, from his election campaign to the coup d'état which ended his life.
  271. Salvador Allende
    First Published: 2004   Published: 2006
    Patricio Guzmán returns to his native country thirty years after the 1973 military coup that overthrew Chile's Popular Unity government to examine the life of its leader, Salvador Allende, both as a politician and a man.
  272. Save Our Waterfront
    First Published: 2013
    An architect, a doctor, a teacher & mother and a sailor tour Toronto Harbour and discuss the negative impacts the expansion of BIlly Bishop airport would have on the environment.
  273. Saving Face
    First Published: 2011
    Every year in Pakistan, there are at least 100 people attacked with acid -- the majority women. Many more go unreported. This documentary Saving Face is the story of two survivors of such attacks — their battle for justice and their journey of healing. Saving Face follows their personal stories and that of the nation of Pakistan as it attempts to tackle this vexing social problem.
  274. Scarlet Road
    First Published: 2011
    Scarlet Road follows the extraordinary work of Australian sex worker, Rachel Wotton. Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression and the rights of sex workers, she specializes in a long over-looked clientele – people with disability.
  275. School Zone
    First Published: 2008
    Humourous video that explores the benefits and protection the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation has gained for members through advocacy and collective bargaining.
  276. Seeds of Peace
    First Published: 2009
    Jawdat Talousy worked in a Jewish Settlement located on the West Bank. He was fired because he established a labour committee in order to get equal labour rights as Israeli co-workers.
  277. Selma (film)
    First Published: 2014
    A 2014 historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay, based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by James Bevel, Hosea Williams, and Martin Luther King, Jr. of SCLC and John Lewis of SNCC.
  278. Shadow of a Giant
    First Published: 2015
    This documentary focuses on the toxix legacy of arsenic, the final byproduct of the Giant gold mine, which used to feed Yellowknife's economy.
  279. She's Beautiful When She's Angry
    First Published: 2014
    She's Beautiful When She's Angry resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women's movement in the United States from 1966 to 1971. She's Beautiful When She's Angry takes us from the founding of NOW, when ladies wore hats and gloves, to the emergence of more radical factions of women's liberation; from intellectuals like Kate Millett to the street theatrics of WITCH (Women's International Conspiracy from Hell!)
  280. Silkwood 
    First Published: 1983
    A film inspired by the life of Karen Silkwood. Silkwood was a nuclear whistleblower and a labour union activist who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked.
  281. Sir! No Sir!
    First Published: 2005
    A documentary about the anti-war movement within the ranks of the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War.
  282. Sisters in Struggle
    First Published: 1991
    The film introduces us to a group of activists across Canada who are struggling to end systemic discrimination against women, particularly the challenges facing women of colour. Runtime: 49 min.
  283. 6 Floors to Hell
    First Published: 2008
    On the outskirts of Tel Aviv, in an underground world, live hundreds of Palestinian workers sleep in this hell in order to find a day's work in Israel and bring money home to their families in the West Bank.
  284. Six Weeks of Solidarity
    First Published: 1995
    A look at the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, 75 years later.
  285. Sleeping Children Awake 
    First Published: 1992
    A feature length documentary video outlining the history of the residential school system and its effect on generations of First Nations’ people in Canada.
  286. The Slow Motion Execution of Julian Assange
    First Published: 2023
  287. Smoke Traders
    First Published: 2012
    Smoke Traders tells the story of the contraband tobacco trade and the effect on individual lives and communities from a Native perspective.
  288. So Far From Home: Chileans In Exile
    First Published: 1982
  289. Social Activist Grace Lee Boggs on Shaking Up the Status Quo in America
    First Published: 2007
    Grace Lee Boggs has been a part of almost every major movement in the United States in the last 75 years, including: Labor, Civil Rights, Black Power, Women’s Rights and Environmental Justice.
  290. Society of the Spectacle (film)
    First Published: 1973
    "The Society of the Spectacle" is Guy Debord's film adaptation of his own 1967
    book of the same name (see http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/CX6572.htm and http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord/index.htm)
  291. A Society to be Transformed
    First Published: 1977
  292. Solidarity: Five Largely Unknown Truths about Israel, Palestine and the Occupied Territories
    First Published: 2020
    Drawing on both historical and current struggles for Palestinians under siege, occupation and forced displacement, including the Great March of Return in Gaza, the film provides a stirring indictment of Israel’s settler project as well as that of the cable networks’ deliberate spin to shield Israel from accountability. As the film’s title indicates, Peck divides the film into five themes: the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba, when 800,000 Palestinians were forced from their homeland in 1947-1948; Israel’s disproportionate violence against Palestinians; Israel’s continued expansion of illegal settlement colonies; the US’ financial support of Israel; and what’s behind the smear campaigns to label criticism of Israel’s policies as anti-Semitism.
