Racial Segregation Movies

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

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

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...

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. Ken...

The March, also known as The March to Washington, is a 1964 documentary film by James Blue about the 1963 civil rights March on Washington. It was mad...

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...

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...

Trevor Phillips confronts some uncomfortable truths about racial stereotypes, as he asks if attempts to improve equality have led to serious negative...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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