Civil Rights Movies
- 2018
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald02018HD
On the anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, Sir Trevor McDonald travels to the Deep South of America to get closer to the man who meant so much...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 2022
Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream
Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream92022HD
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...
- 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...
- 2021
Controlling Britney Spears
Controlling Britney Spears7.72021HD
Britney Spears has said that her conservatorship had become “an oppressive and controlling tool against her”. This New York Times...
- 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...
- 2021
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day82021HD
This chilling reflection examines the horrific history of lynchings as cultural events and celebrations that included souvenirs and postcards.
- 2018
The Gospel of Eureka
The Gospel of Eureka4.82018HD
Faith, love and civil rights collide on voting day in a small Southern town that hosts a famous performance of the last days of Christ and an...
- 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...
- 2022
Ablaze
Ablaze7.52022HD
A feature documentary about opera singer Tiriki Onus who finds a 70-year-old silent film believed to be made by his grandfather, Aboriginal leader...
- 1994
Freedom on My Mind
Freedom on My Mind6.91994HD
Chronicles the Mississippi voter registration drive from 1961-1964.
- 2010
A Good Day to Die
A Good Day to Die6.52010HD
Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader who looks back at his early life and the rise of...
- 1994
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
Malcolm X: Make It Plain101994HD
Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood,...
- 2018
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...
- 1949
Clues to Adventure
Clues to Adventure61949HD
This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provisions - freedom of speech, freedom of the press,...
- 2008
Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution
Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution72008HD
The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating light in the anniversary year 2008. The film is a...
- 2016
The Third Man
The Third Man02016HD
The moment where American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their gloved hands in defiance on the podium at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics...
- 2009
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska02009HD
In 1867, when the United States purchased the Alaska territory, the promise of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights didn't apply to Alaska...