Justfilms Ford Foundation Movies

A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream...

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people...

A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries—and path of promise toward the American dream—Black colleges and...

An endearingly nostalgic exploration of the defiant Vietnamese new wave music scene, as well as a vulnerable and personal look at the filmmaker and...

Examining the violent death of the filmmaker’s brother and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free, this documentary...

Determined to turn unfathomable tragedy into action, the teenage survivors of Parkland, Florida catalyze a powerful, unprecedented youth movement...

An alarmingly disproportionate number of Black women are failed every year by the U.S. maternal health system. Shamony Gibson and Amber Rose Isaac...

Cuba is well known as a so-called time capsule. The place where the New World was discovered has become both a romantic vision and a warning. With...

Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces...

Fashion revolutionary Bethann Hardison looks back on her journey as a pioneering Black model, modeling agent, and activist, shining a light on an...

An exploration of the nexus of art, race, and justice through the story of art collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund who sold Roy...

Inside the ACLU, five scrappy lawyers battle against the Trump administration’s historic assault on civil liberties - from separating families...

What do the United States and Papua New Guinea have in common? They are the only countries in the world without paid family leave. American families...

A dogged family-run paper in Iowa gives citizens the scoop on forces threatening to overwhelm their precarious small-town existence.

On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising...

When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case--an activist...

Amid the surge in anti-trans legislation that Chase Strangio battles in the courtroom, he must also fight against media bias, exposing how the...

Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their...

In 1970, a group of young Puerto Rican activists took over a decrepit hospital in New York City, launching a battle for their lives, their community,...

Meet Ousmane Sembene, the African freedom fighter who used stories as his weapon.