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In Southern India, family disputes are settled by Jamaats—all male bodies which apply Islamic Sharia law to cases without allowing women to be present, even to defend themselves.
 
Delicately explored and deftly crafted, FLYING HANDS is a story of commitment and how integration and equal opportunities for everyone directly benefit the co-existence of society.
 
The Strike tells the story of a generation of California men as they endure decades of solitary confinement and, against all odds, launch the largest hunger strike in US history.
 

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A riveting portrait of a family history cast against the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution, telling the story of an upper-class woman who became a communist rebel.
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TRUXX Archival photo of protest. Source: Tourisme Montréal website.
Archival photo of protests following police raid of TRUXX and Mystique gay bars. Source: Tourisme Montréal website.

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Harry Sutherland  ·  1978  ·  19m

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Harry Sutherland  ·  1978  ·  19m

A short manifesto of collective resistance to police oppression in the wake of the historic 1977 raid on the Montreal gay bar Truxx.

UE/Wells Still
UE/Wells Still
Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn & Guillermo Brzostowski  ·  1975
Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn & Guillermo Brzostowski  ·  1975

UE/Wells follows an organizing drive by the United Electrical Workers Union at the Wells Foundry in Chicago.

Winnie Wright Still
Winnie Wright Still

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Gordon Quinn, Teena Webb, Suzanne Davenport, Greg Grieco & Betsy Martens  ·  1974  ·  12m

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Gordon Quinn, Teena Webb, Suzanne Davenport, Greg Grieco & Betsy Martens  ·  1974  ·  12m

Winnie, the daughter of a steel worker and a teacher, lives in Gage Park, a Chicago neighborhood that is changing from white to black.

Still from Viva la Causa
Still from Viva la Causa

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Teena Webb & Kartemquin Collective  ·  1974  ·  21m

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Teena Webb & Kartemquin Collective  ·  1974  ·  21m

Not just a colorful record of the making of a mural in Chicago's Pilsen community by Ray Patlan, this film traces the mural movement of the mid-1970s back to murals in Mexico.

Still from You Are On Indian Land
Still from You Are On Indian Land
Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell  ·  1969  ·  37m
Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell  ·  1969  ·  37m

The classic 1969 NFB doc that puts the audience in the middle of conflict between First Nations and police.