The GOOD DOCS Canadian Collection
GOOD DOCS are films that do good in the world. Our award-winning collection engages and inspires students by featuring rarely heard stories about individuals and communities working towards a more equitable world. We champion creative expression and complex films that provoke critical thinking. GOOD DOCS represents established documentarians and passionate new filmmakers driven by their experiences as educators, academics, journalists, artists, social workers, community members, and activists. GOOD DOCS films and the GOOD TALKS speaker series offer powerful educational experiences to students and communities everywhere.
The GOOD DOCS Canadian Collection includes the following titles:
Crow Country: Our Right to Food SovereigntyTribal members on the Crow reservation fight for better food and a better future for their community.
My So-Called Selfish LifeA paradigm-shifting documentary about one of our greatest social taboos: choosing to not become a mother
No Straight LinesThe journeys of five scrappy queer artists from the margins of the underground comics scene to mainstream acceptance
Once A FuryONCE A FURY profiles members of The Furies, a 1970s radical collective that developed a lesbian-feminist politic to correct what they called the "zig-zag and haphazard" thinking of the straight women's movement.
Pushed Up The MountainA poetic and personal film about plants and the people who care for them
Say His Name: Five Days for George FloydAn on-the-ground look at the uprising in Minneapolis following the murder of George Floyd
The Gig Is UpUncovering the real costs of the platform economy through the lives of people around the world working for companies like Uber, Amazon and Deliveroo.
The Last OutThree Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to chase their dreams of playing in the major leagues
Welcome StrangersWhen asylum-seeking immigrants are released from an ICE detention facility onto unfamiliar streets, where can they go for help?
A Tale of Three ChinatownsThe history, evolution and challenges faced by Chinatowns in three American cities.
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