Civil Rights Movies
- 2014
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee1.52014HD
In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love,...
- 1974
Lenny
Lenny7.31974HD
The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the establishment...
- 2015
What Happened, Miss Simone?
What Happened, Miss Simone?7.4092015HD
The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate activist, told in her own words.
- 2020
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution7.1492020HD
Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers, transforming their young...
- 1985
And the Children Shall Lead
And the Children Shall Lead101985HD
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...
- 2008
Gospel Hill
Gospel Hill4.82008HD
Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of a...
- 2022
Ablaze
Ablaze7.52022HD
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...
- 2021
Controlling Britney Spears
Controlling Britney Spears7.72021HD
Britney Spears has said that her conservatorship had become “an oppressive and controlling tool against her”. This New York Times...
- 2022
Civil: Ben Crump
Civil: Ben Crump7.42022HD
Crump's mission to raise the value of Black life as the civil lawyer for the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Black farmers and banking...
- 2022
Still We Rise
Still We Rise02022HD
50 years on, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is the oldest continuing protest occupation site in the world. Taking a fresh lens this is a bold dive into...
- 1989
Blaze
Blaze6.2131989HD
A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made...
- 1991
Separate But Equal
Separate But Equal6.51991HD
A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
- 1994
But... Seriously
But... Seriously101994HD
A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.
- 2019
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom7.72019HD
In 1936, Victor H. Green (1892-1960) published The Negro Motorist Green Book, a book that was both a travel guide and a survival manual, to help...
- 2024
In Search of Bass Reeves
In Search of Bass Reeves5.72024HD
By the end of his illustrious career, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves may well have been the preeminent lawman of the Old West. He brought upwards of...
- 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...
- 2018
Seeing Allred
Seeing Allred6.92018HD
Gloria Allred overcame trauma and personal setbacks to become one of the nation’s most famous women’s rights attorneys. Now the feminist...
- 2018
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald02018HD
On the anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, Sir Trevor McDonald travels to the Deep South of America to get closer to the man who meant so much...
- 2020
Coded Bias
Coded Bias72020HD
Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces...
- 2010
Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride
Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride4.42010HD
Over the course of a year, film follows Vancouver Pride Society president Ken Coolen to various international Pride events, including Poland,...