Justfilms Ford Foundation Movies

With sharp humor and a critical sense of curiosity, comedian CJ Hunt documents the fraught removal of four Confederate monuments in New Orleans. As th...

Home to one of the region’s largest law enforcement education program, students at Horizon High School in El Paso train to become police officers and...

What do the United States and Papua New Guinea have in common? They are the only countries in the world without paid family leave. American families a...

Best friends Silvia and Beba record their lives as they dance, make music, and face an uncertain immigration process in Texas near the Mexican border.

As a visibly disabled person, filmmaker Reid Davenport is often either the subject of an unwanted gaze — gawked at by strangers — or paradoxically ren...

Boniface Mwangi is daring and audacious, and recognized as Kenya’s most provocative photojournalist. But as a father of three young children, these qu...

Foreveryone.net connects the future of the web with the little-known story of its birth. In 1989, 33-year-old computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee inve...

After an attempt to bring Syrian refugees into the predominately white New England town of Rutland, Vermont, unleashes deep partisan rancor, a longtim...

A visual journey into the mind and soul of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Navarro Scott Momaday, relating each written line to his unique Native Americ...

When two siblings undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother’s house, they embark on a magical-realist journey from her home in...

Meet Ousmane Sembene, the African freedom fighter who used stories as his weapon.

From filmmaker Dawn Porter (who earlier this year directed "John Lewis: Good Trouble"),the film explores the remarkable journey of Jordan from modest...

In 1983, a disabled Californian woman named Elizabeth Bouvia sought the “right to die,” igniting a national debate about autonomy, dignity, and the va...

The murder of indigenous activist Javier Chocobar and the removal of his community from their ancestral land in Argentina.

Three brave cheerleaders take on the NFL, battling the massive, male-dominated sports league for recognition — and a raise.

Eight miles inland of Miami’s beaches, Liberty City residents fight to save their community from climate gentrification: their land, sitting on a ridg...

Beautifully layered and expressionistic, After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history, espe...

Family, football and history come to life in an intimate portrait of the Dean family, longtime residents of the historic town of Pahokee, Florida. We...

This film is a true-crime thriller that goes behind the headlines to uncover the deep-seated and social media-fueled “boys will be boys” culture at th...

In 1970, a group of young Puerto Rican activists took over a decrepit hospital in New York City, launching a battle for their lives, their community,...