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:
17 And Life Doesn't WaitA candid view of life through the eyes of three teen girls
A Man and His Trumpet: The Leroy Jones StoryThere are millions of musicians in the world, but there’s only one Leroy Jones
A Place to BreatheExplores the universality of trauma, resilience, and healing in immigrant communities
A Tale of Three ChinatownsThe history, evolution and challenges faced by Chinatowns in three American cities.
Abortion: Add to CartWith increasing burdens on clinics, activists are combining the power of abortion pills and the internet to provide self-managed abortions in a revolutionary way
Adios AmorThe discovery of lost photographs sparks the search for a hero that history forgot - Maria Moreno, a migrant mother who became the charismatic leader of an early movement for farmworker justice
AdvocateLea Tsemel, an Israeli-Jewish lawyer who has represented Palestinian political prisoners for nearly 50 years, pushes the praxis of a human rights defender to its limits
All That I AmThe story of an extraordinarily courageous young woman on a path to recovery
Always in SeasonAfter 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging in North Carolina in 2014, his mother’s search for justice and reconciliation begins - centuries of trauma and lynching bleed into the present
American RevolutionaryThe life of Chinese-American civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs
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