JustFilms Collection
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Women, War, and Peace
By putting women at the center of an urgent dialogue about conflict and security, this series challenges the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain and reframes our understanding of modern warfare.
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Lemon
Ex-con turned poet/performer Lemon Andersen fights for an escape from generations of poverty by bringing his life’s secrets to the New York stage. But revisiting his troubled past has more in store for him than he bargained for, as he is confronted by his demons time and again.
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Barbershop Punk
Barbershop quartet baritone Robb Topolski finds himself at ground zero of a landmark case whose outcome will affect the future of the Internet and the rights of every American citizen.
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If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise
In 2006, director Spike Lee created a startling record of the cataclysmic effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans with his award-winning documentary When the Levees Broke. Five years later, Lee returns to New Orleans to see how the ambitious plans to reinvent the Crescent City are playing out.
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My Perestroika
A complex picture of the dreams and disillusionment of those raised behind the Iron Curtain, this documentary follows five ordinary Russians from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia.
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Beyond the Bricks
African American students Shaquiel Ingram and Erick Graham struggle to stay on track in the public school system of Newark, New Jersey.
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Copyright Criminals
How hip-hop rose from the streets of New York to become a multibillion-dollar industry, and what happened when record company lawyers got involved.
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Estilo Hip Hop
Three young men from Brazil, Chile, and Cuba who strongly believe that hip-hop can change the world mobilize youth to become politically active. Estilo Hip Hop tells their story as risks increase and they face serious personal and political challenges.
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Have You Heard from Johannesburg?
Citizen activists fought for three decades to bring down the brutal, racist system of apartheid in South Africa when their governments would not. This unprecedented international movement is chronicled in five parts.
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Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
In the 1940s, when a white, Jewish intellectual named Melville Herskovits asserted that black culture was not pathological, but instead grounded in deep African roots, he gave vital support to the civil rights movement and signaled the rise of identity politics. But what does it mean that his subjects had little or no say in the academic discourse about them?
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New Muslim Cool
Puerto Rican American rapper Hamza Perez left drug dealing and street life behind and became a Muslim. Now he’s working to start a new religious community, rebuild his shattered family, and take his message of faith to other young people through hard-hitting hip-hop music. But when the FBI raids his mosque, Hamza must confront the realities of the post-9/11 world.
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RFK in the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope
Through never-before-seen archival footage and interviews in South Africa and the United States, the story of Robert Kennedy’s 1966 visit to South Africa during the worst years of apartheid is told.