FILMS FOR ACTION

The Long Struggle for Justice in Guatemala.

Elena Hermosa travelled to Guatemala on behalf of Trócaire to document the landmark trial of former dictator General José Efraín Ríos Montt and his former chief of Military Intelligence, Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez for genocide and crimes against humanity. Guatemala was the scene of one of the most violent armed conflicts in Latin America between 1960 and 1996.

Rate this video 
Human Rights
Deep Reads - Get Cozy and Dig in
Fantastic Fungi
Trending Videos
Israelism (2023)
84 min - When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. They join a movement of young American Jews...
Pro-Palestinian Demonstrations Surge at US Campuses after Columbia University Arrests
8 min
Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)
77 min
In The Eye Of The Storm: The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis (2024)
258 min
Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)
780 min - Astronomer Carl Sagan's landmark 13-part science series takes you on an awe-inspiring cosmic journey to the edge of the Universe and back aboard the spaceship of the imagination. The series was...
The Outdoor Classroom: How to Bring a Permaculture Garden to Your School (2013)
28 min
Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)
84 min
Power 2 the People (2013)
49 min
Born Sexy Yesterday: A Hollywood Movie Trope That Maybe Needs to Die
18 min - "This video essay is about a gendered trope that has bothered me for years but didn’t have a name, so I gave it one: Born Sexy Yesterday. It's a science fiction convention in which the mind of a...
TraumaZone (2022)
350 min
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
58 min
Schooling the World (2010)
66 min
LOAD MORE
Trending Articles
The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World
Films For Action
10 Quotes From an Oglala Lakota Chief That Will Make You Question Everything About Our Society
Wisdom Pills
Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy
Panic Volkushka
The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict
Tim Hjersted
Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 30 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending
Films For Action
Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”
Russell Means
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)
David Cain
Documentary Film Flowchart: Choose a Great Film Based on Your Mood
Chris Ingrao
The Most Important Article You’ll Never Read? How Western Media Support State Terror, While Millions Die, and How This Article Was Killed
Matthew Alford, Daniel Broudy, Jeffery Klaehn, Alan MacLeod, Florian Zollmann
Argentina: The Country That Monsanto Poisoned
Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko
John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip
John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley
Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal
Chris Agnos
Four Kinds of Dystopia
Darren Allen
22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works
Tim Hjersted
Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet
Jordan Engel
Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life
Daniel Quinn
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
Bruce E. Levine
The White Man in That Photo
Riccardo Gazzaniga
Rupert Murdoch and the Israeli Genie
Michael Dickinson
93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness
Films For Action
War Is Always Justified
Charles Eisenstein
Why Does Our Culture Focus So Much on Childbirth and So Little on The Time After?
Dr. Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently
Maria Popova
Ikigai - Finding Your Reason for Being
Chip Richards
Indigenous Knowledge
Documentaries about Living the Change
Subscribe for $5/mo to Watch over 50 Patron-Exclusive Films

 

Become a Patron. Support Films For Action.

For $5 a month, you'll gain access to over 50 patron-exclusive documentaries while keeping us ad-free and financially independent. We need 350 more Patrons to grow our team in 2024.

Subscribe here

Our 6000+ video library is 99% free, ad-free, and entirely community-funded thanks to our patrons!