Have you seen the trailer yet for And So It Begins? It's a joyful, soul-feeding film about the fight to protect democracy. And it's currently streaming for free on PBS!
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ESPN drops Spike Lee’s docuseries on Colin Kaepernick, network and filmmaker say https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/espn-spike-lee-colin-kaepernick-docuseries #Television&radio #ColinKaepernick #Documentary #Television #SpikeLee #USsports #Culture #USnews #Sport #ESPN #NFL
‘SNL50’ EP Morgan Neville On More Cowbell And How ‘Saturday Night Live’ Nearly Met Its Demise
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Some comfy music documentary on BBC Two 
As a child in #Vietnam , Thao’s mother often rescued #ants from bowls of sugar water. Years later they would return the favour.
Boat People is an #animated #documentary that uses a striking metaphor to trace one family’s flight across the turbulent waters of history.
How do you raise a child when your own mother left you behind? Best known for the spoken word series #DefPoetryJam and her acclaimed solo show #MotherStruck! , #JamaicanAmerican #poet and #LGBTQ+ #activist Staceyann Chin embarks on a winding, emotionally raw journey to find the woman who disappeared from her life. From #Brooklyn to #Montreal , from #Cologne to #Kingston , she confronts buried pain, seeks elusive answers and ultimately embraces the radical act of #forgiveness. Alongside her daughter, she redefines home, healing, and the very meaning of #motherhood.
A Mother Apart is a powerful testament to #resilience , #reconciliation , and the #courage to break cycles of neglect.
Told entirely from a #ChildsPerspective, Ninan Auassat: We, the Children is a powerful and immersive #documentary that reveals the dreams of a new generation ready to take flight. Renowned for her intimate and compelling films, director Kim O’Bomsawin takes us deep into the world of #IndigenousYouth , capturing the stories of #children from the #Atikamekw , #EeyouCree and #Innu Nations over a period of more than six years. Without adult narration or expert commentary, the film offers an unfiltered look at #childhood as it unfolds, from everyday life to defining moments on the path to #adulthood. It’s a bold cinematic statement—one that gives space to a generation eager to be heard. Their voices ring out, not just as personal stories, but as a call to action, demanding recognition and the chance to thrive on their own terms.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/ninan-auassat-nous-les-enfants-english-version/
Once named “Cuba’s youngest soldier” in a propaganda stunt, #filmmaker Tamara Segura returns to her native country to untangle the painful legacy of her father’s #alcoholism and the lasting impact of the #CubanRevolution. Through intimate interviews and personal archives, Seguridad reveals a family’s hidden struggles and an era’s deep scars.
Every Saturday, Katherine and her mother, Frances, share a cherished routine: thrifting, browsing the hardware store and working side by side on their intricate miniature-house projects. From England to Hong Kong to Calgary, and finally to Whitehorse, Yukon, they’ve built a full and joyful life together defying the lifelong doubts others cast on what a child with an #IntellectualDisability can achieve.
Directed by Jessica Hall, Saturday is a tender tribute to the filmmaker’s sister and mother, blending present-day moments with intimate home movies that trace their #immigration journey and family history. With warmth, creativity and quiet resilience, the film celebrates Katherine’s independence and the powerful bond between mother and daughter. It offers a moving sense of hope—for every child whose unique qualities are seen, supported and nurtured.
In the fall of 1985, a small group of #Haida people stood on a muddy #logging road on #LyellIsland —and refused to move. What followed was a landmark act of peaceful #resistance that helped spark a nationwide reckoning around land, #sovereignty and #environmental #justice. Drawing from over a hundred hours of electrifying #archival footage, The Stand immerses us in the tension, #courage and quiet #humanity of that moment.
Directed by Christopher Auchter (Now Is the Time), the film honours the #Elders , #activists and supernatural spirits who helped shape a new future for the #HaidaNation — and for all of #Canada.
Parade: #Queer Acts of #Love & #Resistance is a bold and unflinching documentary that charts the rise of Canada’s #2SLGBTQI+ rights movement through powerful first-person testimony and rarely seen archival footage. From drag shows and community organizing to police raids and protests on Parliament Hill, the film honours the elders and #activists whose defiance helped shape a more #inclusive society. Director Noam Gonick brings audiences to the frontlines of a decades-long struggle, reminding us that the rights hard-won through #grassroots #resistance are far from guaranteed. At once enraging, hopeful and celebratory, Parade is a vital reminder of queer resilience and a rallying cry for renewed #solidarity today.
