Civil Rights Movies

  • 1974
    Stories of A

    Stories of A

    Stories of A

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    French documentary campaigning for the liberalization of abortion and contraception, directed by Charles Belmont and Marielle Issartel in 1973.

    Stories of A
  • 1979
    Lawman Without a Gun

    Lawman Without a Gun

    Lawman Without a Gun

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    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...

    Lawman Without a Gun
  • 2021
    Black Power: A British Story of Resistance

    Black Power: A British Story of Resistance

    Black Power: A British Story of Resistance

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    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. ...

    Black Power: A British Story of Resistance
  • 2020
    Coded Bias

    Coded Bias

    Coded Bias

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    Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces...

    Coded Bias
  • 2018
    The Jazz Ambassadors

    The Jazz Ambassadors

    The Jazz Ambassadors

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    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...

    The Jazz Ambassadors
  • 1986
    Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?

    Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?

    Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?

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

    Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
  • 2014
    Breath of Freedom

    Breath of Freedom

    Breath of Freedom

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    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...

    Breath of Freedom
  • 2018
    Through the Banks of the Red Cedar

    Through the Banks of the Red Cedar

    Through the Banks of the Red Cedar

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    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...

    Through the Banks of the Red Cedar
  • 1963
    Free, White and 21

    Free, White and 21

    Free, White and 21

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    A motel owner in Texas is accused of raping a civil-rights worker from Sweden.

    Free, White and 21
  • 2011
    Nefarious: Merchant of Souls

    Nefarious: Merchant of Souls

    Nefarious: Merchant of Souls

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    Travel across four continents, through 19 countries, and into dingy Cambodian karaoke bars, Amsterdam’s infamous red-light district, Moldovan...

    Nefarious: Merchant of Souls
  • 1970
    Fireflies at El Mozote

    Fireflies at El Mozote

    Fireflies at El Mozote

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    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...

    Fireflies at El Mozote
  • 2018
    The Groveland Four

    The Groveland Four

    The Groveland Four

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    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...

    The Groveland Four
  • 1994
    Nightfighters: The True Story Of The 332nd Fighter Group--The Tuskegee Airmen

    Nightfighters: The True Story Of The 332nd Fighter Group--The Tuskegee Airmen

    Nightfighters: The True Story Of The 332nd Fighter Group--The Tuskegee Airmen

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    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...

    Nightfighters: The True Story Of The 332nd Fighter Group--The Tuskegee Airmen
  • 2018
    Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime

    Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime

    Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime

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    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...

    Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime
  • 2022
    Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp

    Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp

    Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp

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

    Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp
  • 2021
    Framing Britney Spears

    Framing Britney Spears

    Framing Britney Spears

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    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...

    Framing Britney Spears
  • 2022
    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

    02022HD

    The film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights...

    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America
  • 2010
    For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots

    For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots

    For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots

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    This High Definition, PBS miniseries uses letters, diaries, speeches, journalistic accounts, historical text and military records to document and...

    For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
  • 2025
    News Without A Newsroom

    News Without A Newsroom

    News Without A Newsroom

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    As local newsrooms vanish, "News Without a Newsroom" explores journalism's uncertain future in the digital age. Through powerful stories and expert...

    News Without A Newsroom
  • 2018
    1968

    1968

    1968

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    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...

    1968