Legacy of Torture: The War Against the Black Liberation Movement / 2006

Legacy of Torture chronicles a case that began in 1971 when thirteen alleged “Black militants” were arrested and tortured to obtain confessions. In 1975, a Federal Court in San Francisco threw out all of the evidence obtained in New Orleans. 34 years later, in 2005, two lead San Francisco Police Department investigators from over 30 years ago, along with FBI agents, have re-opened the case. Rather than submit to proceedings they felt were abusive of the law and the Constitution, five men chose to stand in contempt of court and were sent to jail. They were released when the Grand Jury term expired, but have been told by prosecutors that "it isn't over yet."

O Happy Day: The Early Days of Black Gay Liberation / 1996

The seminal short film O Happy Day imagines the early days of gay liberation for black gay men. Lofton juxtaposes images of black men from late 60s and early 70s films with images of Black Panther Party demonstrations, as a way of intentionally revising history. The soundtrack is punctuated by a 1970 quotation from Black Panther leader Huey Newton: "There's nothing to say that a homosexual cannot also be a revolutionary. Quite on the contrary, maybe a homosexual could be the most revolutionary..." O Happy Day blurs the difference between the Black Power movement and the Gay Power movement, and instead focuses on the similarities between the two.

Malcolm X Liberation University / 1969

The 1960s black student movement at Duke University evolved into a separate institution to study and engage with the history and culture of the African diaspora. This film was produced for the National Educational Television (WNET) Black Journal.

Adina Howard 20: A Story of Sexual Liberation / 2015

In 1995, Adina Howard made waves in the world of music with her hit song “Freak Like Me.” Never before had a solo R&B female artist made such a bold and controlling stance sexually through song. Along with becoming one of the highest selling singles and most played music videos on MTV and BET in 1995, Adina Howard’s performance allowed young women of color and future recording artist to express their sexuality without shame. “Adina Howard 20: A Story of Sexual Liberation” shares Adina’s story through her own words as well as the impact that she made during the 1990s and thereafter. Adina speaks on her relationship with Tupac Shakur, the banning of her music video from BET, landing a cameo role in the movie “Waiting to Exhale,” her encounter with legendary vocalist Nancy Wilson, working with Hollywood giants Jackie Chan and Jamie Foxx and the sudden halt to her stardom due to her comments about record exec Sylvia Rhone.

The Liberation / 2018

Washington DC Filmmakers Christoph Green and Brendan Canty (Fugazi) embed themselves in a class of recovering addicts, former drug dealers, and felons, all going through the DC Central Kitchen Culinary Training Program. Three months of hardcore therapy every morning and Knife Skills every afternoon.

Is This Liberation? /

A conversation about lusting after Jesus. A desperate cry to the Holy Mother. A movie marathon of overtly sexual films. Songs about God and destroying the world. Drug induced erotic fantasies of Mothman. In Is This Liberation, sex, trauma, monster erotica, religion, movies, pain, and punk rock collide enroute to sexual liberation.

A Certain Liberation / 2003

A woman who had been raped and whose family wiped out by the collaborators of the occupying forces during the bloody "liberation war" of Bangladesh in 1971 now roams the streets, 30 years later, as a mad person.

Stan Brakhage's Liberation / 2012

Direct film has lost the material properties, and the original form has dissolved. By finding that form again, and retrieving its original properties, I am to liberate Stan Brakhage, the symbol of Direct Film that is so smeared upon history. This project will be recorded as the first experiment of Direct technique that has ventured into the history of media art with 'Direct File' and 'Direct Video', both of which are offered as new concepts. Commission Work for

Black Man's Volunteer Army of Liberation / 1970

Starting from a failed Black Panther Party convention (in Washington D.C., November 1970) for a constitution based on their 10-point programme, the film analyses the social condition of black communities. It shows especially the self-help of the blacks in their fight against social repression.

Scream of Liberation / 1995

[Overview Courtesy of Lux Online] In French this is called a 'Youyou', a sound made by women mainly to celebrates happy occasions but also was used during the Algerian war of liberation by women as a weapon against French soldiers. Issues of body representation are here explored by using a part of the body.

Un été 44 - La libération / 2004

Liberation Unit / 2014

On May 4th, 1945, the 71st Division of the Third Army liberated Gunskirchen Lager, a carefully concealed German concentration camp north of Lambach, Austria. In recent years, many survivors of Gunskirchen have joined with the 71st Division for an annual reunion. As time passes, soldiers and survivors want their stories told. "Liberation Unit" details the horrors of that experience for everyone involved. The film's main message is to validate the occurrence of the Holocaust and remind people that the liberties we experience today came at a cost to millions.

Alligator Liberation / 2002

Agitators try and release Wallygator back into the wild

Animal Liberation: The Movie / 1993

Animal Liberation: The Movie

Animal Liberation 2: The Sequel / 1995

This video has been produced by various individuals to complement the original video "Animal Liberation - The Movie (1993)" and show how animal liberation has developed into the 90s'. Every year billions of animal are killed in laboratories, imprisoned in factory farms and slaughtered in abattoirs, killed for pleasure by hunters, shooters and anglers. So some of people are prepared to go beyond the law. Nearly 200 people have been imprisoned since the 80s. The ALF have closed down many vivisection laboratories and other establishments. This video was dedicated to those people who have given their lives and freedom in the name of animal liberation.

Being Women in Japan: Liberation within My Family / 1974

Being Women in Japan documents the recovery of Michishita’s sister from brain surgery, which hospitalized her for four months. Michishita's interest was not only in the personal struggle of her sister to regain her health, but also in how this crisis caused a major rupture in the daily life of her sister's family.

Une Libération / 2015

On the eve of the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation during World War Two, Juliet, a female American resistance member, risks her life by descending into the underground tunnels of Paris to deliver a secret message. However, a final deadly encounter with a pair of German deserters threatens to destroy the very thing she has been fighting for.

La Face cachée de la Libération / 2014

Heritage Minutes: Liberation of the Netherlands / 2020

Between 1944 and 1945, the Canadian Army was given the important yet deadly task of liberating the Netherlands.

Under the Ground: The Story of Liberation News Service / 2021

Called the 'AP of the underground press,' Liberation News Service printed news from hundreds of underground papers in the '60s and '70s. LNS reporters were 'soldiers of the revolution who happened to use typewriters' providing news to a generation of readers ignored by the mainstream press. The film includes interviews with former staffers, journalists, and activists, as well as archival footage.