Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood, through his rise in the ranks of the Nation of Islam, to his 1965 assassination.

For over 85 years, steamship Ste. Claire transported generations of Detroiters to Boblo Island, an a...

The story of the organizing of the first black trade union - The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters...

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

Steal This Film focuses on Pirate Bay founders Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde, pro...

On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the fac...

Exceptionally talented actor and bridge-builder between black and white, a political icon and artist...

Since her debut at the age of 18, musician, civil rights campaigner and activist Joan Baez has been ...

Stories and music of Black artists who relied on an underground travel guide to navigate the injusti...
French documentary campaigning for the liberalization of abortion and contraception, directed by Cha...
Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.

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

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

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

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

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

A chronicle of the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted leade...

Chronicles over four centuries of African American influence on the development of the modern-day Un...

When Georgia Tech came to Michigan in 1934, the Wolverines were forced to bench their best play, Wil...

In civil rights era Montgomery, Alabama, Klansman's grandson Bob Zellner must choose which side of h...

Gloria Allred overcame trauma and personal setbacks to become one of the nation’s most famous women’...