Racial Segregation Movies

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 “...

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 or...

Never-before-seen testimony is included in this documentary on Emmett Louis Till, who, in 1955, was brutally murdered after he whistled at a white wom...

Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar's unusual discovery lures him into the depth of the city. Immersed into a world...

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 a...

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...

A City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in 1954. An Oscar-nominated short documentary from 19...

When Winston Churchill needed the help of the US Army to defeat Hitler, he made a controversial decision to allow America to bring its segregated Army...

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

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 perceive...

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...

This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on eac...

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

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 raises quest...

In White Like Me, anti-racist educator Tim Wise explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege.

Varosha, the only city on the world without people, the loneliest city... Varosha is a province in Cyprus that is closed with fences and unpopulated s...

A documentary on the life of Matthew Kennedy, one of the first internationally acclaimed African American concert pianists, and former director of the...

On Jan. 5, 1931, Mexican-American students were barred from attending their local elementary school. The parents took the school district to court.