Martin Luther King Jr. Movies

He counseled presidents and popes, served on corporate boards and infuriated Richard Nixon. He was one of the only friends to whom Ann Landers...

Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an...

A look at the role of the Buckeye State in the 2004 Presidential Election.

The documentary investigates the lives and characters of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump as they seek the presidency. In a historic election, those...

Follow Willie Mays’ life both on and off the field over five decades as he navigated the American sports landscape and the country’s...

50 years after the legendary fest, Barak Goodman’s electric retelling of Woodstock, from the point of view of those who were on the ground,...

COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s....

Documentary film on events that happened on August 28th in African-American history, shown at the Smithsonian African-American History Museum.

A look at the War on Terror and the threat it's causing to our civil liberties and political discourse. Academy Award nominee James Cromwell presents...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant...

An account of the life of the brilliant jazz musician John Coltrane (1926-67), a gifted saxophonist, an extraordinarily talented thinker whose...

A democracy should protect its most vulnerable citizens, but increasingly the United States is failing to do so. This investigation blends the...

An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they reflected contemporary society.

The timely biopic focuses on John Lewis’ longstanding prominence as a civil rights champion and his continuing crusade for racial and social...

Through honest reflection, complemented by insight from colleagues and friends, Faye Dunaway contextualizes her life and filmography, laying bare her...

Defying the state legislature that outlawed abortion, the Catholic Church that condemned it, and the Chicago Mob that was profiting from it, the...

Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional...

In the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished...

Documentary film about the anti-war movement in the Madison, Wisconsin area during the time of the Vietnam War. It combines archival footage and...

Jeffery Robinson's talk on the history of U.S. anti-Black racism, with archival footage and interviews.