Civil Rights Movies

  • 2018
    Through the Banks of the Red Cedar

    Through the Banks of the Red Cedar

    Through the Banks of the Red Cedar

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    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...

    Through the Banks of the Red Cedar
  • 1964
    The March

    The March

    The March

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    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...

    The March
  • 2021
    Controlling Britney Spears

    Controlling Britney Spears

    Controlling Britney Spears

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

    Controlling Britney Spears
  • 1963
    Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

    Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

    Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

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    During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F....

    Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1993
    The Ernest Green Story

    The Ernest Green Story

    The Ernest Green Story

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

    The Ernest Green Story
  • 2014
    The Story of Funk: One Nation Under a Groove

    The Story of Funk: One Nation Under a Groove

    The Story of Funk: One Nation Under a Groove

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    A documentary on funk and P-funk and the bands and artists that made it all happen: James Brown, Sly Stone, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Maurice...

    The Story of Funk: One Nation Under a Groove
  • 1994
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective

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    Documentary film focuses on the Civil Rights leader's many groundbreaking accomplishments. Footage covers Dr. King's war on poverty and his staunch...

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective
  • 2025
    Soul of the Desert

    Soul of the Desert

    Soul of the Desert

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    A documentary on the road that tracks the journey by Georgina, an elderly transgender woman forced to cross the sandy peninsula Guajira, on foot, to...

    Soul of the Desert
  • 1996
    All Power to the People!

    All Power to the People!

    All Power to the People!

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    Using government documents, archive footage and direct interviews with activists and former FBI/CIA officers, All Power to the People documents the...

    All Power to the People!
  • 1975
    Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

    Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

    Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

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    After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.

    Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
  • 2022
    Ablaze

    Ablaze

    Ablaze

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    A feature documentary about opera singer Tiriki Onus who finds a 70-year-old silent film believed to be made by his grandfather, Aboriginal leader...

    Ablaze
  • 2012
    Ghosts of Ole Miss

    Ghosts of Ole Miss

    Ghosts of Ole Miss

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    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...

    Ghosts of Ole Miss
  • 2016
    We The People 2.0

    We The People 2.0

    We The People 2.0

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    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
  • 2010
    Africa Light / Gray Zone

    Africa Light / Gray Zone

    Africa Light / Gray Zone

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    "Africa Light" - as white local citizens call Namibia. The name suggests romance, the beauty of nature and promises a life without any problems in a...

    Africa Light / Gray Zone
  • 2021
    The Son

    The Son

    The Son

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    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
  • 2023
    James Baldwin Abroad

    James Baldwin Abroad

    James Baldwin Abroad

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    Showcasing three short films by American writer James Baldwin, wherein he muses about race, sexuality and civil rights, among other topics, in...

    James Baldwin Abroad
  • 2018
    1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond

    1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond

    1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond

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    The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the May events in France, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F....

    1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond
  • 2017
    A Letter to Claudette Colvin

    A Letter to Claudette Colvin

    A Letter to Claudette Colvin

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    A short film entitled "A Letter To Claudette Colvin", written and directed by Victoria Wilson bringing awareness to Colvin's involvement in the...

    A Letter to Claudette Colvin