Civil Rights Movies
- 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...
- 2017
Get In The Way: The Journey of John Lewis
Get In The Way: The Journey of John Lewis02017HD
Biographical documentary about John Lewis, the civil rights icon, respected legislator and elder statesman who continues to practice nonviolence in...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 2016
Political Animals
Political Animals5.52016HD
The story of four pioneering lesbian politicians and the battles they fought to pass a wide range of anti-discrimination laws.
- 2018
1968
196802018HD
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...
- 2012
Ghosts of Ole Miss
Ghosts of Ole Miss72012HD
In the fall of 1962, a dramatic series of events made Civil Rights history and changed a way of life. On the eve of James Meredith becoming the first...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2016
Two Trains Runnin'
Two Trains Runnin'7.22016HD
The search of several young, white men for blues singers who have been missing for decades coincides with the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in...
- 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...
- 2018
Guy Hircefeld: A Guy with a Camera
Guy Hircefeld: A Guy with a Camera02018HD
Guy Hircefeld, a veteran who served in the Israeli military at the start of its occupation of Palestine in the 1980s, now fights against the Israeli...
- 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,...
- 1970
TRANS*CEND: A Journey from Gender to Self
TRANS*CEND: A Journey from Gender to Self01970HD
In January of 2016, a dozen members of the Memphis transgender community began meeting for a weekly story circle facilitated by Elaine Blanchard. The...
- 2023
The Cost of Inheritance
The Cost of Inheritance02023HD
The decades-long debate surrounding reparations is fraught, mired in racial tension and the semantics of restorative justice. While the national...
- 2005
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria4.22005HD
The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in...
- 2002
Information Violence
Information Violence102002HD
- 1994
Freedom on My Mind
Freedom on My Mind6.91994HD
Chronicles the Mississippi voter registration drive from 1961-1964.
- 1956
A City Decides
A City Decides5.71956HD
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...
- 1968
Baldwin's Nigger
Baldwin's Nigger6.61968HD
James Baldwin and Dick Gregory discuss the Civil Rights Movement in 1960s Great Britain.