10 Human Rights Movies Everyone Should Watch

Maple had a trailblazing career as a cinematographer and director in the film industry. “Will” stars Obaka Adedunyo and Loretta Devine, contains some graphic depictions of addiction but also a message of hope and resilience. Scenes filmed in early 1980s Harlem depicting its spaces and vibrant street life add to the film’s importance as an invaluable cultural record. Preserved from material in the Jessie Maple Patton collection at the Black Film Center & Archive at Indiana University. A 4k digital restoration was done by the Black Film Center & Archive with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture and the Center for African American Media Arts.

Human Rights Film Festival Berlin

It’s named after the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, which abolished slavery. IamUnspoken.com The film argues that a new form of slavery emerged in the form of Jim Crow laws, the war on drugs, and the prison-industrial complex. These types of systems affect people of color at a disproportionate rate by keeping them oppressed and trapped in cycles of poverty and incarceration.

Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival

• A 4k digital restoration was done by the Black Film Center & Archive with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture and the Center for African American Media Arts.
• The festival’s core theme is human dignity (Karama is Arabic for dignity).
• “Coded Bias” digs into this question, as well as other issues surrounding artificial intelligence and human rights.
• It is focused on human rights themes with a special emphasis on women’s and children’s rights, due to the thematic focus of it’s organising NGO, Akifra e.V.
• “Inspired by a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar (who died of tuberculosis in 1906, at the age of 33), “Compensation” takes an unusual narrative approach.

Told in stark black and white, and almost completely devoid of sentiment, the spareness of its production allows the power of its story and performances to stand out as an inspiring account of human potential and ability realized. This 2024 selections include diversity among filmmakers and in the stories depicted on screen as reflections of society. Stewart led the board in studying and recommending films across a variety of genres and eras to be considered for the registry. The selections bring the number of titles in the registry to 900.

I built our tents in Cannes like the tents in Rafah exactly. We have our own screenings, our own sound, our own audience. We make the people from Gaza to speak, the filmmakers to speak inside Cannes with the audience. And we have — as Palestinians, we have to keep telling our stories.

Having won awards for its photography and cinematography, the film wants to show viewers the impact of global warming, which turns beautiful, vibrant reefs into empty, bleached husks. Jeff Orlowski is also the director of 2012’s “Chasing Ice,” which has a similar plot featuring ice instead of coral. In her role as an MIT media researcher, Joy Buolamwini realized that many facial recognition systems didn’t recognize her face. Curious, she dug deeper and soon learned that these systems only worked when she wore a white mask and covered her dark skin. The film “Coded Bias” explores this phenomenon and uncovers how artificial technology affects minorities. There are few legal structures for AI, which flings the door open for human rights violations.

International Social Film Festival of Catalonia

Many titles named to the registry have already been preserved by the copyright holders, filmmakers or other archives. The Librarian makes the annual registry selections after conferring with the distinguished members of the National Film Preservation Board and a cadre of Library specialists. Also considered were 6,744 titles nominated by the public. Nominations for next year will be accepted through Aug. 15, 2025, at loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/nominate/. Will (1981)   In this remarkable-but-unknown micro-budget indie feature, a former basketball player struggles to overcome addiction, hoping for recovery and a second chance so he can mentor youth. “Will” is widely considered the first independent feature-length film directed by a Black woman (Jessie Maple).

I spent the night watching it and then watching it again. Explain — not often do you see a director called “the curator.” Explain what you did. Selma spans three months in 1965 as Martin Luther King Jr. planned a march for equal voting rights. Dr. King and his allies faced discrimination, death threats, and violence leading up to the iconic walk from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

It aims to promote open society, democratic values, rule-of-law, freedom of expression, political and cultural pluralism, and to expose abuse and global human rights violations through creative, quality documentaries. Document is the only dedicated international human rights documentary film festival in Scotland. Document began in 2003 and this year we will present our 17th edition of the festival.