Documentaries

On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communication devices and detonated them remotely, killing 37 people and injuring nearly 3,000, including children. In this special documentary report, journalist Rania Khalek goes inside the attack, tracing the...

“Alligator Alcatraz” is the latest in Trump’s brutal mass deportation campaign. BT went to South Florida to speak with residents, environmental activists, and immigrant families who say the entire project is corrupt, the conditions are brutal, and it could change the Everglades forever.

Charlton County, Georgia doesn’t have a working hospital, but it’s about to be home to the largest ICE detention center in the country. The facility is run by GEO Group, the multi-billion dollar prison profiteer the U.S. government pays to cage migrants. BT followed the organizers demanding the Folkston ICE...

BreakThrough’s feature-length documentary on what really happened at Columbia last year, featuring Mahmoud Khalil and made in association with Watermelon Pictures, just broke box office records for a documentary opening in a single theater. Based on this success, and a flood of positive reviews, it has now been picked up...

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...