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.
Follows the young people of Selma, Alabama's RATCo (Random Acts of Theatre Company) as they journey ...

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...

The black power salute by Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico Olympics was an iconic mom...

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a mas...

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

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

An 8-year journey into divided America, The American Question examines the insidious roots of polari...

An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice mar...

Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights l...

The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett ...

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...
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...

Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp ...

In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong...

Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial r...

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.
French documentary campaigning for the liberalization of abortion and contraception, directed by Cha...