A Life’s Work

Over seven years, Rosa María Payá pursues democratic change in Cuba as filmmaker Nanfu Wang reflects on authoritarianism across countries.

Journalist Maria Ressa reports on disinformation under Rodrigo Duterte while prosecution and intimidation close in around her.

Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy builds a multi-million-dollar doughnut empire in California, then watches it begin to unravel.

Activist Ye Haiyan protests a child sexual abuse case while the filmmaker and crew face surveillance, interrogation and harassment.

The writer Xiao Hong’s life told through her great love affair, her literary influence, and her flight from China during the war.

Nearly seven decades of Grace Lee Boggs’s civil rights and labour organising come into view as she continues the work at 97.

Anita Hill revisits her 1991 Senate testimony and the life she built after it changed the national conversation about sexual harassment.

The life of Esther Eng, a San Francisco native who became Hong Kong’s first woman director and made ten Cantonese features.

A portrait of the first woman of colour in the US Congress and the driving force behind Title IX.

The world of the writer Midori Osaki in three parts: the making of her masterpiece, the obscure years of illness and poverty, and the present from which her work is read.

Awaiting trial for treason, the Philippine national hero meets the colonial officer appointed to defend him.

A portrait of the artist and architect behind the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Civil Rights Memorial.