  293. Some Black Women
  294. Somewhere Between
    First Published: 1983
  295. Spadina Labour Lyceum
    346 Spadina
    The Labor Lyceum was the hub of social and political life of several needle trade unions.
  296. Speaking Our Peace
    First Published: 1986
  297. SPEC - Nuclear Debates
    First Published: 1978
  298. The Spectre Of Hope
    First Published: 2002
    The Spectre Of Hope is based on the latest work of photographer Sebastiao Salgado. Salgado spent 6 years traveling to over 40 countries, taking pictures of globalization and its consequences - most notably, the mass migrations of populations around the world. In the film, Salgado presents his remarkable photographs in conversation with John Berger.
  299. The Spectre of Hope
    with Sebastiao Salgado and John Berger
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2012
    In THE SPECTRE OF HOPE, Sebastião Salgado joins Berger to pore over Salgado's collection "Migrations." Six years and 43 countries in the making (ranging across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America), "Migrations" contains photographs of people pushed from their homes and traditions to cities and their margins -- slums and streets and refugee camps.
    Sitting at the kitchen table of Berger's home in Quincy, a village in the Swiss Alps, their intimate conversation, intercut with photographs from "Migrations," combines a discussion of Salgado's work with a critique of globalization, and a wide-ranging investigation of the power of the image.
  300. Starting From Nina: The Politics of Learning
    First Published: 1978
  301. The Story of Stuff
    First Published: 2007
    The Story of Stuff, originally released in December 2007, is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the Stuff in your life forever.
  302. Bird and Fortune - Subprime Crisis
    First Published: 2008
    The Subprime mortgage crisis explained. John Bird and John Fortune (the Long Johns) brilliantly, and accurately, describing the mindset of the investment banking community in this satirical interview.
  303. Symbols of Resistance
    A Tribute to the Martyrs of the Chican@ Movement
    First Published: 2017
    The documentary looks at the history of the Chicano and Chicana Movement in the 1970's; with a focus on Colorado and Northern New Mexico it explores the struggle for land, the student movement and community struggles against police repression. Runtime: 75 min.
  304. Tales of Tomorrow: Our Elders
    First Published: 1983
  305. Tales of Wesakechak
    First Published: 1986
  306. Tanaka-san will not do Calisthenics
    First Published: 2008
    Filmed in Japan, this film follows Tanaka-san who was let go from his job at Oki Electric Manufacturing Company 25 years ago when he refused to conform to militaristic working expectations. Tanaka-san sings in front of his old office each day.
  307. Tell the Truth and Run
    George Seldes and the American Press
    Dissects American journalism throughout the Twentieth Century through the actions of independent newspaperman George Seldes, and offers a piercing look at censorship and suppression in the media.
  308. Terms and Conditions May Apply
    Think your privacy settings are protecting you? Think again. This wry and disturbing doc exposes what governments and corporations do with your personal information each time you click "I Accept".
  309. Theaters of War
    First Published: 2024
    Traveling across America, filmmaker and media scholar Roger Stahl engages an array of other researchers, bewildered veterans, PR insiders, and industry producers willing to talk. In unsettling and riveting detail, he discovers how the military and CIA have pushed official narratives while systematically scrubbing scripts of war crimes, corruption, racism, sexual assault, coups, assassinations, and torture.
  310. They Will Have to Kill Us First
    First Published: 2015
    They Will Have To Kill Us First: Malian music in exile is a feature-length documentary following musicians in Mali in the wake of a jihadist takeover and subsequent banning of music. Music, one of the most important forms of communication in Mali, disappeared overnight in 2012 when Islamic extremists groups rose up to capture an area the size of the UK and France combined. But rather than lay down their instruments, Mali’s musicians fought back.
  311. This Changes Everything 
    First Published: 2015
    Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything, the film presents portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Klein suggests that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
  312. This isn't Wonderland:
    Women in focus
    First Published: 1983
  313. Three Brothers In Blood
    First Published: 2006
  314. Tomorrow's power
    First Published: 2017
    An award-winning documentary that follows stories of communities in Germany, Gaza and Colombia that are challenging current power structures, leading to possibilities of a future with both social and climate justice. Runtime: 76 min.
