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The GOOD DOCS International Collection

GOOD DOCS are films that do good in the world. Our award-winning collection engages and inspires students by featuring rarely heard stories about individuals and communities working towards a more equitable world. We champion creative expression and complex films that provoke critical thinking. GOOD DOCS represents established documentarians and passionate new filmmakers driven by their experiences as educators, academics, journalists, artists, social workers, community members, and activists. GOOD DOCS films and the GOOD TALKS speaker series offer powerful educational experiences to students and communities everywhere.

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The GOOD DOCS International Collection collection includes the following titles:

Lobola, A Bride's True Price? - imageLobola, A Bride's True Price?

When an opinionated filmmaker gets engaged, she must choose between rejecting Lobola, the traditional bride‑price paid by a groom, or honoring the cultural custom that challenges her modern beliefs about marriage

GOOD DOCS | 2026 | 96 minutes | College, Adults
Ten Times Better - imageTen Times Better

Ballet, Broadway and blackjack—Ten Times Better recovers the lost story of an Asian American dance pioneer, 88-year-old George Lee

GOOD DOCS | 2024 | 31 minutes | College, Adults
Patrick Nagatani: Living in the Story - imagePatrick Nagatani: Living in the Story

Explores Patrick Nagatani’s innovative imagery/storytelling to raise awareness about modern anxieties, including immigration and nuclear weapons.

GOOD DOCS | 2018 | 52 minutes | College, Adults
Spring of the Vanishing - imageSpring of the Vanishing

A motherís search for her missing teenage son uncovers mass murder and a conspiracy of silence on Americaís doorstep.

GOOD DOCS | 2025 | 103 minutes | College, Adults
Alien: American Dream Denied - imageAlien: American Dream Denied

This film spotlights the emotional journey of high-skilled, documented immigrants as they seek permanence in a country that benefits from their talent, but denies them a home.

GOOD DOCS | 2023 | 83 minutes | College, Adults
An Unquiet Mind - imageAn Unquiet Mind

This intimate documentary follows two people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, revealing the hidden realities of a deeply misunderstood condition.

GOOD DOCS | 2025 | 76 minutes | College, Adults
How to Poison a Planet - imageHow to Poison a Planet

HOW TO POISON A PLANET reveals the story of how "forever chemicals" came to contaminate every corner of the globe, sparking an environmental crisis that reaches from the heart of New York City to the shores of Australia and beyond

GOOD DOCS | 2024 | 78 minutes | College, Adults
My Sweet Land - imageMy Sweet Land

For 11-year-old Vrej, life in his homeland, Artsakh, is like a paradise, but when war starts again, can he carry a nation's hopes on his young shoulders?

GOOD DOCS | 2024 | 76 minutes | College, Adults
Dis-Ease - imageDis-Ease

Science fictions, body politics - the real consequences of how we imagine disease

GOOD DOCS | 2024 | 105 minutes | College, Adults
1000 Hands of the Guru - image1000 Hands of the Guru

Four monks, a royal scholar, and their American guru are fighting to save Bhutan's sacred scrolls while learning the art of letting go

GOOD DOCS | 2016 | 66 minutes | College, Adults

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