Civil Rights Movies
- 2022
Redlining: Mapping Inequality in Dayton & Springfield
Redlining: Mapping Inequality in Dayton & Springfield02022HD
See how New Deal-era Redlining maps delineated risk areas for federally-backed mortgages and home-ownership programs, resulting in a wealth gap that...
- 2022
Fannie Lou Hamer’s America
Fannie Lou Hamer’s America02022HD
The film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights...
- 2016
We The People 2.0
We The People 2.002016HD
American citizens who are normally marginalized, forgotten and left to fend against toxic dumps and other violations, come to understand that the...
- 1979
Lawman Without a Gun
Lawman Without a Gun01979HD
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...
- 2021
The Son
The Son02021HD
Using unpublished photos taken by Italian war photographer Enrico Sarsini, and the reconstruction of key events, this film examines the battle for a...
- 2021
The Fire in Anniston: A Freedom Riders Story
The Fire in Anniston: A Freedom Riders Story02021HD
Eyewitness accounts recall when Klansmen attacked a bus filled with Freedom Riders in Anniston, Ala. and set it on fire.
- 2021
The Pratt in the Hat
The Pratt in the Hat02021HD
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...
- 2021
Ferguson Rises
Ferguson Rises02021HD
Before George Floyd, before Breonna Taylor, before America knew about Black Lives Matter, there was Michael Brown, Jr. On August 9th, 2014, in...
- 2009
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska02009HD
In 1867, when the United States purchased the Alaska territory, the promise of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights didn't apply to Alaska...
- 2020
The Issue of Mr. O'Dell
The Issue of Mr. O'Dell02020HD
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...
- 2020
We Are George Floyd
We Are George Floyd02020HD
On May 25th, 2020, Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer, murdered George Floyd, a black man, by driving his knee into George's neck for 8...
- 2019
The Other Boys of Summer
The Other Boys of Summer02019HD
The story of racism, segregation and Civil Rights in America told through the lives of the Negro League baseball players. Features exclusive...
- 2019
Obaida
Obaida02019HD
OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian...
- 2011
Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life02011HD
Weaving together the voices of women entangled in the criminal justice system, along with leading scholars on prison abolition, this film provides a...
- 2018
1968
196802018HD
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...
- 2019
Jim Crow of the North
Jim Crow of the North02019HD
Roots of racial disparities are seen through a new lens in this film that explores the origins of housing segregation in the Minneapolis area. But...
- 2019
Massacre River
Massacre River02019HD
Pikilina is a Dominican-born woman of Haitian descent. Racial and political violence erupts when the country of her birth, the Dominican Republic,...
- 2016
The Third Man
The Third Man02016HD
The moment where American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their gloved hands in defiance on the podium at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics...
- 1970
Fireflies at El Mozote
Fireflies at El Mozote01970HD
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...
- 2018
Indian Rights for Indian Women
Indian Rights for Indian Women02018HD
Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.