Tag: civil rights

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis'...

1964

1964 was the year the Beatles came to America, Cassius...

Salvador

In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War...

Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?

The film questions whether the Civil Rights Movement of the...

Breath of Freedom

In World War II. African-American GIs liberate Germany from Nazi...

The Watsons Go to Birmingham

In the Summer of 1963, Flint, Michigan is home to...

Hairspray

'Pleasantly plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming...

A Community Called Orange Mound

Orange Mound is a southeast Memphis neighborhood with a surprising...

Lyndon B. Johnson - Succeeding Kennedy

Driving Miss Daisy

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan...

Blaze

A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young...

Anne Braden: Southern Patriot

Anne Braden: Southern Patriot is a first person documentary about...

The Long Walk Home

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must...

The Loving Story

This documentary film tells the dramatic story of Richard and...

Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life

Weaving together the voices of women entangled in the criminal...

Black and Blue

When Georgia Tech came to Michigan in 1934, the Wolverines...

Separate But Equal

A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of...

The Committee

A film about Florida's little-known investigative committee of the State...

Africa Light / Gray Zone

"Africa Light" - as white local citizens call Namibia. The...

Rigoberta Menchú: Broken Silence

Focuses on 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Menchu, as...

The Ernest Green Story

Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little...

The Black List: Volume Two

THE BLACK LIST: VOL. 2 profiles some of today's most...

Democracy Is ...

The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society...

For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska

In 1867, when the United States purchased the Alaska territory,...