Social Injustice Showdown

6:00 AM PST 11/13/2012 by Tina Daunt

This year's contenders reflect an American pysche obsessed with righting past wrongs, coping with contemporary stresses and a touch of schadenfreude (a 90,000-square-foot house foreclosed!)

Feature documentary contenders -- like election-year voters -- tend to be obsessed with an ever-rotating roll call of social injustices. Not surprisingly, this year's crop of hopefuls were born from a nation wrestling with oppression in various forms -- bullying, access to health care, legal miscarriages of justice and economic disparities.