Movies: Police brutality

A man that is a stranger, is an incredibly easy man to hate. However, walking in a stranger’s shoes, even for a short while, can transform a perceived adversary into an ally. Power is found in coming to know our neighbor’s hearts. For in the darkn...

A collaborative video and activism project between long-time community filmmaker Rebecca Garrett and Sanctuary, a church community drop-in, evolves into an unflinching documentary immersion into the world of police and security guard violence against...

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Police have been killing people in Columbus, Ohio, with near impunity for more than two decades, leaving behind a community bound together by grief – and a system that refuses to call these killings murder. In a searing indictment of the police and j...

A documentary about a case of police brutality in the 80's NYC, the killing of graffiti artist Michael Stewart...

A troubled corrections officer pays a visit to a man he’s never met to request he cook a last meal for his ex-girlfriend on death row; one that will kill her before her execution the following morning....

After her release from involuntary hospitalization, “Annie” grapples with the trauma of her confinement, all while working as a lifeguard, a job that becomes increasingly challenging as she descends deeper into despair....

In the fashion of horror satire, Two LAPD cops try to cover up a situation after killing an unarmed black teen. But things don't go as planned....

A documentary filmed from dusk to dawn during the 2020 George Floyd protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota....

When a Black man is viciously assaulted by police right outside their window, all of the guests at a dinner party seem to consider the attack unremarkable except for one....

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On 19 March 1966, a photo exhibition about the police intervention during the wedding of Beatrix and Claus opened in Amsterdam. After the opening, filmmaker Louis van Gasteren filmed how, in the distance, policemen began beating up a young man, seemi...

Finding himself trapped in a cabin in the woods with his white friends, Jay makes a call to a mysterious organization....

As two brothers watch a news cast about extra terrestrial beings, the older brother uses the opportunity to make an analogy about their world being invaded by unwelcome visitors....

Documentary about Joel da Conceição Castro, a ten years old boy killed by a police bullet in 2010....

Hundreds of thousands − perhaps even millions − of protestors have taken to the streets of Hong Kong since early June. Sparked initially by the government's plans for a controversial extradition bill, the movement has now transformed into a broader p...

In 1978 the police attacked demonstrators at the Sydney (Australia) Mardi Gras celebrations. This film details the communities' responses....

After a series of ever more daring raids on laboratories and farms to rescue what they believe are mistreated animals, a radical commune of animal liberationists find themselves under a vicious attack by the very groups they had expected the least tr...

Award winning documentary about the police tactics during the G-8 summit in Genoa in 2002 which lead to the death of one person and left many people wounded....

February 1980, young Abdelkader Lareiche was shot in the head by a building guard in a housing estate in Vitry. In a context marked by several racist crimes and a policy of security repression, his friends are mobilizing around the “Rock Against Poli...