A Personal Plea for Humanity at the US-Mexico Border
A powerful & personal TED talk, featuring author and academic Juan Enriquez who shares stories from inside the immigration crisis at the... Read More
Crossing Over
About immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles, looking at the border, document fraud, the asylum and... Read More
Destination America
A PBS series that looks at the forces that have compelled people to immigrate to America — economic opportunity, religious freedom, artistic... Read More
Don’t Tell Anyone (No le digas a nadie)
A resource from Sojourners that follows Angy Rivera, an immigrant rights advocate, as she learns to embraces her status as an undocumented... Read More
Dreams Die Hard
Profiles people trapped in slavery across the United States and highlights the survivors’ passion for freedom and justice, not just for themselves,... Read More
Dying to Live
Drawing on the insights of Pulitzer Prize winning photographers, theologians, Church and congressional leaders, activists, musicians and the immigrants themselves, exposes the... Read More
El Deportado
A short documentary from Creighton University on the causes of immigration and the effects of US policies on the southern border. Watch... Read More
Faith, Hope and Resilience on the Migrant Trail
A TED Talk featuring Jon Lowenstein, a photographer who for the past 20 years, has documented the migrant journey from Latin America... Read More
God Grew Tired of Us
The story of the “Lost Boys of Sudan”, a group of some 25,000 young men who have fled the wars in Sudan... Read More
Gospel Without Borders
A documentary from Ethics Daily, that separates myth from fact, examines what the Bible says about treatment of the “stranger,” shows the... Read More
Home is a Human Right: A Series on Immigration
A resource from Brave New Films that looks at one of the consequences of the current surge of anti-immigrant rhetoric: as more... Read More
How Democracy Works Now
A documentary consisting of twelve discrete films about several dozen people in all kinds of places, each connected by a commitment to... Read More
Human Trafficking: Lives for Sale
A presentation of Maryknoll, looks at the underbelly of illegal immigration, human trafficking including the black-market trade in human beings. Read more.... Read More
Immigrant Prison Series
A resource from Brave New Films that looks at the 440,000 immigrants imprisoned each year throughout the U.S. in 200 facilities owned... Read More
Immigrant Stories: Doctors and Nurses
A resource from Brave New Films, exposes how inhumane immigration policies are forcing people to choose between medical care or deportation. Watch... Read More
Immigrant Voices Make Democracy Stronger
A 13 minute TED Talk featuring Sayu Bhojwani, who shares her story of becoming an American citizen — revealing how her love... Read More
Immigration Battle
A feature film from Frontline and Independent Lens, takes viewers behind closed doors in Washington’s corridors of power to explore the political... Read More
Immigration Nation
A documentary series from Netflix that looks inside the world of immigration enforcement by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Watch... Read More
In the Shadow of the Raid
Tells the story of what happened when Immigration agents stormed a kosher meat plant in the heartland of America, arresting nearly 400... Read More
Indivisible
A documentary from Sojourners that is part of the Onward series on immigration. Features the story of Renata, Evelyn, and Antonio who were... Read More
Living Undocumented
A series from Netflix, that features the stories of eight undocumented families as the United States’ immigration policies are transformed. Watch the... Read More
Living With Fear of Deportation | Waking Dream Ep. 2
Part of a PBS documentary series, this episode tells the stories of Steve whose parents were forced to live in China after... Read More
Los Hermanos/The Brothers
A PBS documentary about two virtuoso Cuban-born brothers living on opposite sides of a geopolitical chasm a half century wide. Tracking their... Read More
Marcos Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
A PBS Frontline story that examines the U.S. immigration system through the eyes of a decorated U.S. Marine veteran and her undocumented... Read More
Meet The Dreamers Caught in the DACA Fight | Waking Dream Ep. 1
A documentary featuring the stories of people who were brought to the U.S. as children and now face the prospect of deportation... Read More
Oh Mercy: Searching for Hope in the Promised Land
The first of three films in Running To Stand Still, a series of documentaries about the global refugee crisis, and its inextricable... Read More
On Patrol with Arizona’s ‘Minutemen’
A citizen’s patrol group in Arizona is vowing to do what their government won’t – close down the Mexico border. but this... Read More
One Border, One Body: Immigration & the Eucharist
Tells the story of an annual liturgy celebrated at the border, with a sixteen-foot iron fence that divides the community in half,... Read More
Out of Many, One
A documentary from Netflix, that depicts some of the many threads that continue to weave the tapestry of America through the lens... Read More
Papers: Stories of Undocumented Youth
The story of undocumented youth and the challenges they face as they turn 18 without legal status. Learn more.
Safe Haven: The Sanctuary Movement
This 13 minute documentary from the New York Times Retro Report, explores the roots of the interfaith movement in the 1980’s to... Read More
Sanctuary Movement
A 10 minute documentary from PBS, that reports on the current sanctuary movement from Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Arizona where it... Read More
Separated: Children at the Border
A documentary from Frontline, that investigates the story of what happened to immigrant children separated from their parents at the border. The... Read More
The 800 Mile Wall
Highlights the construction of the new border walls along the U.S.-Mexico border as well as the effect on migrants trying to cross... Read More
The Dark History of “Gasoline Baths” at the Border
A documentary from the Vox Missing Chapter series, that looks at the history of using toxic chemicals at the U.S. Mexico border.... Read More
The Invisible Chapel
Tells the story of a migrant chapel in a San Diego neighborhood that for over 20 years was used every Sunday for... Read More
The Invisible Mexicans of Deer Canyon
Looks at what life is like for millions of undocumented immigrants living in the shadows of American society. The film portrays intimate... Read More
The Matthew 25 Pledge
A short video from Sojourners, that paraphrases the words of Jesus and applies them to current events. Watch now.
The River and the Wall
Follows five friends on a 1,200 mile journey along the US-Mexico border from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico. Riding horses,... Read More
Tony and Janina’s American Wedding
A feature length documentary that gets to the heart of the current U.S. immigration system by telling the story of the Wasilewski... Read More
Visualizing Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration
An animation that shows changes in immigration to the US and lists the top three countries of origin by decade. Also has... Read More
What Does It Mean to Be a Citizen of the World?
A TED Talk with Hugh Evans discussing a movement that mobilizes “global citizens,” people who self-identify first and foremost not as members... Read More
Who is Dayani Cristal?
A documentary about trying to identity one of the thousands of anonymous people who perish in the desert trying to find a... Read More
Why Legal Immigration to the U.S. is Almost Impossible
A simple but effective overview of the current legal immigration process in the U.S. Watch now.
Why the Only Future Worth Building Includes Everyone
A TED Talk, featuring Pope Francis, who offers a message to people of all faiths — to those who have power as... Read More
Zero Tolerance
A PBS Frontline documentary that shows how immigration became a powerful political weapon that fueled division and violence. Based on dozens of... Read More