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Documentary based on James Baldwin’s unfinished novel, ‘Remember this House’. The film’s release, which coincided with the unfolding of the Black Lives Matter protests across the USA, explores the...
A report of gunshots prompts the Detroit Police to search the Algiers Motel. A group of young people staying there are forcefully and viciously interrogated by the riot task force. By the end of the night,...
OUR MOCKINGBIRD is a documentary that uses Harper Lee’s 1960 novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ as a lens to view race, class, gender and justice, then and now. Woven through the film is the story of two...
In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was several years into the making of a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted emails from someone...
Feature film documentary. Alice Walker made history as the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple. Her early life unfolded in the midst of...
Documentary narrated by Ice-T about the controversy over the issue of gun control. The film takes a critical look at the current gun laws and the increasing call to restrict the rights put forth in the...
Based on the book ‘The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964’, by award-winning journalist Jon Margolis, this film follows some of the most prominent figures of the time (including Lyndon B Johnson, Barry...
John Akomfrah’s film tells the story of the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a watershed moment for the American civil rights movement which brought together a coalition of civil...
This film, presented by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and...
In 1991 Anita Hill, a law professor from Oklahoma, sat before a US Senate committee of 14 white men and with a clear, unwavering voice recounted the repeated acts of sexual harassment she had endured while...
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