Civil Rights Movies

OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian...

This chilling reflection examines the horrific history of lynchings as cultural events and celebrations that included souvenirs and postcards.

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

Orange Mound is a southeast Memphis neighborhood with a surprising legacy. With roots going back to the time of plantations and slavery, Orange Mound...

This documentary film tells the dramatic story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple living in Virginia in the 1950s, and their...

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

Since her debut at the age of 18, musician, civil rights campaigner and activist Joan Baez has been on stage for over 60 years. For the now...

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

The real dream of the American pastor Martin Luther King was never limited to civil rights. He hoped for a just America, where poverty would no...

A historic three-day race riot erupted in two African American neighborhoods in the northern, mid-sized city of Rochester, New York. On the night of...

In January of 2016, a dozen members of the Memphis transgender community began meeting for a weekly story circle facilitated by Elaine Blanchard. The...

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

A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian television "soaps". Based on his own memories and on a...

A Colorado family is thrust into the international media spotlight when they fight for the rights of their 6-year-old transgender daughter in a...

By the end of his illustrious career, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves may well have been the preeminent lawman of the Old West. He brought upwards of...

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.

When Georgia Tech came to Michigan in 1934, the Wolverines were forced to bench their best play, Willis Ward, because he was an African-American. The...

Investigates the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the...

The story of racism, segregation and Civil Rights in America told through the lives of the Negro League baseball players. Features exclusive...