Civil Rights Movies

  • 2018
    The Uncomfortable Truth

    The Uncomfortable Truth

    The Uncomfortable Truth

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    When the award-winning filmmaker of "An Ordinary Hero", Loki Mulholland, dives into the 400 year history of institutional racism in America he is...

    The Uncomfortable Truth
  • 2014
    The Story of Funk: One Nation Under a Groove

    The Story of Funk: One Nation Under a Groove

    The Story of Funk: One Nation Under a Groove

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    A documentary on funk and P-funk and the bands and artists that made it all happen: James Brown, Sly Stone, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Maurice...

    The Story of Funk: One Nation Under a Groove
  • 2017
    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

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    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...

    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
  • 1989
    James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

    James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

    James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

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    James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling...

    James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
  • 2018
    Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald

    Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald

    Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald

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    On the anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, Sir Trevor McDonald travels to the Deep South of America to get closer to the man who meant so much...

    Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
  • 1999
    Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story

    Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story

    Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story

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    The Lori Jackson Story - A civil rights campaigner, Lori Jackson, champions the the cause of a black marine convicted of rape, as she thinks he is...

    Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
  • 2019
    Obaida

    Obaida

    Obaida

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    OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian...

    Obaida
  • 2016
    Rogues In Robes

    Rogues In Robes

    Rogues In Robes

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    A clinical review of judicial corruption, the good and the bad guys showcased. The need for complete, federal and state judicial reform, term limits,...

    Rogues In Robes
  • 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
  • 2022
    Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp

    Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp

    Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp

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    The story of the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans and the loss of civil rights.

    Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp
  • 2022
    Still We Rise

    Still We Rise

    Still We Rise

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    50 years on, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is the oldest continuing protest occupation site in the world. Taking a fresh lens this is a bold dive into...

    Still We Rise
  • 2008
    The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306

    The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306

    The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306

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    Oscar nominated documentary short from 2008

    The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306
  • 2007
    The Red Elvis

    The Red Elvis

    The Red Elvis

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    A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.

    The Red Elvis
  • 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
  • 2004
    Home of the Brave

    Home of the Brave

    Home of the Brave

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    Documentary on the civil rights activist, Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered in 1965 as she campaigned for black suffrage in Selma, Alabama, and its...

    Home of the Brave
  • 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
  • 2021
    Controlling Britney Spears

    Controlling Britney Spears

    Controlling Britney Spears

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    Britney Spears has said that her conservatorship had become “an oppressive and controlling tool against her”. This New York Times...

    Controlling Britney Spears
  • 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
  • 1970
    Fireflies at El Mozote

    Fireflies at El Mozote

    Fireflies at El Mozote

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    During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio...

    Fireflies at El Mozote
  • 2011
    Black and Blue

    Black and Blue

    Black and Blue

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    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...

    Black and Blue