JustFilms Collection
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The Education of Shelby Knox
Texas teenager Shelby Knox joins a youth group campaigning for better sex education in Lubbock high schools and begins to question her conservative upbringing. When the campaign broadens to include a fight for a gay-straight alliance, Shelby must confront her family and a local youth pastor.
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The Massie Affair
Late in the summer of 1931, Thalia Fortescue Massie, whose husband was a lieutenant in the Navy, accused five Asian men of gang rape. Evidence proved they did not commit the crime, but the men were attacked and brutally beaten by American servicemen. This film examines the facts of the crimes and their legacy.
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Trudell
This film tells the life story of Native American poet, musician, and activist John Trudell–and his heartfelt message of personal responsibility to the earth and all its inhabitants.
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Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise
On May 17, 1954, in its decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the US Supreme Court struck down the doctrine of “separate but equal” ending legal segregation in American education. Fifty years later, how close are we to fulfilling the promise of Brown?
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Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed
Shirley Chisholm, who championed the causes of marginalized Americans, was both the first black woman to be elected to Congress and the first to run for president. Chisholm ’72 traces her path from modest roots to the heights of American political aspiration.
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Matters of Race
Using memoirs, autobiographies, interviews, and letters from leading authors, Matters of Race challenges the audience to reconsider the architecture of race, its role in US democracy, and its relationship to power.
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This Far by Faith
A series that traces the religious history of African Americans from 1526 — the first year that Africans were introduced to Christianity — into the 21st century, This Far By Faith demonstrates how men and women of color have been forced, arguably more so than any other ethnic group in the United States, to rise above their circumstances to flourish and prevail, guided by their faith in a divine power.
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Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
South African musicians, playwrights, poets and activists recall the struggle against apartheid from the 1940s to the 1990s that stripped black South Africans of basic human rights, and the important role that music played in that struggle (“amandia” is the Nguni word for “power”). The documentary uses a mixture of interviews, musical performances and historical film footage. Miriam Makeba, Abdullah Ibrahim, Hugh Masekela and Vusi Mahlasela are among the South Africans who take part.
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Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence shows the Tampa, Florida, police responding to domestic violence calls and the work of The Spring, the principal shelter in Tampa for women and children.
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Well-Founded Fear
Political asylum in the United States: Who deserves it? Who gets it? Who decides? Well-Founded Fear enters the closed corridors of the US immigration service for an extraordinary close-up look at the dramatic real-life stage where American ideals about human rights collide with the nearly impossible task of trying to know the truth.
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Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street
In 1985, African American, Latino, Cape Verdean, and European American residents of Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood united to revitalize their community. The voices of committed residents, activists, and city officials articulate how this ethnically diverse neighborhood was able to create and carry out its own agenda for change.
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Freedom on My Mind
Documenting the most tumultuous and significant years of the American civil rights movement, Freedom on My Mind tells the dramatic story of the Mississippi voter registration project of 1961 to 1964 and Freedom Summer, which led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.