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Found 157 resources on Animal Rights

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Black Bull (Toro Negro)
Black Bull is an insightful, stirring and provocative documentary by Pedro González-Rubio and Carlos Armella. They follow the ups and downs in the life of second-rate toreador Fernando Pacheco, often referred to as “El Negro� or “El Suicida.� These talented co-directors create an especially intimate environment; at times it seems they must be invisible to their subjects, as several of the moments they capture on film are hard to believe - and, at times, hard to stomach. Pacheco works as a bullfighter in the Mayan community fairs in the Yucatán Peninsula, communities rife with misery and poverty despite lying only a couple of hundred kilometres from tourist havens such as Cancún. The bullfights are full of surprises: Pacheco is more of a stuntman than anything else and a definite highlight of the documentary is discovering the regional tradition of bullfighting in drag. A more troubling revelation is that Pacheco and his fellow bullfighters often go into the ring drunk and stoned. It would seem Pacheco’s greatest adversary is his own self-destructive nature. Life is not pretty here, but Black Bull is not an invitation for us to judge. Rather, the film is a complex, challenging work that pushes the boundaries of documentary filmmaking. Vividly shot on MiniDV and attentively edited and paced, it resists the easy lure of condemning its difficult subject. Aware of Pacheco’s extremely limited choices in this miserable environment, González-Rubio and Armella elect instead to search his compulsive, violent nature for its troubling underlying causes.
Film | Released 2005

Gettin’ the Vote
Gettin' the Vote describes the history of voting rights for blacks in the U.S. from slavery, through civil rights, up until today.…
Film | Released 1969

Gettin’ the Vote
"Gettin' the Vote" is an animation that describes the history of voting rights. Young people ages 12-16 learned history through old photographs,…
Film | Released 1969

Bilby Brothers - The Men Who Killed the Easter Bunny
FROM AUSTRALIA: “Bilby Brothers” is the story of an extraordinary undertaking, started by 2 men, then engrossing the entire country through an…
Film | Released 2002

Aamakaar - The Turtle People
FROM INDIA: ” We have to keep fighting for our existence - like a baby turtle has to keep flapping its flippers.” …
Film | Released 2002

Beyond Treason
Some believe these illnesses are caused by exposure to depleted uranium munitions used on the battlefield.  Others believe chemical and biological exposures are the prime suspect.  While yet an even larger group argue that experimental vaccines given to our troops, without their knowledge or consent, may have lead to the demise of many of these soldiers. The VA has determined that 250,000 troops are now permanently disabled, 15,000 troops are dead and over 425,000 are ill and slowly dying from what the Department of Defense still calls a “mystery disease.â€?  How many more will have to die before action is taken?
Film | Released 2005

The Birdpeople
A loosely-knit community of birdwatchers in New York’s Central Park; ornithologists with their specimen collections at a dozen different natural history museums;…
Film | Released 2004

The Birdpeople
A loosely-knit community of birdwatchers in New York’s Central Park; ornithologists with their specimen collections at a dozen different natural history museums;…
Film | Released 2004

Earthlings
earth.ling (urth ling), n. 1. An inhabitant of earth. Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, 1989 EARTHLINGS is a feature length documentary about humanity’s absolute…
Film | Released 2005

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