JustFilms Collection
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The Mulberry House
At 17, Sara Ishaq, the daughter of a Yemeni father and a Scottish mother, leaves her home in Yemen, where she grew up, and moves to Scotland. Ten years later, much changed, she returns to Yemen, to find, to her shock, that her family and her country are balanced at a knife’s edge at the brink of a revolution.
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The Cherokee Word for Water
Using the traditional concept of gadugi — working together to solve a problem — members of a Cherokee community in rural Oklahoma build nearly 20 miles of waterline to bring running water to their community, inspiring other self-help projects in Indian Country. Based on a true story.
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
African American history, from the origins of slavery on the African continent up to today — when the United States has a black president yet remains a nation deeply divided by race — is chronicled in its full sweep, narrated by Henry Louis Gates Jr. in six episodes.
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Powerless
In Kanpur, India, a young electricity thief and a hard-nosed bureaucrat face off during a summer of power cuts and riots.
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Outlawed in Pakistan
Risking not only her reputation but also her life, teenager Kainat Soomro accused four men of gang rape. Outlawed in Pakistan traces her five-year odyssey through Pakistan’s flawed justice system and efforts of the accused to clear their names.
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Mother of George
Mother of George captures nuances of African immigrant life in New York City and the unique and fascinating Nigerian culture through the portrait of a newlywed couple living in Brooklyn who manage a restaurant and are trying to conceive a child.
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Makers
Makers expands on PBS’s critically acclaimed Makers: Women Who Make America to examine the impact of the feminist movement on six fields once largely closed to women: business, space, Hollywood, comedy, war, and politics.
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Inequality for All
Former secretary of labor Robert Reich makes an eloquent and impassioned argument about how increasing income inequality in the United States threatens not only the middle class but also the very foundation of democracy itself.
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How Democracy Works Now
Called “the greatest films on government ever made” the 12 feature documentaries in How Democracy Works Now follow the arc of the legislative process in Washington, DC, giving an illuminating fly-on-the-wall view of a wide-ranging cast of characters as they work on the difficult project of immigration reform.
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Herman’s House
Herman Wallace spent over 40 years in solitary confinement in a US prison. When artist Jackie Sumell proposed an unusual project, Wallace found an outlet for his struggle along with an unlikely friendship.
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Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
The roots of the current immigration crisis are found in US interventions in Latin America, from wars of expansion to covert operations. Based on the groundbreaking book by award-winning journalist and Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez.
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God Loves Uganda
God Loves Uganda examines the campaign to spread the values of America’s evangelical Christian Right in Uganda and the fierce fight against homosexuality taken on by both American and Ugandan fundamentalist religious leaders.