A Mothers Love (YouTube)

Tells the inside story of a mother, Terri Milbrandt, who pretended her daughter had cancer and appealed to her close-knit community for help to pay the medical bills.

Trials of Gabriel Fernandez (Netflix)

A boy’s brutal murder and the public trials of his guardians and social workers prompt questions about the system’s protection of vulnerable children

13th (Netflix)

Academy Award Nominee. In this thought-provoking documentary, scholars, activists, and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom. Disclosure (Netflix) In this documentary, leading trans creatives and thinkers share heartfelt perspectives and analysis about Hollywood’s impact on the trans community.

Transhood (HULU)

Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four kids - beginning at ages 4, 7, 12, and 15 - as they redefine "coming of age. These kids and their families reveal intimate realities of how gender is re-shaping the family next door in a neverbefore-told chronicling of growing up transgender in the heartland. The film is a nuanced examination of how families tussle, transform, and sometimes find unexpected purpose in their identities as transgender families.

Foster Care's Invisible Youth (YouTube)

Seven LGBTQ youth from the foster care system share their stories. Failed by their families, these young people go on to face rejection from foster families, invisibility within the system and incredible obstacles to healthy development.

Paper Tigers (Amazon Prime)

The principal of Lincoln High School changes his school's approach to discipline to help students overcome traumatic events.

Breaking Points (YouTube)

Includes candid perspectives from high-school and college students, as well as nationally recognized experts, challenging the misperceived “safety” and effectiveness of using prescription stimulants without a doctor’s prescription. It serves as a catalyst to inform discussions about what parents and communities can do to support teens struggling to manage stress.

Impact of Domestic Violence on Children (PBS)

This film addresses the impact of domestic violence on children. Research shows those impacts can last a lifetime. Children exposed to violence in the home often experience psychosomatic illnesses, depression, and suicidal tendencies. Later in life, these children are at greater risk for substance abuse, teen pregnancy, and criminal behavior than those raised in homes without violence.

Selling the Girl Next Door (YouTube)

This documentary takes viewers into the world of underage American girls caught up in the violent sex trade. Hundreds of thousands of girls under the age of 18 are ensnared into lives of prostitution annually, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Many are runaways or “throwaways” trapped in “the oldest profession” by pimps who sell them using modern sales and marketing techniques.

Medicating Kids (Vimeo)

This documentary “examines the dramatic increase in the prescription of behavior-modifying drugs for children. Are these medications really necessary-- and safe--for young children, or merely a harried nation's quick fix for annoying, yet age appropriate, behavior.

They Call Us Monsters (Tubi)

They Call Us Monsters goes behind the walls of the Compound, a highsecurity facility where Los Angeles houses its most violent juvenile criminals. To their advocates, they’re kids. To the system, they’re adults. To their victims, they’re monsters.

Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story (Netflix)

After 16-year-old Cyntoia Brown is sentenced to life in prison, questions about her past, physiology and the law itself call her guilt into question.