JustFilms Collection
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Sergio
The diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello served in the United Nations for more than 30 years, dying tragically at UN headquarters in Baghdad in 2003. Haunting footage documents that shocking day. Based on Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power’s biography Sergio: One Man’s Fight to Save the World.
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The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and his team issue arrest warrants for Lord’s Resistance Army leaders in Uganda, put a Congolese warlord on trial, and charge Sudan’s president with crimes against humanity. Will the court succeed?
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We Shall Remain
Five heartbreaking yet inspiring stories highlight Native ingenuity and resilience, upending two-dimensional stereotypes of American Indians and establishing Native history as an essential part of American history.
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Full Disclosure: A Reporter’s Journey toward Truth In Iraq
Filmmaker-journalist Brian Palmer follows a US Marines combat unit through revolving-door deployments to Iraq, capturing the cycle of tedium and terror that traps Iraqis and Americans alike within the amorphous combat zone.
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Faubourg Tremé
The home of jazz and the birthplace of civil rights in the South, Faubourg Tremé in New Orleans may be America’s oldest African American neighborhood.
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Roberto Clemente
Born in Puerto Rico, Roberto Clemente was an exceptional baseball player and humanitarian whose career sheds light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights, and cultural change.
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Secrecy
Is government secrecy the key to victory in our struggle against terrorism, or our Achilles heel? Focusing on classified secrets, this film explores the tensions between our safety as a nation and our ability to function as a democracy.
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Torturing Democracy
With exclusive interviews, explosive documents, and rare archival footage, this series tells the inside story of how the U.S. government adopted torture as official policy in the aftermath of 9/11.
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Traces of the Trade
After Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were part of the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history, she and fellow descendants set off to learn more, uncovering the extent of Northern complicity in slavery while stumbling through the minefield of contemporary race relations.
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Trouble the Water
An aspiring rap artist trapped in the Ninth Ward during Katrina films herself and her husband and neighbors. Footage of their harrowing ordeal is interwoven with news segments and with images shot in the city over the next two years.
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Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
Unnatural Causes explores the social and racial determinants of health and the stark disparities in health care nationwide. Findings reveal that low socioeconomic status is as disruptive a root cause of illness as bad habits, unlucky genes, germs, and viruses.
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Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Zora Neale Hurston’s unique artistic vision is traced back to her childhood in Eatonville, Florida (the first all-black incorporated town in the US), as insights from leading scholars are interspersed with rare footage of the rural South — some of it shot by Hurston herself.