HUMAN RIGHTS THEMED MOVIES

A striking political activist and refugee from Paraguay escapes to Paris and falls in love with a rich law student chang...

As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they gr...

Journalist Shiori Ito embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosec...

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalen...

Sorn, an ethnic Shan sex worker, tries to build a future in Chiang Mai, Thailand, as a refugee far from home, but he is ...

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husba...

A poor North Korean fisherman finds himself an accidental defector, and is groomed to be a spy by an ambitious South Kor...

The life of Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, from his time in the Resistance in WWII to his fights against poverty an...

Though both the historical and modern-day persecution of Armenians and other Christians is relatively uncovered in the m...

The story of four pioneering lesbian politicians and the battles they fought to pass a wide range of anti-discrimination...

Mother Teresa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is considered one of the greatest humanitarians of modern times. Her...

When a feminist filmmaker sets out to document the mysterious and polarizing world of the Men’s Rights Movement, she beg...

With "sealfies" and social media, a new tech-savvy generation of Inuit is wading into the world of activism, using humou...

In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not li...

Inspired by a true story, this drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Despite the Act, th...

When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the country’s entire judicial ...

For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native lands, on show as e...

The powerful and inspiring true story of the controversial human rights campaigner whose provocative acts of civil diso ...

A story based on real-life human-rights and criminal lawyer, Shahid Azmi, who was slain while defending the wrongly accu...

Anthology film of six shorts by leading Korean directors. Park Chan-Wook, tackles racial prejudice and the economic expl...