Racial Segregation Movies

The Arkansas school integration crisis and the changes wrought in subsequent years. This film profiles the lives of the nine African-American...

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...

Shots fired inside a club frequented by black Brazilians in the outskirts of Brasilia leave two men wounded. A third man arrives from the future in...

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...

How did a poor little black girl from Missouri become the Queen of Paris, before joining the French Resistance and finally creating her dream family...

Their town always had two proms, one for the whites and one for the blacks. When both proms wanted the same DJ, Brianna McCallister suggested...

A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.

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...

Can a tree be racist? A few years ago, debate on this issue reached as far as Fox News. The focus was a row of tamarisk trees along a huge golf...

An in-depth and provocative look at the 1992 Los Angeles riots exploring the roots of civil unrest in California and the relationship between African...

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....

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...

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...

A look at three U.S. cities, which were part of many communities that violently forced African American families to flee in post-reconstruction...

The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz...

In 1937, after seeing a photo depicting the lynching of a black man in the south, Bronx-born high school teacher Abel Meeropol wrote a poem entitled...

A young and outgoing African-American boy living under the skies of 1950s Jim Crow Kentucky finds himself lost when he wakes up in the year 2026,...

“In Gaza you have to get there in the evening, in spring, lock yourself in your room and from there listen to the sounds coming in through the...

This cinematic reportage with elements of a personal journal explores xenophobia in Czech society and anti-Nazi activists, but also the...

In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated... and complicated. Following a cast of characters, parades, and parties across an enduring color...