Civil Rights Movies

With no choice, César faced leaving his family behind, quitting his job and joining the Army. In an unprecedented chain of events he became the first...

In 1867, when the United States purchased the Alaska territory, the promise of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights didn't apply to Alaska Natives....

The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it? Or is the act of being part in democracy depende...

The film questions whether the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s effectively changed the Black community, and American society more widely, and exami...

The real dream of the American pastor Martin Luther King was never limited to civil rights. He hoped for a just America, where poverty would no longer...

Combines footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era to re-tell the story of Noble Sissle's incredible journey that spans "The Harlem H...

When the award-winning filmmaker of "An Ordinary Hero", Loki Mulholland, dives into the 400 year history of institutional racism in America he is conf...

By the end of his illustrious career, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves may well have been the preeminent lawman of the Old West. He brought upwards of...

The story of Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians interned with Japanese Americans during World War II. The wife of a Japanese American, Ishigo r...

A clinical review of judicial corruption, the good and the bad guys showcased. The need for complete, federal and state judicial reform, term limits,...

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American pilots who saw combat during the Second World War. The 332nd Fighter Group stands apart...

The decades-long debate surrounding reparations is fraught, mired in racial tension and the semantics of restorative justice. While the national conve...

Pikilina is a Dominican-born woman of Haitian descent. Racial and political violence erupts when the country of her birth, the Dominican Republic, rev...

A City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in 1954. An Oscar-nominated short documentary from 19...

Integration Report 1, Madeline Anderson's trailblazing debut, was the first known documentary by an African American female director. With tenacity, e...

Ossie Davis, Terry McMillan, Horace Julian Bond, Isaac Hayes, Dionne Warwick and many others share their inspiring stories of success in the first ins...

Chronicles over four centuries of African American influence on the development of the modern-day United States. Before Plymouth Rock and Jamestown, S...

This landmark documentary reveals the tragic life of a gifted young woman who was executed for speaking out during the height of Chairman Mao’s rule.

Histoires d'A is a French documentary campaigning for the liberalization of abortion and contraception, directed by Charles Belmont and Marielle Issar...