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Beyond the Blues: Child and Youth Depression
Through the personal stories of three young people, this compelling documentary explores the issues and challenges of childhood and youth depression.
National Film Board of Canada | 2004 | 56 minutes
The Boxers of Brule
This is the story of the 23 years old, Shaionna Grass Rope, who lost her best friend Cheryl Ziegler to suicide. Cheryl—her cousin by blood and sister by culture—was an aspiring boxer who battled depression and addiction.
Collective Eye Films | 2019 | 38 minutes
Confessions of a Social Bully
Twenty-year-old Natasha Bravely reflects on her past as a middle school bully
GOOD DOCS | 2017 | 15 minutes
Focus
The extra challenges teenagers with learning disabilities face.
The Fanlight Collection | 2003 | 7 minutes
Like Any Other Kid
Follows the intimate relationships between incarcerated youth and staff who use love and structure to guide and teach youth offenders how to take responsibility for themselves.
Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 89 minutes
Little Wound's Warriors
As Pine Ridge Indian Reservation faces the lasting effects of inter-generational trauma as well as a recent teen suicide epidemic, the voices of Little Wound High School students rise up in hope
GOOD DOCS | 2016 | 56 minutes
The Other Side of Blue
Through testimonies with four engaging young people, as well as commentary from two psychiatrists and a social worker who work with teens, the film explores the nature, causes, symptoms, and consequences of clinical depression, what makes teenage depression different.
The Fanlight Collection | 2000 | 31 minutes
Sankara's Orphans
In 1986, 600 orphans and rural children from Burkina-Faso were sent to Cuba with the mission of learning a trade so they could come back and develop their country, which was undergoing a Revolution. But after the assassination in 1987 of the country's president and the end of the Cold War, how were they to return?
Icarus Films | 2022 | 84 minutes
Unkept Secrets
What happens to a mother of eight when she finds out that the admired rabbi, teacher of her three sons, has been sexually abusing all of them for years? When the boys reveal themselves to us we realize the magnitude of horror they suffered. We follow them on the difficult journey leading up to the end of the trial. In this community, people shy away from cameras. Here, they give their testimony as it never has been seen or recorded before.
First Hand Films | 2018 | 70 minutes
Us Kids
Determined to turn tragedy into action, survivors of a school shooting catalyze an unprecedented youth movement that spreads like wildfire across the world
GOOD DOCS | 2020 | 86 minutes