Civil Rights Movies

  • 2006
    When I Find the Ocean

    When I Find the Ocean

    When I Find the Ocean

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    A little girl leaves home with her pet dog and rabbit to escape abuse and find the ocean in the hopes of feeling closer to her father who has passed...

    When I Find the Ocean
  • 2022
    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

    Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

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    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
  • 2017
    LBJ

    LBJ

    LBJ

    6.42017HD

    The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.

    LBJ
  • 2007
    Rendition

    Rendition

    Rendition

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    When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught...

    Rendition
  • 2016
    Loving

    Loving

    Loving

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    The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led...

    Loving
  • 1983
    Danton

    Danton

    Danton

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    Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to...

    Danton
  • 2004
    Home of the Brave

    Home of the Brave

    Home of the Brave

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    Documentary on the civil rights activist, Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered in 1965 as she campaigned for black suffrage in Selma, Alabama, and its...

    Home of the Brave
  • 2014
    Breath of Freedom

    Breath of Freedom

    Breath of Freedom

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    In World War II. African-American GIs liberate Germany from Nazi rule while racism prevailed in their own army and home country. Returning home they...

    Breath of Freedom
  • 1986
    Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?

    Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?

    Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?

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    The film questions whether the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s effectively changed the Black community, and American society more widely, and...

    Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?
  • 1970
    Fireflies at El Mozote

    Fireflies at El Mozote

    Fireflies at El Mozote

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    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
  • 2016
    Political Animals

    Political Animals

    Political Animals

    5.52016HD

    The story of four pioneering lesbian politicians and the battles they fought to pass a wide range of anti-discrimination laws.

    Political Animals
  • 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
  • 2005
    Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

    Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

    Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

    3.62005HD

    The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in...

    Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
  • 2017
    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

    6.22017HD

    On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the...

    Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
  • 2013
    Lyndon B. Johnson - Succeeding Kennedy

    Lyndon B. Johnson - Succeeding Kennedy

    Lyndon B. Johnson - Succeeding Kennedy

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    Lyndon B. Johnson - Succeeding Kennedy
  • 2011
    Nefarious: Merchant of Souls

    Nefarious: Merchant of Souls

    Nefarious: Merchant of Souls

    5.22011HD

    Travel across four continents, through 19 countries, and into dingy Cambodian karaoke bars, Amsterdam’s infamous red-light district, Moldovan...

    Nefarious: Merchant of Souls
  • 2008
    The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306

    The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306

    The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306

    5.52008HD

    Oscar nominated documentary short from 2008

    The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306
  • 2014
    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

    1.52014HD

    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
  • 2010
    A Good Day to Die

    A Good Day to Die

    A Good Day to Die

    6.52010HD

    Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader who looks back at his early life and the rise of...

    A Good Day to Die
  • 2016
    Two Trains Runnin'

    Two Trains Runnin'

    Two Trains Runnin'

    7.22016HD

    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...

    Two Trains Runnin'