Slavery Movies

In July 1860, the schooner Clotilda slipped quietly into the dark waters of Mobile, Ala., holding 110 Africans stolen from their homes and families,...

Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America...

Nobleman Jean-Francois de la Plaine is exiled to serve as governor of a West African colony.

In 1956, BLOOMER GIRL was presented in a live television production starring the magnificent Barbara Cook, whose star was then on the rise, with...

Huck Finn is a homeless boy because he was abandoned by his father, who left the village for over a year. Although he lives in a barrel and the...

During the Civil War, a Quaker couple risks their lives by helping runaway slaves.

Mice sold into slavery and driven to pick cotton by whip-cracking cats plot their escape to freedom.

A luxurious house stands in a deserted region, contrasting with its surroundings. It is a house of prostitution and its inmates are brought there...

In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney...

The first screen adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel to star a black man in the title role.

Parallels are drawn between Abraham Lincoln's presidency and the presidency of Donald Trump. Not since 1860 have the Democrats so fanatically refused...

The story of Benjamin Banneker, the early American patriot whose achievements rival those of Benjamin Franklin!! Risking his life, working with the...

Gordon, The Black Pirate, battles the slavery trade.

This Italian film version of Verdi's opera stars Sophia Loren on the screen, with Renata Tebaldi providing the vocals.

Housed inside a vault in the basement of an abandoned school lurks an evil that has been locked away for over a hundred years. When a teacher and 5...

A group of martial arts students are en route to an island that supposedly is home to the ghosts of martial artists who have lost their honor. A...

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

Rise, fall and execution of John Brown, fanatic abolitionist.

Children's book authors Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff's most beloved elephant comes to the big screen in this animated family tale. Elephant monarch...

On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.