Wide-ranging exploration of how film can inform and reinforce our understanding of human rights, analysing more than 300 human rights films.

Introduction; Part I Feature Films; Chapter 1 Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993); Chapter 2 The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006); Chapter 3 Missing (Costa-Gavras, 1982); Chapter 4 The Official Story (Luis Puenzo, 1985); Chapter 5 The Killing Fields (Roland Joffé, 1984); Chapter 6 Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori, 1994); Chapter 7 Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008); Chapter 8 Precious: Based on the Novel 'oePush'? by Sapphire (Lee Daniels, 2009); Chapter 9 (tie) Sometimes in April (Raoul Peck, 2005) Hotel Rwanda (Terry George, 2004); Chapter 11 Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins, 1995); Chapter 12 The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002); Chapter 13 Journey of Hope (Xavier Koller, 1990); Chapter 14 Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969); Chapter 15 Gandhi (Richard Attenborough, 1982); Chapter 16 Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, 2008); Chapter 17 Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008); Chapter 18 Norma Rae (Martin Ritt, 1979); Chapter 19 The Insider (Michael Mann, 1999); Chapter 20 V for Vendetta (James McTeigue, 2005); Chapter 21 A Dry White Season (Euzhan Palcy, 1989); Chapter 22 Philadelphia (Jonathan Demme, 1993); Chapter 23 Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney, 2005); Chapter 24 To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962); Chapter 25 Days of Glory (Indigÿnes) (Rachid Bouchareb, 2006); Chapter 26 District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009); Chapter 27 Sophie's Choice (Alan J. Pakula, 1982); Chapter 28 Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass, 2002); Chapter 29 Omagh (Pete Travis, 2004); Chapter 30 Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad, 2005); Chapter 31 Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, 2007); Chapter 32 Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008); Chapter 33 Amazing Grace (Michael Apted, 2006); Chapter 34 Mississippi Burning (Alan Parker, 1988); Chapter 35 The Circle (Jafar Panahi, 2000); Chapter 36 Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2006); Chapter 37 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007); Chapter 38 Vera Drake (Mike Leigh, 2004); Chapter 39 Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson, 2002); Chapter 40 Men with Guns (John Sayles, 1997); Chapter 41 The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966); Chapter 42 Au Revoir Les Enfants (Louis Malle, 1987); Chapter 43 Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembÿne, 2004); Chapter 44 The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles, 2005); Chapter 45 Even the Rain (Icíar Bollaín, 2010); Chapter 46 Lord of War (Andrew Niccol, 2005); Chapter 47 Judgment at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer, 1961); Chapter 48 The Road to Guantanamo (Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, 2006); Chapter 49 City of Life and Death (Lu Chuan, 2009); Chapter 50 Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce, 2002); Part II Documentaries; Chapter 1a Darwin's Nightmare (Hubert Sauper, 2004); Chapter 2a Nero's Guests: The Age of Inequality (Deepa Bhatia, 2009); Chapter 3a Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994); Chapter 4a USA vs. Al-Arian (Line Halvorsen, 2007); Chapter 5a The Agronomist (Jonathan Demme, 2003); Chapter 6a 4 Little Girls (Spike Lee, 1997); Chapter 7a Arna's Children (Juliano Mer-Khamis and Danniel Danniel, 2004); Chapter 8a We Were Here (David Weissman, 2011); Chapter 9a Long Night's Journey into Day (Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffmann, 2000); Chapter 10 Waiting for 'oeSuperman'? (Davis Guggenheim, 2010); Chapter 11a Roger & Me (Michael Moore, 1989); Chapter 12a White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Steven Okazaki, 2007); Chapter 13a Where Soldiers Come From (Heather Courtney, 2011); Chapter 14a In the Land of the Free (Vadim Jean, 2010); Chapter 15a You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo (Luc Cÿté and Patricio Henriquez, 2010); Chapter 16a An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim, 2006); Chapter 17a Last Train Home (Lixin Fan, 2009); Chapter 18a Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin (Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Alberto Vendemmiati, 2001); Chapter 19a Pushing the Elephant (Beth Davenport and Elizabeth Mandel, 2010); Chapter 20a Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Gini Reticker, 2008); Chapter 21a Enemies of the People (Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath, 2009); Chapter 22a Presumed Guilty (Roberto Hernández and Geoffrey Smith, 2008); Chapter 23a Taxi to the Dark Side (Alex Gibney, 2007); Chapter 24a Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (Rory Kennedy, 2007); Chapter 25a Crude (Joe Berlinger, 2009); Chapter 26a Better This World (Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega, 2011); Chapter 27a The Pinochet Case (Patricio Guzmán, 2001); Chapter 28a Budrus (Julia Bacha, 2009); Chapter 29a When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Spike Lee, 2006); Chapter 30a Well-Founded Fear (Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini, 2000); Chapter 31a Children Underground (Edet Belzberg, 2001); Chapter 32a Invisible Children (Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey, and Laren Poole, 2006); Chapter 33a The Inheritors (Eugenio Polgovsky, 2008); Chapter 34a Out in the Silence (Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer, 2009); Chapter 35a Public Housing (Frederick Wiseman, 1997); Chapter 36a Harlan County, USA (Barbara Kopple, 1976) American Dream (Barbara Kopple, 1990); Chapter 37a Shipbreakers (Michael Kot, 2004); Chapter 38a Mardi Gras: Made in China (David Redmon, 2005); Chapter 39a The Interrupters (Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz, 2011); Chapter 40a The Age of Stupid (Franny Armstrong, 2009); Chapter 41a Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony (Lee Hirsch, 2002); Chapter 42a The Devil Came on Horseback (Anne Sundberg and Ricki Stern, 2007); Chapter 43a When the Mountains Tremble (Pamela Yates and Newton Thomas Sigel, 1983) Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (Pamela Yates, 2011); Chapter 44a Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore, 2004); Chapter 45a Petition (The Court of Complaints) (Zhao Liang, 2009); Chapter 46a (tie) Burma VJ (Anders Ã~stergaard, 2008) Burma Soldier (Nic Dunlop and Ricki Stern, 2010); Chapter 48a One Day in September (Kevin Macdonald, 1999); Chapter 49a The Farm: Angola, USA (Liz Garbus and Wilbert Rideau, 1998); Chapter 50a The Dictator Hunter (Klaartje Quirijns, 2007); Chapter 51 The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Kazuo Hara, 1987);