  315. Toronto Talks Transit with Herman Rosenfeld
    First Published: 2014
    Herman Rosenfeld speaks about transit issues in Toronto, and the campaign for good affordable public transit
  316. Tribal Justice
    First Published: 2017
    Documents an effective criminal justice reform movement in America: the efforts of tribal courts to return to traditional, community-healing concepts of justice.
  317. Tricks of the Trade
    First Published: 2014
    They are everyday brand names, products and services we all know and use -- but where does all the money go and how much tax do these companies pay? Find out some of the strategies many corporations use to drastically cut their tax bills.
  318. Truth Commission Special Report
    This website documents the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
  319. The Turnaround Decade Toward Sustainable Development
    First Published: 1989
  320. 24 Days in Brooks
    First Published: 2007
    Centred on the 24-day Lakeside Packers strike, this film is a nuanced portrait of people working together for change. They are people like Peter Jany Khwai, who escaped war in Sudan and Edil Hassan, a devout Muslim born in Somalia.
  321. Twice Removed: Double Punishment and Racial Profiling in Canada
    First Published: 2013
    Immigrants who commit criminal offences are punished twice: once when they're sentenced for their crime, and again when they are permanently removed from Canada, even if they had lived here since childhood.This is known as "double punishment."
  322. Two Video Tapes For Use With Immigrant Women
    First Published: 1981
  323. Ukraine Is Not a Brothel
    First Published: 2013
    Ukraine Is Not a Brothel is a 2013 Australian film directed by Kitty Green. The film debuted at the 70th Venice International Film Festival, although was not part of the competition.The documentary concerns the FEMEN movement, a feminist protest group originating from Ukraine.
  324. Ukraine on Fire - The Real Story
    First Published: 2016
    A documentary film that provides historical perspective for the deep divisions in the Ukraine, and the violent events leading up to the overthrow of democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych. While covered by Western media as a revolution by the people, the film demonstrates that it was in fact a staged removal from power that was ulitimately crafted by the US government. Runtime: 95 min.
  325. Ukraine on Fire: The Real Story
    First Published: 2019
  326. Under Fire: Documentary details attacks on journalists during Gaza offensive
    First Published: 2015
    In the summer of 2014, Israel launched a military operation on Gaza dubbed "Operation Protective Edge". By the time Israeli forces withdrew from the strip, 17 journalists were confirmed dead. No one has been held accountable for their deaths so far.
  327. Under the Dome
    First Published: 2015
    A self-financed Chinese documentary film by Chai Jing, a former China Central Television journalist, concerning air pollution in China. It is narrated by Chai, who presents the results of her year-long research mostly in the form of a lecture.
  328. Under the Red Star (Punatähden alla)
    First Published: 2011
    Under the Red Star (a.k.a. Big Finn Hall), is a feature length docu-drama, in Finnish and English, about the vibrant culture and politics at the heart of Canada’s most significant worker’s hall, in Thunder Bay.
  329. Unions (a film)
    First Published: 1980
  330. Unprovoked narratives
    First Published: 2023
    A series of films celebrating the beauty of Gaza, its people, its struggle and its survival. The program aims to resist the demonisation of this beautiful place.
  331. Untold History of the United States
    First Published: 2012
    A 2012 documentary series directed, produced, and narrated by Oliver Stone. The ten-part series is supplemented by a 750-page companion book, The Untold History of the United States, also written by Stone and Kuznick, released on Oct 30, 2012.
  332. Utopia
    First Published: 2014
    Drawing on John Pilger's long association with the first people of his homeland Australia, Utopia is both an epic portrayal of the oldest continuous human culture, and an investigation into a suppressed colonial past and rapacious present.
    Utopia tells a universal story of power and resistance in the media age driven by old imperatives and presented as liberalism.
  333. Vancouver People's Law School
    First Published: 1976
    Video tapes made by local lawyers who explain laws and legal procedures.
  334. Video: IJV and CJPME tell Israeli trade Minister Eli Cohen and the Canadian Trade Minister to #EndApartheidTrade and divest from the Israeli-Canadian arms trade
    First Published: 2018
  335. Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny
    First Published: 1970
    John Pilger's first film, The Quiet Mutiny, made in 1970 for the British current affairs series World in Action, broke the sensational story of insurrection by American drafted troops in Vietnam. In his classic history of war and journalism, The First Casualty, Phillip Knightley describes Pilger's revelations as among the most important reporting from Vietnam. The soldiers' revolt – including the killing of unpopular officers – marked the beginning of the end for the United States in Indo-China.
