Documentaries

The one-million strong Landless Workers Movement (MST) is a backbone of the Brazilian left, famous for its mass actions and radical land occupations all across the Brazilian countryside. While fighting agribusiness giants, the MST has become the largest producer of organic rice in Latin America, has a plan to plant...

Healthcare profiteers are destroying small towns across America.Hospitals deemed unprofitable are being closed by investors, leaving entire communities without a healthcare provider. The costs are deadly. Kei Pritsker was embedded with Put People First! PA, a group that’s fighting to make healthcare a human right in the state of Pennsylvania.

Sometimes there are events that mark historic turning points: the end of one era and beginning of another. This year, Biden’s failed Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles was one. It showed Latin America will no longer accept being relegated to “backyard” status by the U.S. empire. BreakThrough was...

The US blockade of Cuba leaves no part of Cuban society untouched. It intentionally causes shortages of food, medicine, and fuels and seeks to fracture society and undermine the progress of Cuba’s socialist revolution. Breakthrough’s Rania Khalek went to Havana to investigate.

The Unity and Survival Program of the Philadelphia Liberation Center provided essential food support to a struggling population as the pandemic wreaked havoc. Their success demonstrates that the problem of hunger stalking the United States could be solved if there was sufficient political will to do so. According to the...

Berlin-based riders are walking off the job and resisting dangerous and exploitative working conditions at the Gorillas grocery delivery start-up through strikes, blockades and protests. While the company’s management fixates on rapid growth and expansion into the US market, these workers have vowed to not back down until their demands...

  The only people charged over the brutal police murder of Elijah McClain are community activists who organized mass peaceful demonstrations calling for justice. They are facing up to 48 years in prison – among the highest charges for peaceful political protest in recent history. Watch our documentary ‘In Defense...