Judith Helfand Movies

  • 2011
    Pariah

    Pariah

    Pariah

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    A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

    Pariah
  • 2007
    Everything's Cool

    Everything's Cool

    Everything's Cool

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    In this documentary, filmmakers Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand (Blue Vinyl) follow a troupe of self-proclaimed global warming "warriors" on a...

    Everything's Cool
  • 2009
    Orgasm Inc.

    Orgasm Inc.

    Orgasm Inc.

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    Extraordinary behind-the-scenes access reveals a drug company's fevered race to develop the first FDA-approved Viagra for women - and offers a...

    Orgasm Inc.
  • 2019
    Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

    Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

    Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

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    Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in...

    Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
  • 2014
    Private Violence

    Private Violence

    Private Violence

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    One in four women experience violence in their homes. Have you ever asked, “Why doesn't she just leave?” Private Violence shatters the...

    Private Violence
  • 2024
    A Photographic Memory

    A Photographic Memory

    A Photographic Memory

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    A filmmaker ventures into the archives of her photographer mother to construct a personal story of love, loss, and finding someone in the work they...

    A Photographic Memory
  • 2002
    Blue Vinyl

    Blue Vinyl

    Blue Vinyl

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    With humor, chutzpah and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director and award-winning...

    Blue Vinyl
  • 1997
    A Healthy Baby Girl

    A Healthy Baby Girl

    A Healthy Baby Girl

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    Filmmaker Judith Helfand turns the camera on herself to document her battle with cancer caused by DES, a drug prescribed to her mother during...

    A Healthy Baby Girl
  • 2020
    Love & Stuff

    Love & Stuff

    Love & Stuff

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    Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single...

    Love & Stuff
  • 2025
    Cutting Through Rocks

    Cutting Through Rocks

    Cutting Through Rocks

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    37-year-old Sara Shahverdi, a motorcycle riding, land owning, former midwife-turned-fierce citizen advocate and recent divorcée, just won a...

    Cutting Through Rocks
  • 2011
    The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement

    The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement

    The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement

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    The film features 85-year-old Mr. Armstrong, an African American barber in Birmingham, Alabama, as he experiences the manifestation of an...

    The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
  • 2016
    The Land Beneath Our Feet

    The Land Beneath Our Feet

    The Land Beneath Our Feet

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    The Land Beneath Our Feet follows a young Liberian man, uprooted by war, who returns from the USA with never-before-seen footage of Liberia’s...

    The Land Beneath Our Feet
  • 2010
    Wo Ai Ni Mommy

    Wo Ai Ni Mommy

    Wo Ai Ni Mommy

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    From 2000 to 2008, China was the leading country for U.S. international adoptions. There are now approximately 70,000 Chinese adoptees being raised...

    Wo Ai Ni Mommy
  • 1995
    The Uprising of '34

    The Uprising of '34

    The Uprising of '34

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    Textile workers recall with pride the long- suppressed story of the General Textile Strike of 1934 when 500,000 Southern mill laborers walked off...

    The Uprising of '34
  • 1970
    My Favorite Neoconservative

    My Favorite Neoconservative

    My Favorite Neoconservative

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    My Favorite Neoconservative offers a rare glimpse of intimate Washington politics through a unique father-daughter relationship. The main character...

    My Favorite Neoconservative
  • 2021
    Absolutely No Spitting

    Absolutely No Spitting

    Absolutely No Spitting

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    Documentarian Judith Helfand adopts z daughter at the age of 50.

    Absolutely No Spitting
  • 2022
    Call Me Anytime, I’m Not Leaving The House

    Call Me Anytime, I’m Not Leaving The House

    Call Me Anytime, I’m Not Leaving The House

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    Two days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lesya Verba, a Brooklyn-based artist and performer, gets through to her older sister in Odessa,...

    Call Me Anytime, I’m Not Leaving The House