Civil Rights Movies

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

A look at the life and music of legendary singer and civil rights activist, Mavis Staples.

The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz...

An archival documentary about the U.S. military’s response to the political and racial injustices of the late 1960s: take a military base,...

In 1963 at Michigan State University, Head Coach Duffy Daugherty chose 23 black men to play on the college team. From this move came legends Gene...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

A Colorado family is thrust into the international media spotlight when they fight for the rights of their 6-year-old transgender daughter in a...

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

Documentary about the final five, turbulent years in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King. The story begins at the Lincoln Memorial...

The March, also known as The March to Washington, is a 1964 documentary film by James Blue about the 1963 civil rights March on Washington. It was...

In the fall of 1962, a dramatic series of events made Civil Rights history and changed a way of life. On the eve of James Meredith becoming the first...

Chronicles the Mississippi voter registration drive from 1961-1964.

1964 was the year the Beatles came to America, Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali, and three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi. It was...