Watching human rights : the 101 best films

Watching human rights : the 101 best films /

"In order to be able to protect human rights, it is first necessary to see the denial of those rights. Aside from experiencing human rights violations directly, either as a victim or as an eyewitness, more than any other medium film is able to bring us closer to this aspect of the human experie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gibney, Mark
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, ©2013.
Series:International studies intensives
Subjects:
Human rights in motion pictures
Motion pictures > Evaluation
Human rights
Motion pictures
Menschenrecht
Film
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Feature Films
  • 1.Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
  • Also of Note
  • The Last Days (James Moll, 1998)
  • Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (Mark Jonathan Harris, 2000)
  • Anne Frank Remembered (Jon Blair, 1995)
  • 2.The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
  • Also of Note
  • Fahrenheit 451 (Francois Truffaut, 1966)
  • 3.Missing (Costa-Gavras, 1982)
  • 4.The Official Story (Luis Puenzo, 1985)
  • 5.The Killing Fields (Roland Joffe, 1984)
  • 6.Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori, 1994)
  • 7.Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008)
  • Also of Note
  • In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan, 1993)
  • 8.Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (Lee Daniels, 2009)
  • Also of Note
  • Love and Diane (Jennifer Dworkin, 2002)
  • 9.Sometimes in April (Raoul Peck, 2005) and Hotel Rwanda (Terry George, 2004) (tie)
  • 11.Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins, 1995)
  • Also of Note
  • Contents note continued: Love Lived On Death Row (Linda Booker, 2007)
  • After Innocence (Jessica Sanders, 2005)
  • Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (Adrian Shergold, 2005)
  • 12.The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002)
  • Also of Note
  • A Film Unfinished (Yael Hersonski, 2010)
  • 13.Journey of Hope (Xavier Koller, 1990)
  • Also of Note
  • In This World (Michael Winterbottom, 2002)
  • 14.Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969)
  • Also of Note
  • Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)
  • Frozen River (Courtney Hunt, 2008)
  • 15.Gandhi (Richard Attenborough, 1982)
  • Also of Note
  • 1947: Earth (Deepa Mehta, 1998)
  • 16.Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, 2008)
  • Also of Note
  • Salaam Bombay (Mira Nair, 1988)
  • Born into Brothels (Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, 2004)
  • 17.Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
  • Also of Note
  • The Times of Harvey Milk (Rob Epstein, 1984)
  • Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)
  • Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel, 2000)
  • La Mission (Peter Bratt, 2009)
  • Contents note continued: Fire (Deepa Mehta, 1996)
  • 18.Norma Rae (Martin Ritt, 1979)
  • Also of Note
  • Matewan (John Sayles, 1987)
  • Bread and Roses (Ken Loach, 2000)
  • 19.The Insider (Michael Mann, 1999)
  • Also of Note
  • The China Syndrome (James Bridges, 1979)
  • Silkwood (Mike Nichols, 1983)
  • Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh, 2000)
  • 20.V for Vendetta (James McTeigue, 2006)
  • 21.A Dry White Season (Euzhan Palcy, 1989)
  • Also of Note
  • Cry Freedom (Richard Attenborough, 1987)
  • 22.Philadelphia (Jonathan Demme, 1993)
  • Also of Note
  • Yesterday (Darrell Roodt, 2004)
  • Life, Above All (Oliver Schmitz, 2010)
  • 23.Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney, 2005)
  • 24.To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)
  • Also of Note
  • 12.Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
  • The Verdict (Sidney Lumet, 1982)
  • A Time to Kill (Joel Schumacher, 1996)
  • 25.Days of Glory (Indigenes) (Rachid Bouchareb, 2006)
  • 26.District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009)
  • Contents note continued: 27.Sophie's Choice (Alan J. Pakula, 1982)
  • 28.Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass, 2002)
  • 29.Omagh (Pete Travis, 2004)
  • 30.Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad, 2005)
  • Also of Note
  • The Terrorist (Santosh Sivan, 1998)
  • Miral (Julian Schnabel, 2010)
  • The Baader Meinhof Complex (Uli Edel, 2008)
