Documentary Films on The D-Word

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War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory: The Culture (2019)

Directed by Yayoi Lena Winfrey

Japanese war brides married their former enemies—the American GI’s occupying their country.


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Native Vegan (2022)

Directed by Yayoi Lena Winfrey

Were there any Indigenous vegans before European colonization?


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Tokyo Lily, a war bride docu*memory (2024)

Directed by Yayoi Lena Winfrey

Sold into servitude at 13, she survived WWII in Japan and married an African American soldier.


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Banded Together: The Boys From Glen Rock High (2023)

Produced by Barry Rubinow


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SARANDIS (2002)

Directed by Georges Salameh

earthquake, greece, athens, portrait


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FACES OF ELECTRA (2002)

Directed by Georges Salameh


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Late Return (2010)

Directed by Thomas Halaczinsky

Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlaender returns to Berlin after 57 years livin in New York


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Don't call it Heimweh (2005)

Directed by Thomas Halaczinsky

At the age of 83 Margot Friedlaender who had surivied the holocaust starts a search for identity


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MOUNT FALAKRO (2007)

Directed by Georges Salameh

greece, mountains, portrait


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May First (1999)

Directed by Georges Salameh


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MAESMAK (2008)

Directed by Georges Salameh

Iraq, Greece, Mediterranean, war, migration, invasion


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Arrived - Margot Friedlaender, Berlin (2021)

Produced by Thomas F Halaczinsky

Third part of a trilogy documenting the life of Holocaust Survivor Margot Friedlaender


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Archipleago New York (Inselwelt New York) (2021)

Directed by Thomas F Halaczinsky

The series focuses on how nature negotiates and sustains its existence in the New York metropolis


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Francesca, You, Me (unreleased)

Directed by Catherine Green

Chronicles filmmaker Catherine Green’s journey to change her daughters future by changing her brain.


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Man Enough to Heal (2023)

Directed by Shawn Wildermuth

The long-lasting wounds of childhood sexual abuse are hard to heal, no matter what your gender.


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The Green Lie (2018)

Directed by Werner Boote

When you shop with a conscience, you don't save the world, you save the corporations.


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Absence/Presence (2023)

Directed by Yasmin Mistry

Celebrating the perseverance and lived experience of youth in the child welfare system


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IN THE SHADOW OF BEIRUT (2023) (unreleased)

Directed by Stephen Gerard Kelly


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Among Wolves (2019)

Directed by Shawn Convery

Where they once fought, they now fight to heal


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PTSD911 (2022)

Produced by Conrad Weaver

First responders battle the demons of post-traumatic stress but are afraid of losing their job.