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Showing 1 - 10 of 14 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Restorative Justice


All Your Faces

In France, Restorative Justice has been offering victims and offenders the opportunity to engage in dialogues within secure environments.

Distrib Films | 2024 | 118 minutes

A Better Man

From Executive Producer Sarah Polley, A BETTER MAN follows a series of intimate conversations between a woman and her former boyfriend when she confronts him about their history of domestic abuse.

Women Make Movies | 2017 | 79 minutes

The Corridor

Inside the nation’s first high school in an adult jail.

GOOD DOCS | 2017 | 55 minutes

Glimmer of Hope

The death of a child is tragedy enough, but when the cause of death is random, brutal murder, the pain can be insurmountable.

National Film Board of Canada | 1997 | 52 minutes

The Grey Area: Feminism Behind Bars

THE GREY AREA is an intimate look at women’s issues in the criminal justice system and the unique experience of studying feminism behind bars. Through a series of captivating class discussions, headed by students from Grinnell College, a small group of female inmates at a maximum women’s security prison in Mitchellville, Iowa, share their diverse experiences with motherhood, drug addiction, sexual abuse, murder, and life in prison. The women, along with their teachers, explore the “grey area” that is often invisible within the prison walls and delve into issues of race, class, sexuality and gender.

Women Make Movies | 2012 | 65 minutes

Hollow Water

The members of a tiny Ojibway reserve on the shores of Lake Winnipeg set out to take justice into their own hands and deal with a history of sexual abuse in their community.

National Film Board of Canada | 2000 | 48 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

Rebound

Carrying the weight of motherhood, trauma, and incarceration, two women find healing and hope through sisterhood, service, and education

GOOD DOCS | 2021 | 58 minutes

Red Hook Justice

Profiles an innovative court in a Brooklyn neighborhood plagued by poverty and crime that is at the center of a legal revolution - the community justice movement.

Icarus Films | 2004 | 55 minutes

Reimagining Safety

Ten experts discuss practical alternatives to policing and incarceration following the 2020 murder of George Floyd.

GOOD DOCS | 2023 | 83 minutes