Films

Take your pick from our library of critically-acclaimed feature films and independent documentaries. If you feel engaged, enraged, intrigued or inspired by one of our films, find out more about the issues and take action.
Black Gold

Black Gold

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As westerners revel in designer lattes and cappuccinos, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice. In this eye-opening expose of the multi-billion dollar industry, Black Gold traces one man's fight for a fair price.
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Cold Waves

Cold Waves

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Historical drama centred around the enthralling story of the CIA-backed Radio Free Europe whose broadcasts helped overthrow Ceausescu's Romania in the 1980s. Old-school media power in full effect
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Fighting The Silence

Fighting The Silence

£2.49

During the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s seven year war, more then 80.000 women and girls were raped.  “Fighting the Silence” tells the story of ordinary women and men struggling to change their society. Husbands talk of the pressures that led them to abandon their wives.
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In Prison My Whole Life

In Prison My Whole Life

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The story of Mumia Abu-Jamal; political activist, ex-Black Panther, death row inmate – and the only man whose story could get Noam Chomsky and Snoop Dogg to appear in the same film.
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In The Land of The Free

In The Land of The Free

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Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King spent almost a century between them in solitary confinement in Angola, the Louisiana State penitentiary. They are known as the Angola 3.
Herman and Albert are still in solitary confinement after thirty seven years. How could this be? In America. Today.
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In This World

In This World

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This multi-award-winning docudrama follows Jamal and Enayatullah, two Afghan refugees willing to risk everything in hope of a better life. Their epic journey over deserts and mountains, through cities and tiny villages, brings to life the hell experienced by hundreds of thousands refugees each year.
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La Forteresse

La Forteresse

£2.99

Devoted to the daily life at a centre for the registration of asylum seekers, 'La Forteresse' has helped to expand the debate on asylum in Switzerland. Since it was awarded the Léopard d'or award at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2008, the sensitive subject matter as well as the sensitive manner in which Fernand Melgar filmed it have brought it international recognition.
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Machan

Machan

£2.99

Living under impossible pressures on the margins of society, a group of desperate slum dwellers find an invitation to a handball tournament in Bavaria. The one way ticket to the West could be the answer to their prayers and a solution to all their problems.
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McLibel

McLibel

£2.49

The inspirational story of the postman and the gardener who took on the might of McDonald's. Guess who won. When two penniless activists dared to badmouth the Big Mac, the fast food corporation's legal machine bit off more than it could chew.
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No One Knows About Persian Cats

No One Knows About Persian Cats

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This drama follows a young boy and a young girl as they plan to launch a music group shortly after being released from prison. Both characters travel to Tehran where they meet other underground rock musicians and attempt to convince them to leave Iran. However, their dreams to flee to Europe in order to play music freely seem improbable without money or a passport.
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Oil Spill: The Exxon Valdez Disaster

Oil Spill: The Exxon Valdez Disaster

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20 years on, John Akomfrah's fascinating documentary investigates the cause of the disaster. With interviews from crewmembers who were aboard the super tanker that night, fisherman and environmental activists who had continually warned of such a disaster. 
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Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

£2.49

How do you bring a brutal dictator and violent armed rebels to the negotiating table? A group of imaginative Liberian women started their search for answers in the bedroom ... and ended it camped on the steps of the presidential mansion.

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The Age Of Stupid

The Age Of Stupid

£2.99

Set on a post apocalyptic planet earth ravaged by the effects of climate change, this smash hit docudrama is an imaginative and entertaining treatment of perhaps the most important issue facing mankind today.
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The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros

£2.49

Shot in the backstreets of Sampaloc, Manila, this is a bittersweet tale of adolescence that has captured the hearts of audiences around the globe. An all-too-rare examination of pre-pubescent sexual anxiety: Intelligent and unflinchingly honest.
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The Cats of Mirikitani

The Cats of Mirikitani

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This is the story of octagenarian Jimmy Mirikitani, a rare artistic talent whose story has taken him from Hiroshima, to WWII internment camps, to homelessness on the streets of New York in the shadow of 9/11
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The Cove

The Cove

£2.99

Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taiji, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health. The truth of THE COVE comes to the fore in an act of covert filmmaking that turns a documentary into a gripping action-adventure thriller and a heart-pounding call for help from the worlds oceans.
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The End of The Line

The End of The Line

£2.99

We see firsthand the effects of our global love affair with fish as food. The film examines the imminent extinction of bluefin tuna, brought on by increasing western demand for sushi and the impact on marine life resulting in huge overpopulation of jellyfish.
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What About Me?

What About Me?

£2.49

Chinese rappers, Gabonese Pygmies, Tuvan throat singers and, er, Will Young provide a pounding soundtrack as God, Sex, Death and Money unravel around twelve intertwined stories.
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Workingman's Death

Workingman's Death

£2.49

Brutal yet beautiful documentary connecting the desperate tales of a coalminer in Ukraine, a slaughterhouse worker in Nigeria, a sulphur miner in Indonesia, a ship-breaker in Pakistan and a steel worker in China. Dirty work, exquisitely captured.
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XXY

XXY

£2.49

Highly acclaimed and the subject of much debate, XXY is the intimate coming-of-age portrayal of a teenager torn between the love of her parents, her own personal desires, and the daunting, inevitable path into adulthood
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