Civil Rights Movies

Short documentary examining a Black community’s decades-long battle to hold onto their land as city officials wielded eminent domain to...

Gloria Allred overcame trauma and personal setbacks to become one of the nation’s most famous women’s rights attorneys. Now the feminist...

During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F....

A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.

Exceptionally talented actor and bridge-builder between black and white, a political icon and artist at the same time: that was Sidney Poitier. He...

Amache: An American Injustice tells the compelling and heartbreaking story of the racist imprisonment of Japanese Americans through the experiences...

Tracing the U.S. military's long history of discrimination against the gay community and one couple's personal journey for acceptance.

THE BLACK LIST: VOL. 2 profiles some of today's most fascinating African-Americans. From the childhood inspirations that shaped their ambitions, to...

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...

On the anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, Sir Trevor McDonald travels to the Deep South of America to get closer to the man who meant so much...

James Baldwin and Dick Gregory discuss the Civil Rights Movement in 1960s Great Britain.

Over the course of a year, film follows Vancouver Pride Society president Ken Coolen to various international Pride events, including Poland,...

The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the May events in France, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F....

A documentary on funk and P-funk and the bands and artists that made it all happen: James Brown, Sly Stone, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Maurice...

The last living descendants of a once-thriving Black neighborhood in Athens, GA, come together to fight to preserve the memory of Linnentown. Their...

James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling...

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...

The story of the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans and the loss of civil rights.

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