Medical Committee for Human Rights (Newsreel #40)
The film shows the medical committees role during the long strike at San Francisco State College and the need for tactical knowledge of first aid as the student movement intensified.
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Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights
Through the personal stories of several former black female Civil Rights activists, Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights unearths the lesser-known story of black women's political marginalization between the
Stand UP, Speak OUT: Reproductive Rights - Abortion
Women share their experiences having an abortion before and after it was legal. Some endured harmful, painful procedures; others were treated with respect in safe, clean medical offices.
Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance
The historical ties between Black and Jewish Americans began long before the Civil Rights era. Shared Legacies explores this significant alliance, sharing eyewitness accounts, interviews with civil rights leaders, includ
Stand UP, Speak OUT: Voting Rights - Catherine Cretu
A woman growing up in Washington, DC was outraged to learn that her parents could not vote. As an adult, she knows the right to vote cannot be taken for granted.
Stand UP, Speak OUT: Reproductive Rights - Know Your Rights
The history of American women's reproductive rights from Colonial times to the present. Social customs, legislation and court decisions have impacted American women’s right to control their own bodies. Abortion and contr
Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP
Civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall's triumph in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision to desegregate America's public schools completed the final leg of a journey of over 20 years laying the gr
(Sex Workers Cry) Rights Not Rescue in Cambodia
In Rights Not Rescue, the film’s subjects question Cambodia’s focus on training ‘Rescued’ female sex workers to sew in low wage garment factories. They want governments, NGOs, labour unions, and donors to seriously addre
The Equal Rights Amendment: Unfinished Business For the Constitution
An educational about the history of the Suffrage ERA movements in the United States.
The G.I. Bill of Rights
This cartoon was featured as part of the U.S. military's "Army-Navy Screen Magazine, No. 60", issued in September 1945. The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided
I Am A Men's Rights Activist
Journalist Alvaro Alvarez travels with former porn-star and men’s rights activist Philipp Tanzer to a Conference on Men’s Issues, shedding light on the controversial movement.
Stand UP, Speak OUT: Reproductive Rights - Family Planning
Multiple generations of women talk about balancing family and career. They chose to work at home while raising a family, build a career before having children, or live happily without children.
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
In 1867, when the United States purchased the Alaska territory, the promise of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights didn't apply to Alaska Natives. Their struggle to win justice is one of the great, untold chapters of
Kath Duncan - The Untold Struggle for Civil Rights
A Documentary film about the life and activism of LGBTQ Scot Kath Duncan The most important Uk Civil rights leader past 100 years but almost forgotten in time until my Highly acclaimed stage play #liberty and my biograph
Stand UP, Speak OUT: Reproductive Rights - Birth Control
Women talk about the consequences of having or not having access to effective birth control. Over the past 50 years, medical and social advances have given women more control over their reproductive health.
The Human Rights Concerts - An Embrace Of Hope
The An Embrace Of Hope concert was a de facto post-script to the Human Rights Now! tour. It took place in Chile - a country that for political reasons it was not possible for the Human Rights Now! tour to visit during th
Rights & Wrongs: The Story of Women in Islam
An exploration of the conditions of Muslim women from the present to the past and a vision of their future.
The Good Fight: James Farmer Remembers the Civil Rights Movement
When he rolled into the Jim Crow South on a Greyhound bus - a black man sitting in the whites-only front seat - James Farmer was scared. "Courage is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear,"
Stand UP, Speak OUT: Voting Rights - The Polk Women
Four generations of politically active women talk about voting and running for office. They grew up assuming that women belonged in government and everyone should exercise the right to vote.
Stand UP, Speak OUT: Voting Rights - The Louie Women
Three generations of Black women talk about their voting experiences. Growing up in the South under Jim Crow meant that voting was impossible or dangerous. After the Voting Rights Act in the 1960s, community services imp