Civil Rights Movies
- 1974
Stories of A
Stories of A11974HD
French documentary campaigning for the liberalization of abortion and contraception, directed by Charles Belmont and Marielle Issartel in 1973.
- 1979
Lawman Without a Gun
Lawman Without a Gun01979HD
During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a...
- 2021
Black Power: A British Story of Resistance
Black Power: A British Story of Resistance62021HD
An examination of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s in the UK, surveying both the individuals and the cultural forces that defined the era. ...
- 2020
Coded Bias
Coded Bias6.9412020HD
Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces...
- 2018
The Jazz Ambassadors
The Jazz Ambassadors72018HD
The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz...
- 1986
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?61986HD
The film questions whether the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s effectively changed the Black community, and American society more widely, and...
- 2014
Breath of Freedom
Breath of Freedom02014HD
In World War II. African-American GIs liberate Germany from Nazi rule while racism prevailed in their own army and home country. Returning home they...
- 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...
- 1963
Free, White and 21
Free, White and 214.21963HD
A motel owner in Texas is accused of raping a civil-rights worker from Sweden.
- 2011
Nefarious: Merchant of Souls
Nefarious: Merchant of Souls6.22011HD
Travel across four continents, through 19 countries, and into dingy Cambodian karaoke bars, Amsterdam’s infamous red-light district, Moldovan...
- 1970
Fireflies at El Mozote
Fireflies at El Mozote01970HD
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...
- 2018
The Groveland Four
The Groveland Four92018HD
July, 1949: four young black men are wrongly accused of rape by a 17-year-old farm wife in rural Lake County, Florida. The case of “The...
- 1994
Nightfighters: The True Story Of The 332nd Fighter Group--The Tuskegee Airmen
Nightfighters: The True Story Of The 332nd Fighter Group--The Tuskegee Airmen01994HD
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American pilots who saw combat during the Second World War. The 332nd Fighter Group stands apart...
- 2018
Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime
Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime02018HD
Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of Noble Sissle's incredible journey that spans "The...
- 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.
- 2021
Framing Britney Spears
Framing Britney Spears7.2142021HD
Her rise was a global phenomenon. Her downfall was a cruel national sport. People close to Britney Spears and lawyers tied to her conservatorship now...
- 2022
Fannie Lou Hamer’s America
Fannie Lou Hamer’s America02022HD
The film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights...
- 2010
For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots72010HD
This High Definition, PBS miniseries uses letters, diaries, speeches, journalistic accounts, historical text and military records to document and...
- 2025
News Without A Newsroom
News Without A Newsroom02025HD
As local newsrooms vanish, "News Without a Newsroom" explores journalism's uncertain future in the digital age. Through powerful stories and expert...
- 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...