This documentary follows 13 Syrian women around Britain on their theatre tour of The Trojan Women, documenting the women's reactions to the U.K and the British, and the British audience's reactions to their play. Elegantly shot, the film shows the heart of what it means to become a refugee…
In the 1950s and 1960s, the New York Herald Tribune World Youth Forum gathered 30 bright teenagers from around the globe to learn about America. They also discussed religion, women's rights, and world peace on television. Now, 62 years after their 1959 TV broadcast, filmmaker Richard Hall and historian…
See more at: http://thewormisturning.com “We’re eating World War 2's leftovers!” says Vandana Shiva. For the past 70 years chemical agriculture has been the biggest war on earth, as agriculture is the largest activity on the planet. This is the story of how corporate agribusiness…
How do you move past the worst thing to ever happen in your life? In 1985, Kathleen lost her brother Eddie, an American soldier, at the hands of the Red Army Faction (RAF), a German leftist terrorist organization. Now, decades later, she decides to seek out the group responsible for his murder. “The…
Criminologist Dr. Dan Philipp has devoted his career to treating sexual offenders. The intense encounter with evil has not shaken his belief in the basic humanity of even the worst criminals. "Our attitude towards sex offenders lacks compassion because we fear we resemble them," he says. At…
In winter Jane scours the beaches for natural and man made wreckage that washes ashore from the Atlantic Ocean, the shores of America, fishing vessels and Cornish communities nearby. This was the subject of the documentary film she made with Nick Darke, THE WRECKING SEASON… The film is written…
Amidst growing international concern about human trafficking, a nonprofit organization named COSA was founded in 2005 by Mickey Choothesa with the stated mission of serving as a refuge for at-risk and trafficked girls in Northern Thailand. Mickey, a self-described war photographer-turned-activist with…
My childhood yard may appear like another shabby parking space in a Jerusalem ultra-orthodox neighborhood. To me, it is the landscape of the only home I have ever known. The heroes of my yard are: my wife, Re'ut, who hate the yard and feel persecuted by the ultraorthodox ; forty-four-year old…
** Educators: please email orders@wmm.com for access. A film by Lucille Rhodes and Margaret Murphy 1978 | 52 minutes | Color -- A three volume set of film portraits--Muriel Rukeyser, Alice Neel and Anna Sokolow. The poetry, painting, and dance of these three women is not artistic purism, but the…
"They Are We" Nearly 200 years after a family was split by the transatlantic slave trade, they were, remarkably reunited. In Central Cuba, proud members of the Ganga-Longoba, a small Afro-Cuban ethnic group, have kept their unique heritage alive. Incredibly, through decades of brutal enslavement,…
*Info updated to reflect the fast-moving events in Myanmar happening as of Feb. 1, 2021: Shot clandestinely over a two year period, this film provides a rare look into the second most isolated country on the planet held in a stasis by a brutal military regime for almost a half century. From over 100…
They Call Me Dr. Miami is a fascinating look at America’s most famous plastic surgeon. We witness how he grapples with the reality of selfie culture, the controversy his videos stir up, and his status as a social media superstar, and how he fights to balance this with being a devoted husband, a…
