Civil Rights Movies

THE BLACK LIST: VOL. 2 profiles some of today's most fascinating African-Americans. From the childhood inspirations that shaped their ambitions, to...

An MPB Original Production honoring the life, work, and impact of one of Mississippi’s most courageous voices. This powerful two-hour...

Two strangers in their 50s, both going through pivotal moments in their lives, meet on a hike in Sedona and share a deep connection as they talk...

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

Since her debut at the age of 18, musician, civil rights campaigner and activist Joan Baez has been on stage for over 60 years. For the now...

A motel owner in Texas is accused of raping a civil-rights worker from Sweden.

In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love,...

Investigates the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the...

An examination of the heated debate and conflict between W.E.B DuBois and William Monroe Trotter with Booker T. Washington on how to best uplift the...

Exceptionally talented actor and bridge-builder between black and white, a political icon and artist at the same time: that was Sidney Poitier. He...

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

This documentary film tells the dramatic story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple living in Virginia in the 1950s, and their...

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....

A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.

An examination of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s in the UK, surveying both the individuals and the cultural forces that defined the era. ...

Ossie Davis, Terry McMillan, Horace Julian Bond, Isaac Hayes, Dionne Warwick and many others share their inspiring stories of success in the first...

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

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...

Documentary about the final five, turbulent years in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King. The story begins at the Lincoln Memorial...

Standing Rock, 2016: the largest Native American occupation since Wounded Knee, thousands of activists, environmentalists, and militarized police...