  336. Vincenzo Pietropaolo: Witness to the Harvest Pilgrims
    First Published: 2009
    Vincenzo Pietropaolo has documented the story of Mexican migrant workers over a number of years. This is a brief look into that story.
  337. Wadim
    First Published: 2012
    The story of Latvians who sought asylum in Germany, their lives there, and the consequences when harsh immigration policies suddenly tear them apart in this critique of laws written and applied without regard for human consequences
  338. Wages for Housework Video Tape
    First Published: 1976
    A video record of the development of the wages for housework debate.
  339. The Waiting Room
    First Published: 2012
    The film watches a Californian hospital for a full day, observing what patients and staff go through as they deal with the over-crowded, under-funded US health care system.
  340. Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
    First Published: 2005
    A documentary film about the largest company on earth, featuring the stories and everyday lives of families and communities struggling to survive in a Wal-Mart world.
  341. The War on Democracy 
    First Published: 2007
    This film by John Pilger explores the current and past relationship of Washington with Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.
  342. War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
    Free Press and the National Security State
    First Published: 2013
    During his election campaigns, Barak Obama promised the most transparent administration in U.S. history. Cynics can rejoice in the fact that the Obama administration has indicted more people for violating government secrecy than all previous administrations combined. This is the story of four whistleblowers who who traded their careers and life normalcy for slander, danger, legal prosecution and an opportunity to expose the crimes of the US government.
  343. Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier
    First Published: 1992   Published: 2015
    Documentary about American Indian activist, Leonard Peltier. His story is told within the context of the American Indian Movement, the US federal government, and the multinational companies interested in mining the land in South Dakota.
  344. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1943 sung by Paul Robeson
    Zog Nit Keynol
    First Published: 1949
    Paul Robeson's rendition (in Yiddish) of Zog Nit Keynol, often called the song of the Warsaw Ghetto. It was written by the Jewish poet and resistance fighter of the Vilna ghetto Hirsh Glik, on hearing of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and was adopted as the unofficial anthem of Jewish partisans.
  345. We Are Wisconsin
    First Published: 2012
    When a Republican Governor’s bill threatens to wipe away worker rights and lock out public debate, six (extra)ordinary citizens join the growing protest at the Wisconsin State Capitol, and spend the next twenty-six days building a movement that not only challenges the bill, but the soul of a nation.
  346. We Blocked the Boat: Oakland 2014
    First Published: 2014
    Blocking Israel's ship from unloading in Oakland, California.
  347. We Blocked The Boat - Oakland 2014
    First Published: 2014
    For four days straight the San Francisco Bay Area community blocked the Israeli ZIM ship from unloading at the SSA. And today, we salute the rank and file workers of ILWU local 10 for standing with us against Israeli Apartheid by honoring our pickets.
  348. We Call Them Intuders: Financing Canadian Mining in Africa
    First Published: 2015
    If you live and work in Canada, chances are you're connected to Candian mining companies through your savings, taxes, CPP contributions, RRSPs and other investments. We Call Them Intruders travels from Canada to Africa and back again to unearth stories from people negatively impacted by some of Canada's largest international mining projects.
  349. We Just Won't Take It
    First Published: 1976
    Film expressing the opposition of the U.A.W. to wage controls.
  350. We Still Have A Heart
    First Published: 1977
    In this videotape program, the Dene people tell how their land and political rights have been usurped. They use as examples the coming of the mining and petroleum corporations, and what this has meant for them in terms of political struggle for their land. The videotape focuses specifically on the presentation of the Dene people's position to the federal government in October 1976.
  351. We teach life, sir
    Rafeef Ziadah is a Canadian-Palestinian spoken word artist and activist.. Her poem 'We teach life, sir' is about the occupation of Palestine.
  352. We The Power - The Future of Energy is Community Owned
    First Published: 2021
    A journey into the citizen-led community-energy movement in Europe. An exploration of divesting power from large energy companies and placing that power of electricity in the hands of local communities. How can local activists create more financially empowering, environmentally beneficial, and healthier communities?
  353. We Were Children 
    First Published: 2012
    A 2012 documentary film about the experiences of First Nations children in the Canadian Indian residential school system.
