Six men who were sexually abused by Catholic clergy as boys find empowerment by creating short films inspired by their trauma.
Casts Joe Eldred, Mike Foreman, Ed Gavagan, Dan Laurine, Monica Phinney, Michael Sandridge, Ryan Trobough, Terrick Trobough, Vanessa Trobough, Tom Viviano
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Drugged and Abused: No More Shame
Violently in Love
A Friend of the Family: True Evil
Drunk on Too Much Life
Land Without God
Obaida
A Common Experience
Harrods: The Rise & Fall of a British Institution
Don't Cry for Me Sudan: Shukran Baba
The Wisdom of Trauma
Boy Scout's Honor
Capturing the Friedmans
The Devil and Father Amorth
Two Crowns
Is Your Story Making You Sick?
Awful Normal
An Open Secret
Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson
Diameter of the Bomb
Somebody's Daughter
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Drugged and Abused: No More Shame
IMDB 8 | Jan , 2025
Caroline Darian, Gisèle Pelicot's daughter, looks back on the tragedy that shook her family: for ten years, her father drugged her mother to subject her to rapes committed by strangers recruited on the Internet. This case exposes the scandal of chemical submission, a practice where attackers, generally close to the victims, use prescription or over-the-counter medications to commit their crimes. This phenomenon, far from being marginal, affects victims with varied profiles...Violently in Love
IMDB 10 | Nov , 2017
Behind the closed doors of the Copenhagen-based women's shelter, the women and children are slowly recovering after having escaped domestic violence. Day by day the women are processing their traumas, building confidence and slowly understanding what it takes to break the cycle of violence.A Friend of the Family: True Evil
IMDB 6.6 | Nov , 2022
Jan Broberg and her family tell the unbelievable story of how she survived two kidnappings and years of childhood sexual abuse by a family friend.Drunk on Too Much Life
IMDB 10 | Nov , 2021
The filmmakers' 21-year-old daughter journeys from locked-down psych wards and diagnostic labels toward expansive worlds of creativity, connection, and greater meaning. Featuring insights from trauma experts and others, the film challenges the widespread idea that mental illness should be understood purely in biological terms, revealing the myriad ways that madness has meaning beyond brain chemistry.Land Without God
IMDB 7 | Oct , 2019
An intimate portrait of a family coming to terms with decades of institutional abuse and the impact it has had and is still having on their lives.Obaida
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2019
OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian children undergo military detention in a system where ill-treatment is widespread and institutionalized. For these young detainees, few rights are guaranteed, even on paper. After release, the experience of detention continues to shape and mark former child prisoners’ path forward.A Common Experience
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2013
A poetic exploration of the multi-generational affects of Canada's Indian Residential School system, based on the personal trials of Aboriginal playwright Yvette Nolan.Harrods: The Rise & Fall of a British Institution
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2025
The history of arguably the most famous shop in the world, which has been based on Brompton Road in London for more than 175 years, employs more than 6,000 people and still welcomes 15 million customers every year. This documentary tells the story of the people behind the department store, including Robin Harrod, the great-great-grandson of the store's founder, and culminates with the recent allegations against former chairman Mohamed Al-FayedDon't Cry for Me Sudan: Shukran Baba
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2020
Tonj, Sudan is the land with only desperation from poverty and war. This is the story about priest also doctor, educator, musician and architect Lee Tae-seok’s work and hidden episode behind.The Wisdom of Trauma
IMDB 6.9 | Jun , 2021
One in five Americans are diagnosed with mental illness every year. Suicide is the second most common cause of death in the US for youth aged 15-24, and kills over 800,000 people globally per year. Drug overdose kills 81,000 in the US annually. The autoimmune disorder epidemic affects 24 million people in the US alone. What is going on? The interconnected epidemics of anxiety, chronic illness and substance abuse are, according to Dr. Gabor Maté, normal - but not in the way you might think.Boy Scout's Honor
IMDB 4.5 | Dec , 2022
8-year-old Aaron Averhart was just a year shy of being able to move up from Cub Scout to Boy Scout when he received a special request from an admired Boy Scout leader, William (Bill) Sheehan. As Aaron rose up the Boy Scout ranks, he slowly became aware of Sheehan’s grooming techniques and began to realize he had much more sinister intentions in store for him. If Aaron’s parents had known that since the 1920s the Boy Scouts of America had been keeping hidden files on dangerous pedophiles in their ranks while failing to warn the public, the police, the scouts, their parents, or even fully removing them from the Boy Scouts program, they would have never allowed young Aaron to be part of such a complicit and corrupt organization.Capturing the Friedmans
IMDB 7.1 | May , 2003
An Oscar nominated documentary about a middle-class American family who is torn apart when the father Arnold and son Jesse are accused of sexually abusing numerous children. Director Jarecki interviews people from different sides of this tragic story and raises the question of whether they were rightfully tried when they claim they were innocent and there was never any evidence against them.The Devil and Father Amorth
IMDB 5.1 | Apr , 2018
William Friedkin attends an exorcism with Father Gabriele Amorth, as he treats an Italian woman named Cristina for the ninth time. Prior to filming, Cristina had purportedly been experiencing behavioural changes and “fits” that could not be explained by psychiatry, and which became worse during Christian holidays.Two Crowns
IMDB 7.7 | Oct , 2017
Recreation of facts and stories of both experts and people who met Maximilian Kolbe and were shocked by his words and actions.Is Your Story Making You Sick?
IMDB 0 | May , 2018
Humans are story-telling creatures. By thinking, we all unconsciously "author" a self-story in our heads. Most often, the characters and plot of our story is framed by negative experiences from childhood. These painful "stories" then determine our emotions, leading to unhealthy stress, and changes in body chemistry. This is how a person's self-story can turn into a stress-related illness.Awful Normal
IMDB 8.7 | Mar , 2004
Celesta and Karen Davis grew up in a loving family. They shared many wonderful childhood moments and, at the time, thought it all was normal. But when Karen and Celesta were molested in 1978, little was being done about sexual abuse. Their parents' lack of action was neither questioned nor challenged, including years of continued social contact with the perpetrator, his wife and their two young children. Twenty-five years later, feeling unresolved, they begin their quest to find the man who took advantage of their innocence and to ask him something that has haunted them for almost their entire life: "Why?"An Open Secret
IMDB 6.9 | Nov , 2014
An investigation into accusations of teenagers being sexually abused within the film industry.Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson
IMDB 5.1 | Mar , 2025
Explores the personal toll on James Safechuck and Wade Robson after they went public with accusations against pop icon Michael Jackson. The two men continue to seek justice as they face backlash from his global army of fans. With exclusive access to court hearings, the film shows the extent to which the Jackson estate has fought to prevent Robson and Safechuck from having their day in court.Diameter of the Bomb
IMDB 5.2 | Sep , 2005
Since the renewed Intifada began in 2000, there have been over 75 Palestinian suicide bombings. This is the story of 0ne-the bombing of bus 32 in Jerusalem in June 2002. The film connects the stories of a group of ordinary Israelis-Jews and Arabs. Each of them holds a clue to someone who died that day.Somebody's Daughter
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2008
Because of the internet's accessibility, anonymity, and affordability, pornography addictions have risen to epidemic levels, destroying intimacy, marriages and families, while distorting our definition of sex and sexuality.