Civil Rights Movies
- 1996
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2004
Home of the Brave
Home of the Brave102004HD
Documentary on the civil rights activist, Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered in 1965 as she campaigned for black suffrage in Selma, Alabama, and its...
- 1964
The March
The March71964HD
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...
- 2007
The Red Elvis
The Red Elvis7.252007HD
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.
- 2022
Riotsville, USA
Riotsville, USA6.22022HD
An archival documentary about the U.S. military’s response to the political and racial injustices of the late 1960s: take a military base,...
- 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...
- 1994
Freedom on My Mind
Freedom on My Mind6.91994HD
Chronicles the Mississippi voter registration drive from 1961-1964.
- 1989
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket1.51989HD
James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling...
- 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...
- 1982
Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle
Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle01982HD
The story of the organizing of the first black trade union - The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters - provides an account of African American...
- 2011
Nefarious: Merchant of Souls
Nefarious: Merchant of Souls6.22011HD
Travel across four continents, through 19 countries, and into dingy Cambodian karaoke bars, Amsterdam’s infamous red-light district, Moldovan...
- 2015
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...
- 2019
Obaida
Obaida02019HD
OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian...
- 2025
Soul of the Desert
Soul of the Desert52025HD
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2000
Denying Brazil
Denying Brazil8.22000HD
A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian television "soaps". Based on his own memories and on a...