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Abortion and Women's Rights 1970

This is the first film ever made about the struggle for abortion rights in the U.S.

Women Make Movies | 2022 | 28 minutes

Abortion: Add to Cart

With increasing burdens on clinics, activists are combining the power of abortion pills and the internet to provide self-managed abortions in a revolutionary way

GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 35 minutes

About a War

A documentation of the Lebanese Civil War.

Collective Eye Films | 2019 | 84 minutes

Above and Below

Artist Tsherin Sherpa's remarkable 19-year journey from Tibetan Buddhist Thangka painter to global art superstar

GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 35 minutes

Accordions Rising

A documentary feature film about the resurgence of interest in accordion music over the last 30-40 years. Although many continue to see the accordion as the stodgy instrument of a bygone era – and accordion jokes abound – this film sets the record straight.

Roberta Cantow | 2016 | 74 minutes

The Activists

The story of activists who opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including their lives, the tactics they used, and the historical context.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 60 minutes

Actually, Iconic: Richard Estes

An unprecedented look at the king of photorealism.

GOOD DOCS | 2019 | 68 minutes

Adam Smith, The Birth of the Free Market

Capitalism is much more complex than the vision Adam Smith laid out. Indeed, it predates Smith by centuries and took root in the practices of colonialism and the slave trade. (Episode 1 of the Capitalism series)

Icarus Films | 2014 | 53 minutes

Adama

An animated coming-of-age tale of a young African boy searching for his brother, who has left home to fight in the First World War.

Distrib Films | 2020 | 82 minutes

Adios Amor

The discovery of lost photographs sparks the search for a hero that history forgot - Maria Moreno, a migrant mother who became the charismatic leader of an early movement for farmworker justice

GOOD DOCS | 2018 | 59 minutes