Director: Ava DuVernay is a Black filmmaker, screenwriter, and director who became the first Black woman to win the Best Director Prize at Sundance and to be nominated for a Best Director Golden Globe. She's known for centering stories of racial justice and has become one of the most influential voices in cinema. Synopsis: This documentary explores the intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States. Named after the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery except as punishment for crime, DuVernay traces how this loophole has been exploited to continue the oppression of Black Americans through convict leasing, Jim Crow laws, the war on drugs, and today's prison industrial complex. The film features scholars, activists, and politicians explaining how systems evolved to maintain racial control even after slavery's official end. Essential viewing for understanding systemic racism and how institutions perpetuate inequality.

Directors: Sabaah Folayan is a Black filmmaker and activist, and Damon Davis is a Black interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and activist from St. Louis. Both were participants in the Ferguson uprising and wanted to tell the story from the community's perspective rather than through mainstream media's lens. Synopsis: This documentary takes viewers to the front lines of the Ferguson, Missouri uprising following the killing of Michael Brown by police in 2014. Unlike news coverage that focused on "riots," this film shows the organized resistance, community care, and sustained organizing that emerged. It follows activists like Brittany Ferrell and Alexis Templeton as they build a movement, creating the blueprint for what would become a national conversation about police violence and Black lives. The film demonstrates what grassroots organizing actually looks like - messy, sustained, community-driven, and powerful.

Directors: James LeBrecht is a disabled filmmaker, sound designer, and disability rights activist who attended Camp Jened as a teen. Nicole Newnham is a filmmaker known for documenting social justice movements. This film represents intersectional justice work, showing how disability rights connects to all liberation movements. Synopsis: This documentary starts at a summer camp in the Catskills in the 1970s where teens with disabilities experienced radical acceptance and community for the first time. It then follows these campers as they become the architects of the disability rights movement, leading to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The film shows how movements are built through relationships, persistence, and joy - not just anger. It's a powerful example of how marginalized communities organize themselves, demand dignity, and transform systems. Perfect for understanding intersectionality and how justice movements support and learn from each other.

Directors: Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler Synopsis: Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, criminal defense and civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America. The film centers on Robinson's powerful Juneteenth 2018 presentation at New York City's Town Hall Theater, which he developed over ten years of research after initially trying to help his nephew understand and deal with the challenges of racism in America.

Directors: Kenny Leon and Reinaldo Marcus Green The series examines the legacy of the 14th Amendment from its ratification following the Civil War through present-day struggles for equality. Each episode focuses on a different theme and marginalized group's fight for rights under this constitutional amendment. Using a unique theatrical approach, celebrated actors including Mahershala Ali, Sterling K. Brown, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane, Pedro Pascal, Laverne Cox, and Courtney B. Vance perform dramatic readings from historical documents, speeches, letters, and diaries of key figures in American civil rights history.

Director: Jonathan Clay The documentary follows Professor Johan Rockström's scientific journey and groundbreaking research identifying nine critical planetary boundaries that define a "safe operating space" for humanity. These boundaries include climate change, biodiversity loss, land-system change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows (nitrogen and phosphorus), ocean acidification, atmospheric aerosol loading, stratospheric ozone depletion, and novel entities (chemical pollution). The film reveals that humanity has already crossed several of these boundaries, pushing Earth into dangerous territory.