Civil Rights Movies

  • 1949
    Clues to Adventure

    Clues to Adventure

    Clues to Adventure

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    This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provisions - freedom of speech, freedom of the press,...

    Clues to Adventure
  • 2022
    Ablaze

    Ablaze

    Ablaze

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    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...

    Ablaze
  • 2009
    Democracy Is ...

    Democracy Is ...

    Democracy Is ...

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    The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it? Or is the act of being part in democracy...

    Democracy Is ...
  • 1986
    Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?

    Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?

    Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?

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    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?
  • 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

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    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
  • 2018
    The Jazz Ambassadors

    The Jazz Ambassadors

    The Jazz Ambassadors

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    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...

    The Jazz Ambassadors
  • 2019
    Obaida

    Obaida

    Obaida

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

    Obaida
  • 2022
    Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream

    Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream

    Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream

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    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...

    Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream
  • 2022
    Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp

    Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp

    Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp

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

    Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp
  • 2010
    A Good Day to Die

    A Good Day to Die

    A Good Day to Die

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    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...

    A Good Day to Die
  • 1960
    Integration Report 1

    Integration Report 1

    Integration Report 1

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

    Integration Report 1
  • 2000
    Denying Brazil

    Denying Brazil

    Denying Brazil

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    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
  • 2002
    Information Violence

    Information Violence

    Information Violence

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    Information Violence
  • 2016
    Political Animals

    Political Animals

    Political Animals

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

    Political Animals
  • 1968
    Baldwin's Nigger

    Baldwin's Nigger

    Baldwin's Nigger

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

    Baldwin's Nigger
  • 2022
    Still We Rise

    Still We Rise

    Still We Rise

    02022HD

    50 years on, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is the oldest continuing protest occupation site in the world. Taking a fresh lens this is a bold dive into...

    Still We Rise
  • 2018
    The Gospel of Eureka

    The Gospel of Eureka

    The Gospel of Eureka

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    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
  • 2018
    The Uncomfortable Truth

    The Uncomfortable Truth

    The Uncomfortable Truth

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    When the award-winning filmmaker of "An Ordinary Hero", Loki Mulholland, dives into the 400 year history of institutional racism in America he is...

    The Uncomfortable Truth
  • 1956
    A City Decides

    A City Decides

    A City Decides

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    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...

    A City Decides
  • 2023
    The Cost of Inheritance

    The Cost of Inheritance

    The Cost of Inheritance

    02023HD

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

    The Cost of Inheritance