Seadrift (2019)
• January 26th, 2019 • 1h 8min
Documentary
Overview
On August 3rd, 1979, a Vietnamese refugee shoots and kills a white crab fisherman at the town docks in Seadrift, TX. What began as a fishing dispute erupts in violence and ignites a resurgence of the KKK and open hostilities against the Vietnamese along the Gulf Coast. Set during the early days of Vietnamese refugee arrival, “Seadrift” examines the circumstances that led up to the shooting, its tumultuous aftermath, and the unexpected consequences that continue to reverberate today.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Yellow Fever
Released on: 2012-09-01
Animation, Documentary
What does beauty look like? In this award-winning short, Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii combines ani...
July '64
Released on: 2004-07-19
Documentary
A historic three-day race riot erupted in two African American neighborhoods in the northern, mid-si...
Nanook of the North
Released on: 1922-06-11
Documentary, Drama
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
White Out, Black In
Released on: 2014-09-20
Science Fiction, Documentary, Drama
Shots fired inside a club frequented by black Brazilians in the outskirts of Brasilia leave two men ...
Home and Away
Released on: 2023-09-01
Documentary
Shawn Huff and Ervin Latimer Jr. are the children of African-American basketball players Leon Huff a...
The Aryans
Released on: 2014-04-29
Documentary, Drama, Crime
THE ARYANS is Mo Asumang's personal journey into the madness of racism during which she meets German...
The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files
Released on: 2019-06-24
Documentary
David Olusoga opens secret government files to show how the Windrush scandal and the ‘hostile enviro...
Tan France: Beauty and the Bleach
Released on: 2022-04-27
Documentary
When he was only 9-years-old Tan France tried to lighten his own skin with bleaching cream. He faces...
Satan Kingdom Babylon
Released on: 2024-11-12
Documentary, Animation, Horror
Experimental documentary examining the interaction of hate, religion, and the apocalypse in the Unit...
Saigon, U.S.A.
Released on: 2004-04-04
Documentary
Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, Vietnamese refugees have built the largest Vietnamese community ou...
Striper Time
Released on: 1956-04-13
Documentary
This RKO Sportscope series short presents two sportsmen fishing for striped bass.
People of the Sea
Released on: 2025-01-30
Documentary
On the Magdalen Islands, during the short lobster season, fishermen and plant workers ensure the eco...
Smallmouth Bass
Released on: 1982-04-27
Documentary
Learn the best methods to catch smallmouth bass in this VHS video from the early 1980s.
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
Released on: 2020-08-12
Documentary
The 30-year legacy of the murder of black teenager Yusuf Hawkins by a group of young white men in Be...
The Silence of the River
Released on: 1991-11-15
Documentary
“Forgetting is complicit in recidivism,” says the commentary of this film dedicated to the demonstra...
Girls Gone Grabblin'
Released on: 2005-01-01
Adventure, Documentary
The 90-minute DVD includes 30 different grappling scenes, also included a segment on the video year ...
Race War
Released on: 2018-01-01
Documentary
The explosive documentary from Black Channel Films daring to ask the question "Is it still just raci...
Cacu: A Change for Life
Released on: 2019-10-25
Documentary
Five fishermen from Manresa, a poor neighborhood to the West of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Repub...
Rap, O Canto da Ceilândia
Released on: 2005-11-29
Documentary
A documentary about rap artists from Ceilândia, a satellite-city of Brazil capital, Brasilia. The fi...