Racial Segregation Movies
- 2001
Texas Rangers
Texas Rangers6.12001HD
Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the...
- 1961
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun7.61961HD
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like...
- 2019
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom7.72019HD
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...
- 2022
The Walk
The Walk5.82022HD
In 1974, a Boston Irish cop confronts fierce social pressure after being assigned to protect black high school students as they are bused into...
- 2001
Boycott
Boycott6.62001HD
This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 2022
The Shadow of the Day
The Shadow of the Day6.4592022HD
Italy, after the promulgation of the racial laws (1938). Luciano, a Fascist-abiding restaurateur, nonetheless believes he can still live by his own...
- 1998
Shadrach
Shadrach5.81998HD
In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney...
- 2022
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL02022HD
Celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was somehow free of politics before Colin Kaepernick and...
- 2019
I Am Richard Pryor
I Am Richard Pryor6.82019HD
The life story of Richard Pryor (1940-2005), the legendary performer and iconic social satirist who transcended racial and social barriers with his...
- 1989
Unconquered
Unconquered101989HD
In 1962 in Montgomery, Alabama, State Attorney Richmond Flowers, Sr. is one of few willing to fight racial injustices even if it costs him his...
- 1996
The Summer of Ben Tyler
The Summer of Ben Tyler5.6671996HD
Set early during World War II, the film has a lot to say about love, honor, relationships, commitment and power. Keeping their promise to their dying...
- 1996
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored4.21996HD
This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on...
- 2018
Cherrie - ut ur mörkret
Cherrie - ut ur mörkret62018HD
- 1963
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment6.91963HD
During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F....
- 1991
Separate But Equal
Separate But Equal6.41991HD
A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
- 1989
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun81989HD
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
- 1998
Black Sun
Black Sun61998HD
A historical analysis of how groups such as the Nazi’s may use language, symbols, and religious connotation in order to come to power. It...
- 1999
Passing Glory
Passing Glory5.81999HD
A true story of a priest (Andre Braugher) in New Orleans who formed a group of black players and challenged an all-white prep school basketball team...
- 2021
Voice of Freedom
Voice of Freedom02021HD
On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stepped up to a microphone in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Inscribed on the walls of the monument...
- 2020
Black Thoughts
Black Thoughts12020HD
A man that is a stranger, is an incredibly easy man to hate. However, walking in a stranger’s shoes, even for a short while, can transform a...