On the night of a family wedding in a village in #India , Ranjit’s 13-year-old daughter is abducted and sexually assaulted by three men. Ranjit takes on the fight of his life when he demands the men be brought to #justice. With tremendous access to all facets of this story, To Kill a Tiger charts the emotional journey of an ordinary man thrown into extraordinary circumstances—a #father whose love for his #daughter forces a social reckoning that will reverberate for years to come.
Raised in a refugee camp in the #WestBank while her mother was in an Israeli prison, Walaa is determined to become one of the few #women in the #Palestinian Security Forces—not easy for a #girl who breaks all the rules. Following Walaa from the ages of 15 to 21 with an intimate POV, What Walaa Wants tells the compelling story of a defiant young girl who navigates formidable obstacles, disproving the negative predictions from her surroundings and the world at large.
In this feature #documentary , a #Chilean #filmmaker returns to the motherland for the first time in 23 years. Time is passing. A generation of young Chileans has grown up with no knowledge of the facts surrounding the #MilitaryCoup of September 11, 1973. In his suitcase, The #BattleOfChile his 3-part #cinéma vérité chronicle of the #political tensions in #Chile in 1973 and of the violent #counterrevolution against the democratically elected government of #SalvadorAllende. His documentary toured the world but was never seen in Chile. Discreetly, he shows it to his friends and a small group of students. After the screening, the young people are in a state of shock. They have an urgent need to know the truth, for it is they who must build the Chile of tomorrow. In #Spanish with English subtitles
For years, Julius Arile and Robert Matanda thrive among the bands of warriors that terrorize the North #Kenyan countryside. Stealing cattle, raiding and running from the police is the only life they know. So when both warriors suddenly disappear from the bush, many assume they are dead or have been arrested. Instead, they trade in their rifles for sneakers—in the hopes of making it big as professional #MarathonRunners.
This #documentary from Min Sook Lee follows a #poverty stricken father from Central #Mexico along with several of his countrymen, as they make their annual migration to southern #Ontario to pick tomatoes. For 8 months a year, the town's population absorbs 4,000 #MigrantWorkers who toil under conditions, and for wages, that no local would accept. Yet despite a fear of repercussions, the workers voice their desire for dignity and respect.
#Boys living in #poverty across the world tell us of their lives, amusements and sometimes their hopes. Boys, Toys and the Big Blue Marble appraises #childhoods destroyed by #slavery , #criminality , #war, #SexualExploitation and human stupidity.
#Hopscotch is universal. #Girls around the world trace squares on the ground, then hop through them, trying hard to reach the end. Girls share other interests too; they all like to talk about school, what they want to be when they grow up, who they will marry, how many children they will have, their hopes for a better life for themselves and their family.
But all too often, through poverty, perversion, spite, ignorance or superstition, adults shatter these dreams by denying girls the right to an education, entering them into forced labour, subjecting them to mutilation, sexual abuse and other injustices.
Soni, Kamlesh, Mou, Yui, Dalal, Esmeralda, Fatou, Adiaratou, Safi and Maude range in age from 8 to 14. Some are frail, some strong; all are beautiful. Whether they live in #India #Thailand #Yemen #Peru #BurkinaFaso or #Haiti , they all speak of having much of their #childhood stolen from them. Because they are girls. With subtitles.
This feature #documentary offers a shocking look at the living and working conditions of #Haitian agricultural laborers in the #DominicanRepublic. Each year, some 20,000 #workers cross the border to cut sugar cane, lured by promises of good money. Instead, they toil up to 14 hours per day and live in unhealthy, cramped camps without running water, electricity, medical or educational facilities.
This short #documentary highlights how the mechanism of #discrimination prevents foreign-trained #doctors from practicing in #Canada – even after they've received their #Canadian qualifications. Every year, scores of these doctors are turned down for the residencies they need in order to practice – and many of those residencies stay vacant. Through interviews with #medical professionals and #HumanRights advocates it becomes clear that #SystemicRacism is to blame. Strikingly, several doctors interviewed for this film would not speak on camera, fearing repercussions from the medical establishment. What is the real problem: the incompetence of foreign-trained doctors or the #injustice of the system?
