Civil Rights Movies

  • 2018
    Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald

    Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald

    Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald

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    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...

    Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2018
    Through the Banks of the Red Cedar

    Through the Banks of the Red Cedar

    Through the Banks of the Red Cedar

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    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
  • 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
    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

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    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
  • 2021
    Controlling Britney Spears

    Controlling Britney Spears

    Controlling Britney Spears

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    Britney Spears has said that her conservatorship had become “an oppressive and controlling tool against her”. This New York Times...

    Controlling Britney Spears
  • 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?
  • 2021
    Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day

    Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day

    Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day

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    This chilling reflection examines the horrific history of lynchings as cultural events and celebrations that included souvenirs and postcards.

    Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
  • 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
  • 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

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    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
  • 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
  • 1994
    Freedom on My Mind

    Freedom on My Mind

    Freedom on My Mind

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    Chronicles the Mississippi voter registration drive from 1961-1964.

    Freedom on My Mind
  • 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
  • 1994
    Malcolm X: Make It Plain

    Malcolm X: Make It Plain

    Malcolm X: Make It Plain

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    Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood,...

    Malcolm X: Make It Plain
  • 2018
    1968

    1968

    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...

    1968
  • 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
  • 2008
    Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution

    Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution

    Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution

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    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...

    Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution
  • 2016
    The Third Man

    The Third Man

    The Third Man

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    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
  • 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