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Abortion Helpline

At the Philadelphia abortion helpline, counselors field nonstop calls from women and teens who are seeking to end a pregnancy but can’t afford to, illustrating how economic stigma and cruel laws determine who has access to abortion in America.

Women Make Movies | 2020 | 13 minutes

Aiming High

Focuses on Uganda's successful economic recovery in the wake of Idi Amin's regime.

Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 26 minutes

The Bad Kids

An extraordinary principal’s journey to help her students realize their potential

GOOD DOCS | 2016 | 101 minutes

The Bad Kids

An extraordinary principal’s journey to help her students realize their potential

GOOD DOCS | 2016 | 84 minutes

Because They're Worth It

Micro-credit, education, health information, and hope provided to impoverished Chinese.

Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 24 minutes

Birth on the Border

Seeking a safer future for their children, two women from Ciudad Juárez, risk harassment at the hands of Border Patrol to cross the US-Mexico border legally to give birth in El Paso, Texas.

Women Make Movies | 2018 | 28 minutes

Bolivian Blues

Explores the success of new initiative to reduce widespread poverty.

Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 24 minutes

Border South

A vivid portrait of Central American immigrants who disappear along the trail running from southern Mexico to the US border, exposing a global migration system that renders human beings invisible in life, as well as in death.

Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 82 minutes

Brazil's Land Revolution

In the state of Bahia, a new initiative encourages the landless to band together to buy up land -- with low-interest government loans.

Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 23 minutes

Cabbage, Potatoes and other Demons

1 village, 1.000 tractors, 100.000 tons of cabbages & potatoes each year - which are hardly sold and eventually destroyed. Is there any way out?

Deckert Distribution | 2016 | 60 minutes