Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activist to world-renowned leader of the Civil Rights movement. Rare footage of King's speeches, protests, and arrests are interspersed with scenes of other high-profile supporters and opponents of the cause, punctuated by heartfelt testimonials by some of Hollywood's biggest stars.
On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stepped up to a microphone in front of the Lincoln...
The 30-year legacy of the murder of black teenager Yusuf Hawkins by a group of young white men in Be...
Shots fired inside a club frequented by black Brazilians in the outskirts of Brasilia leave two men ...
Comes one hundred years from the two-day Tulsa Massacre in 1921 that led to the murder of as many as...
Jeffery Robinson's talk on the history of U.S. anti-Black racism, with archival footage and intervie...
This riveting documentary investigates allegations of systemic racism and child sexual abuse in the ...
In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated... and complicated. Following a cast of characters...
Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, viole...
In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWI...
After 52 years of armed conflict the FARC guerrillas are about to hand over their arms in exchange f...
The life and work of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat have been marked by a long quest for ident...
Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood i...
This documentary celebrates the Black cultural renaissance that existed in the Greenwood district of...
In the history of “The Simpsons,” few characters outside the title family have had as much cultural ...
OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli militar...
Short documentary commissioned by the magazine Présence Africaine. From the question "Why is the Afr...
This High Definition, PBS miniseries uses letters, diaries, speeches, journalistic accounts, histori...
Exploring how punk influenced politics in late-1970s Britain, when a group of artists united to take...
A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.
The little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Ca...