Americans are warming to the idea of welcoming Ukrainian refugees. Here are some documentaries about helping refugees resettle that can provide guidance and foster an understanding of how to recognize the needs of refugees and help them adjust to an unfamiliar yet safer life, as they endeavor to leave past traumas behind.

These films are available on DVD with public performance rights for school and library purchase or rental. Academic streaming can be licensed from Docuseek. Campus and community groups interested in hosting a community screening can book now through Bullfrog Communities.
This is Home: A Refugee Story is an intimate portrait of four Syrian refugee families arriving in America and struggling to find their footing. They are given temporary help by the International Rescue Committee to become self-sufficient in their new home: Baltimore, MD. They attend cultural orientation classes and job training sessions where they must “learn America”—everything from how to take public transportation to negotiating new gender roles. New travel bans add complications and heartbreak, testing their strength, resilience, and humor, showing us what it’s like to start over, no matter the obstacles.
A Home Called Nebraska is a story of mid-western welcome, acceptance and unlikely friendships during a time of national anxiety and emboldened bigotry. We meet refugees who escaped war, torture and persecution. It also introduces the generous Nebraskans who welcomed them, taught them, celebrated their first Thanksgiving with them, and helped them find jobs and houses. Today these refugees are succeeding, and are giving back to the communities that supported them.
Day One follows a group of teenage refugees from war-torn countries who are enrolled at Nahed Chapman New American Academy, a unique public school for refugees and immigrants-only in St. Louis, MO, where they are guided through an inspirational program of education, healing and trauma intervention by devoted educators, some of whom have chosen to relocate to the inner city to support their students.
It's estimated that more than a million refugees, asylum-seekers and other immigrants to the United States have been victims of politically motivated torture. Refuge: Caring for Survivors of Torture highlights five treatment and support programs in Minneapolis, Atlanta, the Boston Area, and Washington that provide care and support to survivors who have come to the U.S. to make new lives for themselves.
All films are available on DVD with public performance rights for school and library purchase or rental. Academic streaming can be licensed from Docuseek. Campus and community groups interested in hosting a community screening can book now through Bullfrog Communities.

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