Civil Rights Movies

Using unpublished photos taken by Italian war photographer Enrico Sarsini, and the reconstruction of key events, this film examines the battle for a...

With no choice, César faced leaving his family behind, quitting his job and joining the Army. In an unprecedented chain of events he became...

A historic three-day race riot erupted in two African American neighborhoods in the northern, mid-sized city of Rochester, New York. On the night of...

Pata Seca (1828), a man whose back bore the whip marks of his enslavers , whose eyes held the haunted memory of being forced to breed over 200 slave...

This film shines a light on a sorry and oft-forgotten chapter in US history— the forced sterilization of 7,600 people thought to have...

Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.

Anne Braden: Southern Patriot is a first person documentary about the extraordinary life of this American civil rights leader. Braden was hailed by...

This landmark documentary reveals the tragic life of a gifted young woman who was executed for speaking out during the height of Chairman Mao’s...

Orange Mound is a southeast Memphis neighborhood with a surprising legacy. With roots going back to the time of plantations and slavery, Orange Mound...

A documentary examining the life of civil rights organizer, Jack O'Dell, a close colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a force in his own...

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

Examines Civil Rights-era America through the prism of basketball at historically black colleges and universities.

When Georgia Tech came to Michigan in 1934, the Wolverines were forced to bench their best play, Willis Ward, because he was an African-American. The...

The story of racism, segregation and Civil Rights in America told through the lives of the Negro League baseball players. Features exclusive...

Mary Lou Breslin, co-founder of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership...

French documentary campaigning for the liberalization of abortion and contraception, directed by Charles Belmont and Marielle Issartel in 1973.

Tells of Aborigines' removal from their families to be sent to work as servants for white people and the rise of the first Aboriginal organisations...

See how New Deal-era Redlining maps delineated risk areas for federally-backed mortgages and home-ownership programs, resulting in a wealth gap that...

Short documentary examining a Black community’s decades-long battle to hold onto their land as city officials wielded eminent domain to...