Civil Rights Movies

  • 2022
    Redlining: Mapping Inequality in Dayton & Springfield

    Redlining: Mapping Inequality in Dayton & Springfield

    Redlining: Mapping Inequality in Dayton & Springfield

    02022HD

    See how New Deal-era Redlining maps delineated risk areas for federally-backed mortgages and home-ownership programs, resulting in a wealth gap that...

    Redlining: Mapping Inequality in Dayton & Springfield
  • 2022
    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

    02022HD

    The film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights...

    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America
  • 2016
    We The People 2.0

    We The People 2.0

    We The People 2.0

    02016HD

    American citizens who are normally marginalized, forgotten and left to fend against toxic dumps and other violations, come to understand that the...

    We The People 2.0
  • 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
  • 2021
    The Son

    The Son

    The Son

    02021HD

    Using unpublished photos taken by Italian war photographer Enrico Sarsini, and the reconstruction of key events, this film examines the battle for a...

    The Son
  • 2021
    The Fire in Anniston: A Freedom Riders Story

    The Fire in Anniston: A Freedom Riders Story

    The Fire in Anniston: A Freedom Riders Story

    02021HD

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

    The Fire in Anniston: A Freedom Riders Story
  • 2021
    The Pratt in the Hat

    The Pratt in the Hat

    The Pratt in the Hat

    02021HD

    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...

    The Pratt in the Hat
  • 2021
    Ferguson Rises

    Ferguson Rises

    Ferguson Rises

    02021HD

    Before George Floyd, before Breonna Taylor, before America knew about Black Lives Matter, there was Michael Brown, Jr. On August 9th, 2014, in...

    Ferguson Rises
  • 2009
    For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska

    For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska

    For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska

    02009HD

    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...

    For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
  • 2020
    The Issue of Mr. O'Dell

    The Issue of Mr. O'Dell

    The Issue of Mr. O'Dell

    02020HD

    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...

    The Issue of Mr. O'Dell
  • 2020
    We Are George Floyd

    We Are George Floyd

    We Are George Floyd

    02020HD

    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...

    We Are George Floyd
  • 2019
    The Other Boys of Summer

    The Other Boys of Summer

    The Other Boys of Summer

    02019HD

    The story of racism, segregation and Civil Rights in America told through the lives of the Negro League baseball players. Features exclusive...

    The Other Boys of Summer
  • 2019
    Obaida

    Obaida

    Obaida

    02019HD

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

    Obaida
  • 2011
    Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life

    Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life

    Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life

    02011HD

    Weaving together the voices of women entangled in the criminal justice system, along with leading scholars on prison abolition, this film provides a...

    Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
  • 2018
    1968

    1968

    1968

    02018HD

    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
  • 2019
    Jim Crow of the North

    Jim Crow of the North

    Jim Crow of the North

    02019HD

    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...

    Jim Crow of the North
  • 2019
    Massacre River

    Massacre River

    Massacre River

    02019HD

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

    Massacre River
  • 2016
    The Third Man

    The Third Man

    The Third Man

    02016HD

    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...

    The Third Man
  • 1970
    Fireflies at El Mozote

    Fireflies at El Mozote

    Fireflies at El Mozote

    01970HD

    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
  • 2018
    Indian Rights for Indian Women

    Indian Rights for Indian Women

    Indian Rights for Indian Women

    02018HD

    Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.

    Indian Rights for Indian Women