Human Rights Movies

Maurice plays a passive role in his life. He hides a truth that tries to get out, but when he opens his mouth, only silence comes out. Fed up with...

In April 2015, two shipwrecks in the central Mediterranean resulted in over a thousand deaths. The first, on 12 April, occurred when an overcrowded...

Going to the doctor to make a diagnosis or to have a treatment is a common thing in the outside world. But for every prisoner it is a very difficult...

Quinta Seré, previously known as Mansión Seré, is a sports club where a clandestine detention and torture center was working...

Vena, a Catholic, lives in the Muslim-majority region Aceh. Vena wears veil in her daily life and befriends many Muslim friends. Nevertheless, how...

A story of the sacrifice of farmers in defending their land from the mining permit given by the local government to a big company in the district of...

In this exclusive documentary BBC News Arabic investigates cases of alleged human rights abuses in Bahrain that have taken place against the backdrop...

Lee Yunjeong, my mother, who was devoted to church, stopped attending after the Sewol ferry disaster. Instead, she started going to work at the...

This documentary follows the life of Seven children who are working under extreme conditions at India's busiest cremation ground, Manikarnika in...

A Litany for Survival' explores the shades between love, rage, and rebellion as a black person surviving in America. Two months before the shocking...

Shuja’iyah: Land of the Brave represents one filmmaker’s personal reflection on the meaning of “crimes against humanity” in...

On a winter night in 2002, a couple in their early 20s is breaking up atop a bridge, when the woman falls down. Is it a suicide or accidental death?...

River of Tears and Rage is a film culled from Kodao Productions' Facebook Live coverage of Baby River's wake and burial. Amid a raging coronavirus...

Children play amidst cycles of thunder and violence.

Through the stories of a custodian, pediatrician, housewife and others who have experienced the brutal violence in war-torn Sudan, Bruce David Janu's...

A documentary about the Teatro Abierto theater movement in La Matanza, Provincia de Buenos Aires, during Argentina's last dictatorship.

Marta and Karina are sex workers also studying to become lawyers. Filmed over ten years, this documentary captures their unlikely journey from...