  354. Where Heaven Meets Hell
    First Published: 2011
    Drawing strength from their families and their Muslim faith, Indonesian sulfur miners face gruelling labour and treacherous conditions on an active volcano, while struggling to overcome the desperate poverty and illiteracy that plague their community.
  355. Who Cares?
    First Published: 2012
    Rosie Dranfeld captures the gritty and dangerous world of Edmonton's sex-trade workers. In this post-Pickton era where the unthinkable is now a gruesome reality, women voluntarily provide police with DNA samples for future identification.
  356. Who is Dayani Cristal?
    Arizona's desert claims another migrant's life. With only the tattoo "Dayani Cristal" as a clue, a search begins across the continent to discover his identity and the people he may have left behind. With Gael Garica Bernal.
  357. Who Killed Chea Vichea?
    First Published: 2009
    Chea Vichea served as president of Cambodia's garment workers' union until he was gunned down on the street in 2004. Filmed over four years, this film explores motives for Vichea's assassination and unravels a police plot that framed two men, who were sentenced to 20 years in prison.
  358. Whoa Canada
    First Published: 2015
  359. Who's Funding the White Helmets?
    Reality Check
    First Published: 2018
    You've no doubt heard of the White Helmets, aka the Syria Civil Defense. They claim to be a neutral entity in Syria. They say they are just helping people caught in the middle of a civil war. But are they? Follow the money and you will find numerous ties to government funding from not only the U.S., but the U.K., Netherlands, Denmark and Germany. We untangle these ties to the White Helmets in a Reality Check you won't get anywhere else.
  360. Why we voted leave: voices from northern England - documentary
    First Published: 2016
    A short look at why those in the north of England mainly voted to leave the EU - from Guerrera Films.
  361. The Willmar 8
    First Published: 1981
    Eight female employees of the Citizens National Bank in Willmar Minnesota, USA went on strike on December 16, 1977 over charges of sex discrimination. The tellers and bookkeepers were protesting unequal pay and unequal opportunities for advancement.
  362. Winding Down
    First Published: 1983
  363. Witch Hunt
    A documentary about unfounded allegations of satanic abuse of children.
  364. With My Heart in Yambo
    First Published: 2011
    Twenty-four years ago director Fernanda Restrepo's two teenage brothers disappeared. A year later, the family finally learned the worst possible news: the brothers had been kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the Ecuadorean police, and then dumped. Restrepo embarks on the painful journey of recounting her family’s story, and documents yet one more search in Lake Yambo, where the boys’ bodies were dumped.
  365. Women's Work
    First Published: 1977
    A film about the wage disparity between men and women.
  366. The World's Most Fashionable Prison
    First Published: 2012
    Fashion designer Puey Quinones works with inmates in a Philipine prison to teach them how to sew, work with fabrics and see their ideas go from sketch to finished product.
  367. Wrenched
    First Published: 2014
    Wrenched captures the passing of the monkey wrench from the pioneers of eco-activism to the new generation who are carrying Edward Abbey's legacy into the 21st century. The fight continues to sustain the last bastion of the American wilderness - the spirit of the West.
  368. Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
    First Published: 1979
    The film recounts the bombing of Cambodia by the United States in 1970 during the Vietnam War, the subsequent brutality and genocide that occurred when Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge militia took over, the poverty and suffering of the people, and the limited aid since given by the West.
  369. The Yes Men Are Revolting
    First Published: 2014
    A documentary film about The Yes Men, a culture jamming duo who use the aliases Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno. The film follows their exploits as they prank various organizations and corporations who engage in climate change denial.
  370. Yiddish Language and Song: A Collision with Zionism and the Birth of Israel
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Yiddish culture archivist, Frank Krasnowsky.
  371. You, Me & the SPP: Trading Democracy for Corporate Rule
    First Published: 2009
    What do secrecy, police provocateurs, an assault on democracy and infringements on citizens' rights have in common? The Security and Prosperity Partnership.
  372. You might think you're superior but I think I'm equal
    First Published: 1982
  373. The Young Karl Marx
    Der Junge Karl Marx
    First Published: 2017
    A 2017 film about Karl Marx directed by Haitian Raoul Peck, co-written by Peck and Pascal Bonitzer, and starring August Diehl.
  374. The Young Man Was
    Part 1: United Red Army
    First Published: 2012
    The start of a film trilogy that traces 1970s ultra left movements' turn to violence; Part One is based on the negotiations of the 1977 JAL hijacking, between the Japanese Red Army members on board the plane and the Dhaka control tower in Bangladesh.