JustFilms Collection
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A Path Appears
A Path Appears follows Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, and actor-advocates as they travel in Colombia, Haiti, Kenya, and the United States, uncovering the world’s harshest cases of gender-based oppression and human rights violations and report on proven methods to combat them.
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A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers
Far from their familiar lives in Bangladesh, 160 women join the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti. In one of the first all-female, predominantly Muslim peacekeeping units, they shatter every stereotype about the capabilities of Muslim women.
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A Ballerina’s Tale
African American ballerina Misty Copeland examines her prodigious rise, a potentially career-ending injury she sustained, and themes of race and body image in the classical ballet world.
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3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets
Through eyewitness testimony and in-depth reporting, 3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets dissects the shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis and its aftermath, revealing the devastating effects of racial bias, gun violence, and “stand your ground” laws.
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Immigration Battle
What drove President Obama to take his decisive executive action on immigration? We enter Washington’s corridors of power to explore the political realities of one of the country’s most divisive issues.
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Food for Thought; Food for Life
As farms become supersized, the environment suffers and so does the quality of food grown for consumption. Food for Thought, Food for Life asks audiences to think differently about food and to make new decisions that will positively impact public health, the earth and their communities.
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Years of Living Dangerously
From the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy to the upheaval caused by drought in the Middle East, this series explores the human impact of climate change through reporting by respected journalists and Hollywood stars.
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We Are the Giant
During the Arab Spring, six people confront the agonizing dilemma at the core of all struggles for justice and freedom: whether to take up arms and fight or use nonviolent means to try to bring about change.
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Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
Through a Lens Darkly looks at contemporary artists probing the recesses of the American family album by interrogating images of stories suppressed, forgotten and lost. It is the first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present.
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The Supreme Price
After her father’s presidential victory is annulled and her mother is assassinated, Hafsat Abiola fights to transform Nigeria’s corrupt culture of governance into a democracy capable of serving the country’s most marginalized citizens: women.
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The Shore Break
Set on South Africa’s Wild Coast, The Shore Break tells the story of two cousins whose opposing ideas about how to develop their land divide their rural community and play out against a backdrop of national politics.
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The Hand That Feeds
Shy sandwich maker Mahoma Lopez unites his undocumented immigrant co-workers to fight abusive conditions at a popular New York restaurant chain. The power struggle that ensues turns a single city block into a battlefield in America’s new wage wars.