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The Film Connection:
The Film Connection is a community of film lovers, social activists and lifelong learners who use our non-profit online film library to watch, discuss and act on compelling films from around the globe. An initiative of the global humanitarian agency Mercy Corps, The Film Connection offers a growing library of DVDs that tackle the issues facing the world we live in.

• Sicko
• Soldier Child: A Documentary by Neil Abramson
• Lord of War
• Pandemic: Facing AIDS
• Peace, a documentary
• Devil's Miner
• The Constant Gardener
• Pursuit of Happyness
• Blood Diamonds: the horrendous brutality and exploitation of the diamond trade
• Amazing Grace: William Wilborforce and the history behind the "end" of slavery in Britain
• Catch a Fire: true story, S. Africa
• The Corporation: documentary, US Corporatations
• Why We Fight: documentary, US and war
• Motorcycle Diaries: Argentinian-born Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevaras
• Beyond Rangoon: based on true story, American escaping Burma in 1988
• Witnesses: real-life war crimes committed during the Serbo-Croatian war
• Yesterday: AIDS
• Caminho das Nuvens (The Middle of the World): family travels to city to seek a better life
• Turtles Can Fly: days leading up to the Iraq war from a young boy's perspective.
• Lagaan, Once Upon a Time in India: Indian village, beset by drought, colonialism 1893
• Himalaya, l'enfance d'un chef: Tibet, focuses on daily lives and customs.
• The Circle: Iranian women, repressive society.
• Sometimes in April: Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen
• Separate but Equal: Brown vs. the Board of Education
• In My Country: South Africa's history of institutionalized racism
• Syrian Bride: Marriage in the midst of political turmoil between Israel and Syria
• Cry Freedom: true story, friendship between two men in S. Africa, struggling against aparteid.
• Before Night Falls: life of one of Cuba's literary voices, Reinaldo Arenas
• Chasing Freedom: lawyer who attempts to earn a foreign women citizenship in the US
• In this World: account of two Afghan refugees' passage to the West in search of a better life
• Lamumba: Patrice Lumumba was a passionate advocate for freedom in colonial Africa
• Red Corner: thriller that sought to expose the civil and human rights abuses of China
• ABC Africa: documentary
• Mandela and de Klerk: docudrama
• Tears of the Sun: career soldier choosing to save refugees in Africa over orders
• Born into Brothels: documentary of Kids with Cameras
• Dark Days: harrowing account of the day-to-day existence of the homeless
• Troublesome Creek: documentary demise of the American farm family
• Devil's Miner: Bolivian silver mines from child's point of view
• Dreams of Sparrows: plight of Iraqi civilians under US occupation
• National Geographic: China's Lost Girls: documentary
• Our Times: docudrama, Iranian women during 2001 election
• Trust me: Shalom, Salaam, Peace: documentary
• Hotel Rwanda: genocide Rwanda
• Ghosts of Rwanda: genocide Rwanda
• When the Mountains Tremble: documentary human rights abuses in Guatemala
• Boys of Baraka: documentary Baltimore, MD 20 boys sent to special institution in Kenya.
• Children Underground: homeless children in Bucharest
• Keep the River to your Right: anthropologist Tobias Schneebaum jungles of Peru
• Letter: Documentary Somalis immigrating to Lewistan, MA, post 9/11 violence towards them and the community response.
• Homeland: American Indian activists
• The Ground Truth: US veterans and the war in Iraq.
• Last King of Scotland: Ugandan dictator Idi Amin
• Children of Men: future without ability to bear children and marshall law
• Pursuit of Happyness: homelessness
• Letters from IwoJima: WWII movie from the Japanese viewpoint
• Flags of our Fathers: companion movie to IwoJima - WWII movie from US viewpoint