Racism Movies

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first...

Jeffery Robinson's talk on the history of U.S. anti-Black racism, with archival footage and interviews.

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.

In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even...

Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional...

Nice Dreams - it rhymes with ice creams. And that's what Cheech and Chong are selling in this thoroughly wacky comedy. The outrageous, permanently...

In 1940, author Richard Wright turns to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Green to help adapt his best-selling book, Native Son, into a Broadway...

This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

In Brussels, Belgium, the Royal Museum of Central Africa is undertaking a radical renovation, both physical and ethical, to show with sincerity,...

Fareed, a young poet of Berber origin, has a sewing workshop in his apartment in Montreal. At first, Fareed doesn’t react at the accusing...

David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's...

Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, LA 92 immerses...

The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams...

Set in 1947, Knights of Swing is a feature film that chronicles a group of young jazz musicians whose dream is to form a “really swingin’...

All the cool kids were wearing it. This documentary explores A&F's pop culture reign in the late '90s and early 2000s and how it thrived on exclusion.

An outrageous, affectionate look at coming of age in the Eisenhower era in Brooklyn.

Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.

Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's...

A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.

Marty is the ideal fifth grader—he gets good grades, listens to his teachers and doesn't start trouble in class. But a darkness is beginning to...