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 collection includes the following titles:
Make a CircleA love letter to early educators and a rallying cry for a child care system in crisis.
The StrikeThe story of a generation of California men who endured decades of solitary confinement and, against all odds, launched the largest hunger strike in U.S. history
The Race EpidemicAn outbreak caused by Covid-19 – an epidemic of racism against Asian Americans.
Home CourtTraces the ascent of Ashley Chea, a Cambodian American basketball prodigy whose life intensifies amid recruitment, injury, and triumph throughout her high school career
Small-Time CinemaTwo YouTube filmmaking groups from Balochistan and Assam confront identity, history, and culture through grassroots cinema
Sequencing HopeAn Alabama family puts their faith in the new medical frontier of gene therapy to save their child's life
Sweetheart DealFour sex workers caught in the spiral of addiction turn to a self-proclaimed healer offering friendship and a path to salvation from the streets of Seattle.
A Double LifeThe gripping true story of Stephen Bingham, a lawyer accused of passing a gun to prisoners’ rights leader George Jackson in 1971
Shaking it Up: The Life and Times of Liz CarpenterThe inspiring story of a trailblazing journalist, White House official, feminist leader, political activist, and humorist whose legacy is highly relevant today
Breaking SocialExplores global patterns of kleptocracy and extractivism, weaving threads between global uprisings, shared anger and courageous actions
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