Civil Rights Movies

When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught u...

Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurat...

A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.

In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military...

Stories and music of Black artists who relied on an underground travel guide to navigate the injustices of racial segregation while on the road. The N...

Chronicles over four centuries of African American influence on the development of the modern-day United States. Before Plymouth Rock and Jamestown, S...

The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the establishment...

An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers clea...

Ossie Davis, Terry McMillan, Horace Julian Bond, Isaac Hayes, Dionne Warwick and many others share their inspiring stories of success in the first ins...

Showcasing three short films by American writer James Baldwin, wherein he muses about race, sexuality and civil rights, among other topics, in Istanbu...

After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.

This High Definition, PBS miniseries uses letters, diaries, speeches, journalistic accounts, historical text and military records to document and ackn...

A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made...

The film questions whether the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s effectively changed the Black community, and American society more widely, and exami...

Gloria Allred overcame trauma and personal setbacks to become one of the nation’s most famous women’s rights attorneys. Now the feminist firebrand tak...

Using government documents, archive footage and direct interviews with activists and former FBI/CIA officers, All Power to the People documents the hi...

Using unpublished photos taken by Italian war photographer Enrico Sarsini, and the reconstruction of key events, this film examines the battle for a s...

Weaving together the voices of women entangled in the criminal justice system, along with leading scholars on prison abolition, this film provides a c...

Since her debut at the age of 18, musician, civil rights campaigner and activist Joan Baez has been on stage for over 60 years. For the now 82-year-ol...