Civil Rights Movies

  • 2014
    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

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    In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love,...

    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
  • 1974
    Lenny

    Lenny

    Lenny

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

    Lenny
  • 2015
    What Happened, Miss Simone?

    What Happened, Miss Simone?

    What Happened, Miss Simone?

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    The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate activist, told in her own words.

    What Happened, Miss Simone?
  • 2020
    Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

    Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

    Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

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    Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers, transforming their young...

    Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
  • 1985
    And the Children Shall Lead

    And the Children Shall Lead

    And the Children Shall Lead

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    Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease...

    And the Children Shall Lead
  • 2008
    Gospel Hill

    Gospel Hill

    Gospel Hill

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    Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of a...

    Gospel Hill
  • 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
  • 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
    Civil: Ben Crump

    Civil: Ben Crump

    Civil: Ben Crump

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    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...

    Civil: Ben Crump
  • 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
  • 1989
    Blaze

    Blaze

    Blaze

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

    Blaze
  • 1991
    Separate But Equal

    Separate But Equal

    Separate But Equal

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    A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.

    Separate But Equal
  • 1994
    But... Seriously

    But... Seriously

    But... Seriously

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

    But... Seriously
  • 2019
    The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

    The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

    The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

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    In 1936, Victor H. Green (1892-1960) published The Negro Motorist Green Book, a book that was both a travel guide and a survival manual, to help...

    The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
  • 2024
    In Search of Bass Reeves

    In Search of Bass Reeves

    In Search of Bass Reeves

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    By the end of his illustrious career, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves may well have been the preeminent lawman of the Old West. He brought upwards of...

    In Search of Bass Reeves
  • 1979
    Lawman Without a Gun

    Lawman Without a Gun

    Lawman Without a Gun

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    During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a...

    Lawman Without a Gun
  • 2018
    Seeing Allred

    Seeing Allred

    Seeing Allred

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

    Seeing Allred
  • 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
  • 2020
    Coded Bias

    Coded Bias

    Coded Bias

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

    Coded Bias
  • 2010
    Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride

    Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride

    Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride

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    Over the course of a year, film follows Vancouver Pride Society president Ken Coolen to various international Pride events, including Poland,...

    Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride