Civil Rights Movies
- 2019
Marching Forward
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Two dedicated high school band directors—one black, one white—were inspired by music to cross the color lines of segregation and work together for the...
- 2008
The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306
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Oscar nominated documentary short from 2008
- 2015
I Will Dance
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Follows the young people of Selma, Alabama's RATCo (Random Acts of Theatre Company) as they journey to New York City to share their story of hope, res...
- 2011
Black and Blue
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When Georgia Tech came to Michigan in 1934, the Wolverines were forced to bench their best play, Willis Ward, because he was an African-American. The...
- 2020
The Issue of Mr. O'Dell
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A documentary examining the life of civil rights organizer, Jack O'Dell, a close colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a force in his own right...
- 2023
Uprooted
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Short documentary examining a Black community’s decades-long battle to hold onto their land as city officials wielded eminent domain to establish and...
- 1968
The Second Largest Minority
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Documentary short documents the “Reminder Day Picket” at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, on July 4, 1968.
- 2018
Machos
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Through a training trip, in which the filmmakers also participate, the contrasts that exist between the conservatism of machismo and the new masculini...
- 2022
Fannie Lou Hamer’s America
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The film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights Movement...
- 2022
America You Kill Me
America You Kill Me02022HD
The rise, fall, and legacy of gay rights warrior Jeffrey Montgomery, and the struggle for equality in the Midwest.
- 2016
Arc of Justice
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ARC OF JUSTICE traces the remarkable journey of New Communities, Inc. and the struggle for racial justice and economic empowerment among African Ameri...
- 1992
Rigoberta Menchú: Broken Silence
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Focuses on 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Menchu, as she discusses the lack of human rights for the indigenous people of Guatemala and her c...
- 2011
The Committee
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A film about Florida's little-known investigative committee of the State Legislature from 1956-1964. The committee's aim was to root out homosexual te...
- 2024
TRANS*CEND: A Journey from Gender to Self
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In January of 2016, a dozen members of the Memphis transgender community began meeting for a weekly story circle facilitated by Elaine Blanchard. The...
- 2018
Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock
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Standing Rock, 2016: the largest Native American occupation since Wounded Knee, thousands of activists, environmentalists, and militarized police desc...
- 2024
Newen Mapuche, la fuerza de la gente de la tierra
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- 1983
Lousy Little Sixpence
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Tells of Aborigines' removal from their families to be sent to work as servants for white people and the rise of the first Aboriginal organisations in...
- 2022
Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp
Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp02022HD
The story of the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans and the loss of civil rights.
- 2022
Redlining: Mapping Inequality in Dayton & Springfield
Redlining: Mapping Inequality in Dayton & Springfield02022HD
See how New Deal-era Redlining maps delineated risk areas for federally-backed mortgages and home-ownership programs, resulting in a wealth gap that c...
- 2021
The Fire in Anniston: A Freedom Riders Story
The Fire in Anniston: A Freedom Riders Story02021HD
Eyewitness accounts recall when Klansmen attacked a bus filled with Freedom Riders in Anniston, Ala. and set it on fire.