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 African-Americans navigate safe those regions of the United States where segregation and Jim Crow laws were disgracefully applied.
Words are loaded with meaning. Certain ones conjure joyful memories and others remind us of less hap...

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a marc...

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about t...
Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.

NIN E TEPUEIAN - MY CRY is a documentary tracks the journey of Innu poet, actress and activist, Nata...

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one ...

The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat a...

Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 A...

Conflict erupts within a close-knit engine company of a big-city fire department when a black recrui...

In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college bask...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...

In 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who...

A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial a...

A team of Romany football players try to overcome prejudice in this Czech documentary.

As local newsrooms vanish, "News Without a Newsroom" explores journalism's uncertain future in the d...

In the history of “The Simpsons,” few characters outside the title family have had as much cultural ...

Pata Seca (1828), a man whose back bore the whip marks of his enslavers , whose eyes held the haunt...

A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her throug...