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A woman filming a documentary on childhood rape victims starts to question the nature of her childhood relationship with her riding instructor and running coach.

A wild teenage girl orchestrates a romance between her nanny and her father, who is a recovering addict.

Down the road from Woodstock, a revolution blossomed at a ramshackle summer camp for teenagers with disabilities, transforming their lives and igniting a landmark movement.

Exposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.

After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China's one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.

An investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military.

Explores how our culture's narrow definition of masculinity is harming our boys, men and society at large and unveils what we can do about it.

An account of a notable sexual assault that took place in Steubenville, Ohio in 2012, and the role that social media played in the crime and on the community.

An examination of how the nude female body is hypersexualized, under attack and exploited on and off screen in Hollywood.

A look at the life of poet, Nikki Giovanni and the revolutionary historical periods through which she lived, from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.

An affectionate portrait of a group of women who, after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and evacuation, returned to the exclusion zone surrounding the nuclear power plant and have resided there - semi-officially, for years.

Based on the book of The Shadow World, this feature length documentary is an investigation into the multi-billion dollar international arms trade.

Two Kenyan women transform a dilapidated, junk-filled library in downtown Nairobi into a hub for the city's citizens and creatives.

A soldier returns to her family, friends, and old job after a tour of duty, though she finds herself struggling to find her place in her everyday life.

The story follows a group of birds on a journey where they try to find a better life for themselves and the ones they love.

When a nation-wide uprising breaks out in 1987, a woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family, and freedom. Undaunted, she embraces all three, joining a clandestine network of women in a movement that forces the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time. Naila and the Uprising chronicles the remarkable journey of Naila Ayesh whose story weaves through the most vibrant, nonviolent mobilization in Palestinian history -- the First Intifada in the late 1980s.

When an unlikely duo discovers a pattern of illegal sterilizations in women's prisons, they wage a near impossible battle against the Department of Corrections.

The story of a notorious 1971 activist burglary of an FBI office that led to the Bureau's numerous abuses against dissidents being exposed.

A brick maker in Uganda becomes an Internet sensation when he tries his hand at making action movies.

In a divided America, Van Jones attempts to pass a landmark criminal justice bill - and finds himself under fire from all sides.

A campaign against the abuse of female workers by their male bosses, which starts in early 1970s Cleveland, leads to a popular fiction film with Fonda, Parton and Tomlin.

When a news publisher in Arkansas, an attorney in Arizona and a speech therapist in Texas are told they must choose between their jobs and their political beliefs, they launch legal battles.

An investigation into the way sexual assault cases are handled by police departments across the United States.

When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case--an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer's mother)--galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.

When the Taliban puts a bounty on Hassan Fazili's head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two daughters. Capturing the journey, Fazili shows the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run.

A group of women rise up to peace to Liberia and help bring to power the country's first female head of state.

An inside look at former FLDS teens who have become religious refugees in mainstream America.

Filmmaker Abigail Disney examines income inequality at her family's company, asking why the American dream seems so out of reach for so many.

Two families search for their loved ones who went missing in the fields of Brooks County, Texas, and find a haunted land with more questions than answers.

A life and death story about extreme heat, the politics of "disaster" and survival by zip code.

In a Midwestern state caught between the opioid epidemic and increasing incarceration rates for women, three unforgettable mothers - Amanda, Tomika, and Lydia - return home from prison and rebuild their lives after being separated from their children for years. Their stories overlap at a new reentry program for women, run by Malika, an advocate who was formerly incarcerated in the same prison.

The story of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition, a women's political party formed in 1996.

Eight miles inland of Miami's beaches, Liberty City residents fight to save their community from climate gentrification: their land, sitting on a ridge, becomes real estate gold.

Flat-track roller derby is currently the fastest growing sport for women in the world. With over 25,000 participants around the globe, women account for 98% of the athletes in the current modern revival. This Is How I Roll tells the story of the other 2%. In 2007, men decided they wanted to play, too. Armed only with the desire to emulate their derby girl heroes, the few aspiring men's teams struggle with indifferent audiences, injuries, and the one thing they thought they'd never encounter: gender bias. Shot over three years, This Is How I Roll tells the story of men on skates as they overcome obstacles, both hilarious and very real, and fulfill their desire to just hit like one of the girls.

Evangelical minister Rob Schenck questions if pro-lifers can also be pro-gun. By speaking out on guns, he finds an unlikely ally in Lucy McBath, the pro-choice mom of a gun victim.

SEEDS OF TIME follows agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler's global journey to save the eroding foundation of our food supply in a new era of climate change.

A documentary that follows one year in the life of American pro basketball player Kevin Sheppard, who signed on to play for the upstart Iranian Super League team A.S. Shiraz.

An intimate and kaleidoscopic voyage behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the U.S.

Wanda Johnson and Angela Williams, mothers of young Black men victimized by police brutality, come together and build a network of community-led support, mutual aid, and healing.

Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single mother at 50. Overnight, she's pushed to deal with her stuff: 63 boxes of her parent's heirlooms overwhelming her office-turned-future-baby's room, the weight her mother had begged her to lose, and the reality of being a half century older than her daughter.

A meditation on the elemental bonds of family told through portraits of four Syrian families in the aftermath of war.

A group of tenacious Hasidic women in Brooklyn take matters into their own hands to change their own community from within, smashing the community patriarchy by creating the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York City.

After their lives are overturned by vicious online harassment, three women seek justice from the internet.

Two women who left their marriages and became a couple try to maintain a collective bookstore and vegetarian restaurant they opened forty years ago when feminism was still in its early years.

In the heart of the American Midwest, three women take on entrenched political systems in their fight to reshape local politics on their own terms.

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilisation; the factors of decadence - luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition - are constant. The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Filmmakers question why an unarmed African American teenager was fatally shot by a white police officer.

Manipur, a volatile border state in northeast India, defies gun violence, trafficking and HIV/AIDS through love of America's National Pastime - or as Babe Ruth called it "the only real game in the world."