racial segregation

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

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 ...

A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show. Release: Hairspray Live 2016 HDTV ...

The Arkansas school integration crisis and the changes wrought in subsequent years. This film profiles the lives of the nine African-American ...

This documentary tells the story of the legendary performer and iconic social satirist, who transcended race and social barriers by delivering ...

In the aftermath of Cassius Clay’s defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to change the ...

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. ...

A drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa’s apartheid era. Release: The World Unseen 2007 ...

In 1930s Southern US, a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm with the help of a disparate group of friends. Release: Places in the ...

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems ...

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny ...

In White Like Me, anti-racist educator Tim Wise explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. Release: ...

In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated… and complicated. Following a cast of characters, parades, and parties across an enduring ...

Never-before-seen testimony is included in this documentary on Emmett Louis Till, who, in 1955, was brutally murdered after he whistled at a ...

A true story of a priest (Andre Braugher) in New Orleans who formed a group of black players and challenged an all-white prep school basketball ...

On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as “Sugar Mamas” — European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a ...