Civil Rights Movies

An examination of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s in the UK, surveying both the individuals and the cultural forces that defined the era. ...

When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother's search for justice and reconciliation...

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

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...

Before George Floyd, before Breonna Taylor, before America knew about Black Lives Matter, there was Michael Brown, Jr. On August 9th, 2014, in...

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

Steal This Film focuses on Pirate Bay founders Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde, prominent members of the Swedish filesharing...

Crump's mission to raise the value of Black life as the civil lawyer for the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Black farmers and banking...

American citizens who are normally marginalized, forgotten and left to fend against toxic dumps and other violations, come to understand that the...

This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provisions - freedom of speech, freedom of the press,...

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...

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

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

Documentary on the life of Harlem Globetrotters legend, Jumpin' Johnny Kline, who barnstormed in the tumultuous Civil Rights era of the 1950s. From a...

Documentary film focuses on the Civil Rights leader's many groundbreaking accomplishments. Footage covers Dr. King's war on poverty and his staunch...

This documentary film tells the dramatic story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple living in Virginia in the 1950s, and their...

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...

On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the...

Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and...

Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.