Civil Rights Movies
- 2017
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart6.22017HD
On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the first-ever b...
- 2017
Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992
Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-19927.72017HD
An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers clea...
- 2015
Klansville U.S.A.
Klansville U.S.A.6.82015HD
Investigates the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the cou...
- 2009
Democracy Is ...
Democracy Is ...102009HD
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...
- 2018
1968
196802018HD
At the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, the silent protest of Tommie Smith and John Carlos changed The Games forever, becoming one of the defining images of...
- 2014
1964
19646.52014HD
1964 was the year the Beatles came to America, Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali, and three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi. It was t...
- 2012
Ghosts of Ole Miss
Ghosts of Ole Miss72012HD
In the fall of 1962, a dramatic series of events made Civil Rights history and changed a way of life. On the eve of James Meredith becoming the first...
- 2000
Denying Brazil
Denying Brazil8.22000HD
A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian television "soaps". Based on his own memories and on a st...
- 2002
Information Violence
Information Violence102002HD
- 2005
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria4.252005HD
The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in San...
- 2019
Massacre River
Massacre River02019HD
Pikilina is a Dominican-born woman of Haitian descent. Racial and political violence erupts when the country of her birth, the Dominican Republic, rev...
- 1960
Integration Report 1
Integration Report 17.71960HD
Integration Report 1, Madeline Anderson's trailblazing debut, was the first known documentary by an African American female director. With tenacity, e...
- 2005
The History Makers: Success
The History Makers: Success02005HD
Ossie Davis, Terry McMillan, Horace Julian Bond, Isaac Hayes, Dionne Warwick and many others share their inspiring stories of success in the first ins...
- 2018
The Uncomfortable Truth
The Uncomfortable Truth02018HD
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...
- 2018
Through the Banks of the Red Cedar
Through the Banks of the Red Cedar6.52018HD
In 1963 at Michigan State University, Head Coach Duffy Daugherty chose 23 black men to play on the college team. From this move came legends Gene Wash...
- 2022
Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream
Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream92022HD
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...
- 2024
Fireflies at El Mozote
Fireflies at El Mozote02024HD
During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio...
- 2010
Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride
Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride4.42010HD
Over the course of a year, film follows Vancouver Pride Society president Ken Coolen to various international Pride events, including Poland, Hungary,...
- 2019
Obaida
Obaida02019HD
OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian children...
- 2008
Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution
Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution72008HD