Civil Rights Movies

A thought-provoking, humanistic portrait of a Chicago nurse who risked her personal freedom and was imprisoned in civil rights demonstrations and...

Follows the young people of Selma, Alabama's RATCo (Random Acts of Theatre Company) as they journey to New York City to share their story of hope,...

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...

Guy Hircefeld, a veteran who served in the Israeli military at the start of its occupation of Palestine in the 1980s, now fights against the Israeli...

Oscar nominated documentary short from 2008

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

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

Pikilina is a Dominican-born woman of Haitian descent. Racial and political violence erupts when the country of her birth, the Dominican Republic,...

Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color line in 1947, but it took another generation of Black and Latino players to make the sport truly open to...

July, 1949: four young black men are wrongly accused of rape by a 17-year-old farm wife in rural Lake County, Florida. The case of “The...

In Athens, Georgia, a college fraternity traditionally known to fly the confederate flag moves to a historically Black neighborhood and establishes...

A film about Florida's little-known investigative committee of the State Legislature from 1956-1964. The committee's aim was to root out homosexual...

A group of longtime Chicago residents born in the Mississippi Delta returns to Greenville, Mississippi, for a reunion with family and friends....

The story of the organizing of the first black trade union - The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters - provides an account of African American...

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...

The PRATT in the HAT is a short film about Frances Pratt, her hats, her wit, and her civil rights leadership which began in 1957 and continues till...

Two dedicated high school band directors—one black, one white—were inspired by music to cross the color lines of segregation and work...

Eyewitness accounts recall when Klansmen attacked a bus filled with Freedom Riders in Anniston, Ala. and set it on fire.