  • 31.Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, 2007)
  • 32.Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)
  • Also of Note
  • Lebanon (Samuel Maoz, 2009)
  • 33.Amazing Grace (Michael Apted, 2006)
  • Also of Note
  • Amistad (Steven Spielberg, 1997)
  • Roots (Marvin Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, and Gilbert Moses, 1977)
  • 34.Mississippi Burning (Alan Parker, 1988)
  • 35.The Circle (Jafar Panahi, 2000)
  • Also of Note
  • Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 2001)
  • The Stoning of Soraya M. (Cyrus Nowrasteh, 2008)
  • Silent Waters (Sabiha Sumar, 2003)
  • Water (Deepa Mehta, 2005)
  • 36.Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2006)
  • Also of Note
  • Contents note continued: The End of Poverty? (Philippe Diaz, 2008)
  • Life and Debt (Stephanie Black, 2001)
  • 37.4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
  • 38.Vera Drake (Mike Leigh, 2004)
  • 39.Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson, 2002)
  • Also of Note
  • The Price of Sex (Mimi Chakarova, 2011)
  • 40.Men with Guns (John Sayles, 1997)
  • Also of Note
  • Salvador (Oliver Stone, 1986)
  • Romero (John Duigan, 1989)
  • 41.The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
  • 42.Au Revoir Les Enfants (Louis Malle, 1987)
  • 43.Moolaade (Ousmane Sembene, 2004)
  • Also of Note
  • Mrs. Goundo's Daughter (Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater, 2009)
  • 44.The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles, 2005)
  • 45.Even the Rain (Iciar Bollain, 2010)
  • Also of Note
  • Indochine (Regis Wargnier, 1992)
  • Chocolat (Claire Denis, 1988)
  • 46.Lord of War (Andrew Niccol, 2005)
  • Also of Note
  • Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick, 2006)
  • 47.Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer, 1961)
  • Also of Note
  • Contents note continued: Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955)
  • 48.The Road to Guantanamo (Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, 2006)
  • 49.City of Life and Death (Lu Chuan, 2009)
  • Also of Note
  • The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (Lisa Jackson, 2007)
  • Lumo (Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Nelson Walker III, 2007)
  • 50.Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce, 2002)
  • pt. II Documentaries
  • 1.Darwin's Nightmare (Hubert Sauper, 2004)
  • 2.Nero's Guests: The Age of Inequality (Deepa Bhatia, 2009)
  • Also of Note
  • Black Gold (Nick Francis and Marc Francis, 2006)
  • 3.Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994)
  • Also of Note
  • On the Ropes (Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen, 1999)
  • 4.USA vs. Al-Arian (Line Halvorsen, 2007)
  • Also of Note
  • The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker, 2006)
  • 5.The Agronomist (Jonathan Demme, 2003)
  • 6.4 Little Girls (Spike Lee, 1997)
  • Also of Note
  • The Murder of Emmett Till (Stanley Nelson, 2003)
  • Contents note continued: 7.Arna's Children (Juliano Mer-Khamis and Danniel Danniel, 2004)
  • Also of Note
  • To See If I'm Smiling (Tamar Yarom, 2007)
  • Hot House (Shimon Dotan, 2006)
  • 8.We Were Here (David Weissman, 2011)
  • 9.Long Night's Journey into Day (Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffmann, 2000)
  • 10.Waiting for "Superman" (Davis Guggenheim, 2010)
  • 11.Roger & Me (Michael Moore, 1989)
  • 12.White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Steven Okazaki, 2007)
  • 13.Where Soldiers Come From (Heather Courtney, 2011)
  • 14.In the Land of the Free (Vadim Jean, 2010)
  • Also of Note
  • The Trials of Darryl Hunt (Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg, 2006)
  • Murder on a Sunday Morning (Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, 2001)
  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 1996) and Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 2000)
  • The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988)
  • Contents note continued: 15.You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo (Luc Cote and Patricio Henriquez, 2010)
  • 16.An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim, 2006)
  • Also of Note
  • Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal, 2006)
  • Burning the Future: Coal in America (David Novack, 2008)
  • The Last Mountain (Bill Haney, 2011)
  • 17.Last Train Home (Lixin Fan, 2009)
