Civil Rights Movies

  • 1996
    All Power to the People!

    All Power to the People!

    All Power to the People!

    5.81996HD

    Using government documents, archive footage and direct interviews with activists and former FBI/CIA officers, All Power to the People documents the...

    All Power to the People!
  • 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

    72010HD

    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
  • 2018
    The Gospel of Eureka

    The Gospel of Eureka

    The Gospel of Eureka

    4.82018HD

    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...

    The Gospel of Eureka
  • 2009
    For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska

    For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska

    For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska

    02009HD

    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...

    For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
  • 2004
    Home of the Brave

    Home of the Brave

    Home of the Brave

    102004HD

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

    Home of the Brave
  • 1964
    The March

    The March

    The March

    71964HD

    The March, also known as The March to Washington, is a 1964 documentary film by James Blue about the 1963 civil rights March on Washington. It was...

    The March
  • 2007
    The Red Elvis

    The Red Elvis

    The Red Elvis

    7.252007HD

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

    The Red Elvis
  • 2022
    Riotsville, USA

    Riotsville, USA

    Riotsville, USA

    6.22022HD

    An archival documentary about the U.S. military’s response to the political and racial injustices of the late 1960s: take a military base,...

    Riotsville, USA
  • 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
  • 1994
    Freedom on My Mind

    Freedom on My Mind

    Freedom on My Mind

    6.91994HD

    Chronicles the Mississippi voter registration drive from 1961-1964.

    Freedom on My Mind
  • 1989
    James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

    James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

    James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

    1.51989HD

    James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling...

    James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
  • 2018
    Through the Banks of the Red Cedar

    Through the Banks of the Red Cedar

    Through the Banks of the Red Cedar

    6.52018HD

    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...

    Through the Banks of the Red Cedar
  • 1982
    Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle

    Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle

    Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle

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    The story of the organizing of the first black trade union - The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters - provides an account of African American...

    Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle
  • 2011
    Nefarious: Merchant of Souls

    Nefarious: Merchant of Souls

    Nefarious: Merchant of Souls

    6.22011HD

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

    Nefarious: Merchant of Souls
  • 2015
    Klansville U.S.A.

    Klansville U.S.A.

    Klansville U.S.A.

    6.82015HD

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

    Klansville U.S.A.
  • 2019
    Obaida

    Obaida

    Obaida

    02019HD

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

    Obaida
  • 2025
    Soul of the Desert

    Soul of the Desert

    Soul of the Desert

    52025HD

    A documentary on the road that tracks the journey by Georgina, an elderly transgender woman forced to cross the sandy peninsula Guajira, on foot, to...

    Soul of the Desert
  • 2016
    The Third Man

    The Third Man

    The Third Man

    02016HD

    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...

    The Third Man
  • 1986
    Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?

    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...

    Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
  • 2000
    Denying Brazil

    Denying Brazil

    Denying Brazil

    8.22000HD

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

    Denying Brazil