Judith Helfand Trailers
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Most Popular Judith Helfand Trailers
Total trailers found: 19
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement Trailer (2011)
22 January 2011
The film features 85-year-old Mr. Armstrong, an African American barber in Birmingham, Alabama, as he experiences the manifestation of an unimaginable dream: the election of the first African American president.
Private Violence Trailer (2014)
19 January 2014
One in four women experience violence in their homes. Have you ever asked, “Why doesn't she just leave?” Private Violence shatters the brutality of our logic and intimately reveals the stories of two women: Deanna Walters, who transforms from victim to survivor, and Kit Gruelle, who advocates for justice.
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code Trailer (2019)
12 July 2019
Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in which 739 residents perished (mostly Black and living in the city’s poorest neighborhoods).
The Uprising of '34 Trailer (1995)
27 June 1995
Textile workers recall with pride the long- suppressed story of the General Textile Strike of 1934 when 500,000 Southern mill laborers walked off their jobs.
Pariah Trailer (2011)
27 December 2011
A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
A Photographic Memory Trailer (2024)
01 March 2024
A filmmaker ventures into the archives of her photographer mother to construct a personal story of love, loss, and finding someone in the work they leave behind.
A Healthy Baby Girl Trailer (1997)
17 June 1997
Filmmaker Judith Helfand turns the camera on herself to document her battle with cancer caused by DES, a drug prescribed to her mother during pregnancy.
Blue Vinyl Trailer (2002)
10 January 2002
With humor, chutzpah and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director and award-winning cinematographer Daniel B.
Cutting Through Rocks Trailer (2025)
27 September 2025
37-year-old Sara Shahverdi, a motorcycle riding, land owning, former midwife-turned-fierce citizen advocate and recent divorcée, just won a landslide local election in her remote Iranian village and everyone has an opinion about it.
The Land Beneath Our Feet Trailer (2016)
03 November 2016
The Land Beneath Our Feet follows a young Liberian man, uprooted by war, who returns from the USA with never-before-seen footage of Liberia’s past.
The Fire That Took Her Trailer (2022)
21 October 2022
Mother-of-two Judy Malinowski, then 31, was doused in gasoline and set on fire by her crazed boyfriend – and one of the first ever to testify from beyond the grave, at the trial for her own murder.
Absolutely No Spitting Trailer (2021)
22 January 2021
Documentarian Judith Helfand adopts z daughter at the age of 50.
Call Me Anytime, I’m Not Leaving The House Trailer (2022)
08 September 2022
Two days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lesya Verba, a Brooklyn-based artist and performer, gets through to her older sister in Odessa, Ukraine via FaceTime.
Orgasm Inc. Trailer (2009)
02 May 2009
Extraordinary behind-the-scenes access reveals a drug company's fevered race to develop the first FDA-approved Viagra for women - and offers a humorous but sobering look inside the cash-fueled pharmaceutical industry.
Love & Stuff Trailer (2020)
11 November 2020
Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single mother at 50.
Everything's Cool Trailer (2007)
01 January 2007
In this documentary, filmmakers Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand (Blue Vinyl) follow a troupe of self-proclaimed global warming "warriors" on a mission to get the world to care about rising temperatures and melting polar ice caps.
Keeper Trailer (2024)
13 November 2024
For Flynn, a single father and empty nester in the Bronx, beekeeping is a source of calm, wisdom, and healing.
Wo Ai Ni Mommy Trailer (2010)
31 August 2010
From 2000 to 2008, China was the leading country for U.S. international adoptions. There are now approximately 70,000 Chinese adoptees being raised in the United States.
A Quiet Inquisition Trailer (2014)
01 June 2014
At a public hospital in Nicaragua, Ob/Gyn Dr. Carla Cerrato must choose between following a law that bans all abortions and endangers her patients or taking a risk and providing the care that she knows can save a woman's life.