  • 18.Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin (Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Alberto Vendemmiati, 2001)
  • Also of Note
  • Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma (Patrick Reed, 2008)
  • Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders (Mark Hopkins, 2008)
  • 19.Pushing the Elephant (Beth Davenport and Elizabeth Mandel, 2010)
  • 20.Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Gini Reticker, 2008)
  • 21.Enemies of the People (Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath, 2009)
  • Also of Note
  • Brother Number One (Annie Goldson, 2011)
  • 22.Presumed Guilty (Roberto Hernandez and Geoffrey Smith, 2008)
  • Also of Note
  • Contents note continued: Reportero (Bernardo Ruiz, 2012)
  • 23.Taxi to the Dark Side (Alex Gibney, 2007)
  • 24.Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (Rory Kennedy, 2007)
  • Also of Note
  • Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris, 2008)
  • 25.Crude (Joe Berlinger, 2009)
  • 26.Better This World (Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega, 2011)
  • Also of Note
  • If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman, 2011)
  • Bidder 70 (Beth Gage and George Gage, 2012)
  • 27.The Pinochet Case (Patricio Guzman, 2001)
  • Also of Note
  • Carla's List (Marcel Schupbach, 2006)
  • Milosevic on Trial (Michael Christoffersen, 2007)
  • War Don Don (Rebecca Richman Cohen, 2010)
  • The Reckoning (Pamela Yates, 2009)
  • My Neighbor, My Killer (Anne Aghion, 2009)
  • 28.Budrus (Julia Bacha, 2009)
  • Also of Note
  • Encounter Point (Ronit Avni and Julia Bacha, 2006)
  • 29.When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Spike Lee, 2006)
  • Also of Note
  • Contents note continued: Trouble the Water (Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, 2008)
  • 30.Well-Founded Fear (Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini, 2000)
  • Also of Note
  • Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars (Zach Niles and Banker White, 2005)
  • Sentenced Home (David Grabias and Nicole Newnham, 2006)
  • 31.Children Underground (Edet Belzberg, 2001)
  • Also of Note
  • We'll Never Meet Childhood Again (Sam Lawlor and Lindsay Pollock, 2007)
  • 32.Invisible Children (Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey, and Laren Poole, 2006)
  • Also of Note
  • Soldier Child (Neil Abramson, 1998)
  • War/Dance (Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, 2007)
  • ABC Africa (Abbas Kiarostami, 2001)
  • 33.The Inheritors (Eugenio Polgovsky, 2008)
  • Also of Note
  • The Devil's Miner (Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani, 2005)
  • 34.Out in the Silence (Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer, 2009)
  • Also of Note
  • Paragraph 175 (Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, 2000)
  • 35.Public Housing (Frederick Wiseman, 1997)
  • Also of Note
  • Contents note continued: Welfare (Frederick Wiseman, 1975)
  • 36.Harlan County, USA (Barbara Kopple, 1976) and American Dream (Barbara Kopple, 1990)
  • 37.Shipbreakers (Michael Kot, 2004)
  • 38.Mardi Gras: Made in China (David Redmon, 2005)
  • 39.The Interrupters (Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz, 2011)
  • 40.The Age of Stupid (Franny Armstrong, 2009)
  • 41.Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony (Lee Hirsch, 2002)
  • 42.The Devil Came on Horseback (Anne Sundberg and Ricki Stern, 2007)
  • Also of Note
  • Darfur Now (Ted Braun, 2007)
  • 43.When the Mountains Tremble (Pamela Yates and Newton Thomas Sigel, 1983) and Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (Pamela Yates, 2011)
  • Also of Note
  • State of Fear (Pamela Yates, 2005)
  • 44.Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore, 2004)
  • Also of Note
  • Why We Fight (Eugene Jarecki, 2005)
  • 45.Petition (The Court of Complaints) (Zhao Liang, 2009)
  • 46.Burma VJ (Anders Østergaard, 2008) and Burma Soldier (Nic Dunlop and Ricki Stern, 2010) (tie)
  • Contents note continued: 48.One Day in September (Kevin Macdonald, 1999)
  • Also of Note
  • Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
  • 49.The Farm: Angola, USA (Liz Garbus and Wilbert Rideau, 1998)
  • 50.The Dictator Hunter (Klaartje Quirijns, 2007)
  • 51.The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Kazuo Hara, 1987).

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