Civil Rights Movies

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

Tells of Aborigines' removal from their families to be sent to work as servants for white people and the rise of the first Aboriginal organisations...

Weaving together the voices of women entangled in the criminal justice system, along with leading scholars on prison abolition, this film provides a...

Integration Report 1, Madeline Anderson's trailblazing debut, was the first known documentary by an African American female director. With tenacity,...

Guy Hircefeld, a veteran who served in the Israeli military at the start of its occupation of Palestine in the 1980s, now fights against the Israeli...

When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother's search for justice and reconciliation...

The decades-long debate surrounding reparations is fraught, mired in racial tension and the semantics of restorative justice. While the national...

The Lori Jackson Story - A civil rights campaigner, Lori Jackson, champions the the cause of a black marine convicted of rape, as she thinks he is...

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

A City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in 1954. An Oscar-nominated short documentary from...

For over 85 years, steamship Ste. Claire transported generations of Detroiters to Boblo Island, an amusement park nestled in the waters between the...

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...

James Baldwin and Dick Gregory discuss the Civil Rights Movement in 1960s Great Britain.

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

The story of four pioneering lesbian politicians and the battles they fought to pass a wide range of anti-discrimination laws.

Documentary on the civil rights activist, Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered in 1965 as she campaigned for black suffrage in Selma, Alabama, and its...

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

The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in...