Civil Rights Movies

  • 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?
  • 2017
    Get In The Way: The Journey of John Lewis

    Get In The Way: The Journey of John Lewis

    Get In The Way: The Journey of John Lewis

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    Biographical documentary about John Lewis, the civil rights icon, respected legislator and elder statesman who continues to practice nonviolence in...

    Get In The Way: The Journey of John Lewis
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2012
    Ghosts of Ole Miss

    Ghosts of Ole Miss

    Ghosts of Ole Miss

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    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...

    Ghosts of Ole Miss
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2016
    Two Trains Runnin'

    Two Trains Runnin'

    Two Trains Runnin'

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    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...

    Two Trains Runnin'
  • 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
  • 2018
    Guy Hircefeld: A Guy with a Camera

    Guy Hircefeld: A Guy with a Camera

    Guy Hircefeld: A Guy with a Camera

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    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...

    Guy Hircefeld: A Guy with a Camera
  • 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
  • 1970
    TRANS*CEND: A Journey from Gender to Self

    TRANS*CEND: A Journey from Gender to Self

    TRANS*CEND: A Journey from Gender to Self

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    In January of 2016, a dozen members of the Memphis transgender community began meeting for a weekly story circle facilitated by Elaine Blanchard. The...

    TRANS*CEND: A Journey from Gender to Self
  • 2023
    The Cost of Inheritance

    The Cost of Inheritance

    The Cost of Inheritance

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    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
  • 2005
    Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

    Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

    Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

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    The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in...

    Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
  • 2002
    Information Violence

    Information Violence

    Information Violence

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    Information Violence
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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