Civil Rights Movies

Follows the young people of Selma, Alabama's RATCo (Random Acts of Theatre Company) as they journey to New York City to share their story of hope,...

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

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

A film about Florida's little-known investigative committee of the State Legislature from 1956-1964. The committee's aim was to root out homosexual...

Roots of racial disparities are seen through a new lens in this film that explores the origins of housing segregation in the Minneapolis area. But...

See how New Deal-era Redlining maps delineated risk areas for federally-backed mortgages and home-ownership programs, resulting in a wealth gap that...

A group of longtime Chicago residents born in the Mississippi Delta returns to Greenville, Mississippi, for a reunion with family and friends....

Short documentary examining a Black community’s decades-long battle to hold onto their land as city officials wielded eminent domain to...

Eyewitness accounts recall when Klansmen attacked a bus filled with Freedom Riders in Anniston, Ala. and set it on fire.

The Longoria Affair is about a controversy that arose when the body of a dead soldier from WWII was finally identified in 1949.

Mary Lou Breslin, co-founder of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership...

Through a training trip, in which the filmmakers also participate, the contrasts that exist between the conservatism of machismo and the new...

Documentary short documents the “Reminder Day Picket” at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, on July 4, 1968.

The PRATT in the HAT is a short film about Frances Pratt, her hats, her wit, and her civil rights leadership which began in 1957 and continues till...

A thought-provoking, humanistic portrait of a Chicago nurse who risked her personal freedom and was imprisoned in civil rights demonstrations and...

Two dedicated high school band directors—one black, one white—were inspired by music to cross the color lines of segregation and work...

Documentary on the life of Harlem Globetrotters legend, Jumpin' Johnny Kline, who barnstormed in the tumultuous Civil Rights era of the 1950s. From a...

Oscar nominated documentary short from 2008