Civil Rights Movies

  • 2018
    King in the Wilderness

    King in the Wilderness

    King in the Wilderness

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    A chronicle of the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from...

    King in the Wilderness
  • 2008
    Gospel Hill

    Gospel Hill

    Gospel Hill

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    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...

    Gospel Hill
  • 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
  • 2019
    The Other Boys of Summer

    The Other Boys of Summer

    The Other Boys of Summer

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    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
  • 2025
    Everlasting: Life and Legacy of Medgar Evers

    Everlasting: Life and Legacy of Medgar Evers

    Everlasting: Life and Legacy of Medgar Evers

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

    Everlasting: Life and Legacy of Medgar Evers
  • 2001
    Boycott

    Boycott

    Boycott

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    This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Boycott
  • 2018
    Indian Rights for Indian Women

    Indian Rights for Indian Women

    Indian Rights for Indian Women

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

    Indian Rights for Indian Women
  • 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
  • 2005
    The History Makers: Success

    The History Makers: Success

    The History Makers: Success

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

    The History Makers: Success
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2015
    Klansville U.S.A.

    Klansville U.S.A.

    Klansville U.S.A.

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

    Klansville U.S.A.
  • 1963
    Free, White and 21

    Free, White and 21

    Free, White and 21

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

    Free, White and 21
  • 1985
    And the Children Shall Lead

    And the Children Shall Lead

    And the Children Shall Lead

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    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...

    And the Children Shall Lead
  • 2024
    The Flag

    The Flag

    The Flag

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    A furious, iconoclastic attack on power and the media in a modern France where Islamophobia has become mainstream and inequality is growing from the...

    The Flag
  • 1970
    Gay and Proud

    Gay and Proud

    Gay and Proud

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    1970 short documentary covering the first New York gay pride parade celebrating one year after Stonewall.

    Gay and Proud
  • 2021
    Black Power: A British Story of Resistance

    Black Power: A British Story of Resistance

    Black Power: A British Story of Resistance

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    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. ...

    Black Power: A British Story of Resistance
  • 2023
    Serving in Secret: Love, Country, and Don't Ask, Don't Tell

    Serving in Secret: Love, Country, and Don't Ask, Don't Tell

    Serving in Secret: Love, Country, and Don't Ask, Don't Tell

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    Tracing the U.S. military's long history of discrimination against the gay community and one couple's personal journey for acceptance.

    Serving in Secret: Love, Country, and Don't Ask, Don't Tell
  • 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
  • 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