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Films that Explore Human Rights Themes

Children’s Rights

Central Station (For), Child Soldier (Doc), Children Underground (Doc), The Color of Paradise (For), Diary of Anne Frank Pixote (For), Salaam Bombay (For), Streetwise (Doc), Stolen Children (For), A Time of Drunken Horses (For)

Civil Rights

America’s Civil Rights Movement (1), Citizenship: Would You Pass? (2),

Death Penalty

Daniel Dead Man Walking, The Green Mile, In Cold Blood, Monster’s Ball, The Next Step (3), Paths of Glory, A Short Film about Killing (For), The Thin Blue Line (Doc)

Disappearances

Missing, The Official Story (For), Political Killings and Disappearances (3), Where is Miguel? (Doc) (4)

Economic and Labor Rights

American Family, Bicycle Thief, Bread and Roses, Downsize This Germinal (For), The Grapes of Wrath, Human Resources (For), La Ciudad, Life and Debt (Doc), Love and Diane (Doc), Matewan, Modern Times, Norma Rae, Profit and Nothing But! (Doc), Roger and Me, Salt of the Earth

Extra-Judicial Killing

Cry Freedom, Hotel Terminus (For, Doc), The Oxbow Incident, Romero

Gender and Sexual Orientation

The Circle (For), Daughters of the Dust, The Day I Became a Woman (For), Just Before Nightfall (For), Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, Twilight of the Golds

General Rights Violations

1984, Beyond Rangoon, Israel & the Occupied Territories (3), A Memory of Justice (Doc), Salvador School of the Assassins (Doc), THX1138, A World Apart, The Year of Living Dangerously, Yol (For), Z

Genocide

Ararat (For), Forsaken Cries: The Story of Rwanda (3), The Killing Fields, Korczak (For), The Music Box Night and Fog (For, Doc), The Pawnbroker, Playing for Time, Schindler’s List, Shoah (Doc), Welcome to Sarajevo [Untitled], Seth Kramer

Globalization

The Big One, Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy (4)

Human Rights

UDHR animated video (3)

Indigenous Peoples 

Burning Season, Dances with Wolves, Incident at Oglala (Doc), The Mission, Powwow Highway, Smoke Signals

Minority Rights

Amistad, Four Little Girls (Doc), Gentlemen’s Agreement, Ghosts of Mississippi, Malcolm X, Sri Lanka: A Nation in Anguish (3), To Kill a Mockingbird, Who Killed Vincent Chin? (Doc) (4)

Refugees

Baran (For), Bolivia (For), Energy of a Nation: Immigrants in America (5), Lamerica (For), El Norte, To Be a Refugee (6), To Feel at Home (6), The Truce (For), A Well-Founded Fear (Doc) (4)

Tolerance

Carly (6), Shadow of Hate (1)

Torture

The Battle of Algiers (For), Death and the Maiden, In the Name of the Father, Shadowlands, State of Siege (For), Torture in the 80’s (3)

“For” denotes foreign film and “Doc” denotes documentary.

Accessing films: Many of the films may be rented at local video stores. Films listed with a number can be obtained from the organization indicated as follows:

(1) – Available free of charge from Teaching Tolerance

(2) – Available for sale from the Center for Democracy and Citizenship

(3) - Available for sale from Amnesty Int’l USA

(4) – Available for sale from PBS

(5) – Available for sale from The Advocates for Human Rights

(6) – Available free of charge from UNHCR