documentaries

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Filmed during the battle of Kobanî, this report reveals the women at the heart of the fight against IS. With stoical perseverance and the aid of American air...

I’m an enthusiast for public transit. Everyone buying two tons of steel and glass is simply not a sustainable transportation plan. It’s helped bring us to the looming collapse of what’s quaintly called ‘western civilization’....

Getting pregnant out of wedlock was long seen as a disgrace in Catholic Ireland. By 1998, more than 50,000 women had had their babies taken away and given up for adoption. Many of these children are now trying to trace their birth mothers....

This is a documentary about single-room occupancy (SRO) hotels — places where you rent a room, but the toilet and shower are down the hall, and shared with all the other tenants. SRO’s can be a huge help in fighting homelessness, because the rooms are so much cheaper than full-fledged apartments....

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On a July day in 1990, a confrontation propelled First Nations issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Quebec, into the international spotlight. Director Alanis Obomsawin spent 78 nerve-wracking days and nights filming the armed stand-off between the Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) People, the Quebec police and the Canadian...

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This excellent documentary takes us into another world; the world of rogue loggers and firefighters turned eco-warriors. The story begins as an arsonist burns 9000 acres of protected old-growth public forest in Oregon that can not be logged unless it burns. To stop the proposed “salvage” logging of this incredible ancient...

In the summer of 2017, in the Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale, over 300 tenants living across 12 apartment buildings went on rent strike to protest a wave of rent increases that would have displaced members of their community. Through months of organizing and a series of escalating actions, working-class people took on the...