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This daring, eye-opening film raises the veil of anonymity surrounding the Iraqi insurgency by meeting face to face with individuals who are passionately engaged in the struggle against coalition forces. With unique insight into the people involved in the resistance, Meeting Resistance documents for the first time the sentiments experienced and actions taken by a nation's citizens when their homeland is occupied.

Other documentaries about war include The War at Home, War Photographer and The Camden 28.

In this timely documentary, Barack Obama returns to his family's roots on an emotional journey to Kisumu, Kenya - land of his father. Part personal odyssey and part chronicle of diplomacy in action, Senator Obama Goes to Africa follows Obama from South Africa to Kenya to a Darfur refugee camp in Chad as he explores the vast continent that is gaining increasing importance in this age of globalization.

Other First Run films about presidential hopefuls include One Bright Shining Moment and Brothers in Arms.

One of our most exciting partnerships is with Human Rights Watch, which endorses select First Run films that shed light on human rights abuses throughout the world.

Titles available in the collection include Dreaming Lhasa, a moving drama about a Tibetan filmmaker from New York who goes to India to make a documentary about former political prisoners; Roses in December, the shocking documentary about the brutal 1980 slaying of lay missioner Jean Donovan and three American nuns by members of El Salvador’s security force; and The Camden 28, an award-winning documentary about a group of 28 activists who broke into a draft board office in New Jersey in the summer of 1971. Click here to explore the entire collection.

Ernesto Ché Guevara was only 39 years old when he was executed in the Bolivian mountains in 1967. Using archival film and photo materials, Ché Guevara: Where You'd Never Imagine Him paints an intimate portrait of this revolutionary legend’s short life: his childhood in Argentina, his early interest in the Spanish Civil War, and the motorcycle trip through Latin America that changed his life forever.

More First Run titles that embrace the revolutionary spirit include Sacco and Vanzetti, Moments with Fidel, Born in Flames, Power & Terror: Noam Chomsky In Our Times, Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train and The Take.

Every year the Global Film Initiative tours a selection of films around the United States; First Run then releases the best of these on DVD. The Global Lens Collection endeavors to promote cross-cultural understanding through cinema.

Now available is the award-winning Dam Street, set during a time of rigid moral code in China. When a sixteen year old girl living in small riverside town discovers she is pregnant, the community is stunned and she is forced to put her child up for adoption. Ten years later, her only friend is a young boy who protects her from the critical eyes of the community... until a marriage proposal probes the limits of their friendship and the depth of her past.

The crimes against humanity committed by the Nazi regime are often thought of as the work of the Waffen SS and Gestapo, under the direction of leaders like Himmler, Eichmann and, ultimately, Hitler. The Unknown Soldier documents Germany’s controversial Wehrmacht Exhibition, which for the first time ever revealed the personal letters, photographs and film footage implicating the common foot soldier in horrific acts.

Read more about other films about the Holocaust, including the award-winning Forgiving Dr. Mengele, The Goebbels Experiment featuring the voice of Kenneth Branagh, and the riveting Verdict on Auschwitz.

The darkly comedic Perception is one of the most recent films released as part of the Empire DVD Collection. The result of a distribution agreement between First Run and Empire Pictures, the celebrated art house distribution company founded in 2000, the collection will feature Empire titles that have been unavailable for a year or longer.

Other titles now available in the Empire collection include the Academy Award nominated gem The Twilight Samurai; the Isabelle Huppert showpiece La Vie Promise; the acclaimed film based on the best-selling novel set during China’s cultural revolution, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress; and the extraordinary double feature about Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times and 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris.

A new title in our powerful DEFA Collection, Joachim Kunert's The Second Track is is the East German answer to Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock and Carol Reed's The Third Man. Filmed in menacing black and white, this rare noir classic tells the story of a train station inspector who witnesses a robbery and recognizes one of the thieves - but hides this fact from the authorities. Meanwhile the thief sets his partner after the inspector's daughter, setting in motion an explosive unearthing of dark secrets from the Nazi era.

First Run's DEFA Collection represents the films of Deutsche Filmaktiengesellschaft, the state-run studios of the former German Democratic Republic. Other films in the collection include Council of the Gods, Jacob the Liar, and I Was Nineteen.