Promises (2001), The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987), Paragraph 175 (2000), A Regular Woman (2019), Long Night's Journey Into Day (2000), S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003), Lake of Fire (2006), The Laramie Project (2002) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Human Rights movies.
Storyline: Rather than focusing on political events, the seven children featured in "Promises" offer a compelling human portrait of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. The film draws viewers into the hearts and minds of Jerusalem's children by giving voice to those captured by the region's hatreds as well as those able to transcend them. Audiences will engage with Palestinian and Israeli kids, coming to know them as multi-dimensional people, not as stereotypes perpetuated by the mainstream media.
Plot Keywords: documentary, conflict, children, peace, war, jewish, dialogue ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jobless and desperate, World War I veteran Robert Eliot Burns (Val Kilmer) is arrested for theft and sentenced to work on a prison chain gang. Eager to get away from brutal Warden Hardy (Charles Durning), Burns busts out of jail. Suddenly free, he woos foxy stranger Emily Del Pino Pacheco (Sonia Braga). Soon, though, the romance sours, and, without cover from Emily, Burns is left with nowhere to hide. To his dismay, he might just find himself making a return journey to Hardy's chain gang.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, crime, history, prison, true story, social injustice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman chronicle the persecution of homosexuals under the Third Reich. Narrated by Rupert Everett.
Plot Keywords: history, documentary, nazi, holocaust, homosexuality, persecution, world war ii ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A German woman of Turkish descent struggles to achieve the life she wants. Faced by opposition and threats from her family, she leaves.
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, based on a true story, female, social issues, domestic violence, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Following the end of apartheid in South Africa during the 1990s, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to pursue social justice, and this acclaimed documentary focuses on some of the stories that emerged from the organization's cases. Although renowned leader Bishop Desmond Tutu appears, the film focuses primarily on everyday people, both white and black, who committed appalling crimes during apartheid and came to the commission seeking forgiveness.
Plot Keywords: documentary, apartheid, south africa, human rights, justice, forgiveness, historical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary, directed by a survivor of the genocide, chronicles the systematized murder perpetuated by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, specifically the torture and killing of the educated classes in the notorious S-21 prison, which is now a museum. But this film is not about statistics and generalized history. Instead, it focuses on two survivors who return to the prison, coming face-to-face with some of the guards who insist that they were only following bureaucratic orders.
Plot Keywords: documentary, genocide, history, war crimes, survivors, prison, torture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An unflinching documentary shot in black and white, this film focuses on the heated topic of abortion. Directed by British-born filmmaker Tony Kaye, the production depicts the heated ongoing abortion debate in America, and features graphic footage of actual medical procedures. Presenting people on both pro-choice and pro-life sides of the issue, the documentary includes interviews with philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky, anti-abortion activist Randall Terry and numerous others.
Plot Keywords: controversy, documentary, morality, religion, politics, social issue, ethics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two young men face murder charges for the beating of Matthew Shepard, a homosexual student at the University of Wyoming.
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, based on true events, social issues, hate crime, lgbtq+, homosexuality ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Indigenous women unite to stop the oil pipeline that threatens their land, water, and very existence.
Plot Keywords: documentary, environmental, social movement, protest, female leadership, activism, climate change ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During the 1956 Olympic games the Hungarian and Russian water-polo teams face off.
Plot Keywords: history, war, revolution, political, romance, drama, sports ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An African teacher flees his violent country for France, where he falls in love with a local woman.
Plot Keywords: immigration, refugees, france, family, love, survival, cultural clash ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Inspired by the true events of the 1983 breakout of 38 Irish Republican prisoners from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.
Plot Keywords: prison, escape, protest, historical, true story, uk, conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmakers Pippa Scott and Oreet Rees document the exploitation of the Congo by Belgium's King Leopold II.
Plot Keywords: documentary, history, colonialism, belgium, human rights, exploitation, imperialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Following the stories of seven exonerated prisoners, "After Innocence" documents how DNA evidence led to the release of these wrongfully imprisoned, innocent men. Free after years -- and in some cases decades -- behind bars and on death row, these men struggle to transition back into society with inadequate support from the judicial system that wronged them. "After Innocence" brings to light flaws in the criminal justice system and the need for reform.
Plot Keywords: documentary, justice, wrongful conviction, law, social justice, human rights, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this documentary, homosexual filmmaker Arthur Dong interviews men who were imprisoned for slaying gays. Dong, who was physically attacked because of his own sexuality in the 1970s, tries to ascertain the convicts' motives -- why they would commit such heinous crimes. Some prisoners express remorse for their acts of violence, while others believe the murders they committed were justified. The interviewees include a U.S. military officer, a devout Christian and a petty thief.
Plot Keywords: documentary, crime, murder, true story, homosexuality, hate crime, usa ...
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