Racism Films

13th

A documentary that argues that although slavery was ostensibly abolished in 1865, the thirteenth amendment legally embedded and allowed a pernicious form...
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An Outrage

One of numerous films from the Southern Poverty Law Center, this 33 minute documentary focuses on the phenomenon of lynching in this...
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And Then They Came for Us

Tells the story of Presidential Executive Order 9066, that led to the unconstitutional forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during the Second...
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Come, Walk in My Shoes

The Honorable John R. Lewis, a key figure in the civil rights movement, leads congressional colleagues on an emotional pilgrimage to Alabama...
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Exterminate All the Brutes

A four-part hybrid docuseries from HBO that explores the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism and challenges how history is written....
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Good Business

The story of a couple in South Africa who ignored the laws of apartheid to grow an ethical business building their company based...
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I Am Not Your Negro

This academy award nominated documentary uses the notes of the late writer James Baldwin, on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers,...
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Just Mercy

Based on the book of the same name, the story civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative...
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Paper Clips

Story of a middle school in a rural Tennessee town that sets out to do an extraordinary experiment in Holocaust education by...
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Reconstruction in America

A short animated video from the Equal Justice Initiative, that examines the 12 years following the Civil War when lawlessness and violence...
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Slavery By Another Name

This PBS documentary challenges the country’s assumption that slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and recounts how in the...
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Soul of a Nation

A series from ABC, that provides a unique window into the realities of Black life in America. Each episode is about 40...
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Systemic Racism Explained

A short animation from Act.TV, that touches on structural racism factors such as the historical consequences of slavery & the “Jim Crow”...
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The House I Live In

Provides stories from individuals at all levels of America’s “War on Drugs,” and offers a look inside of America’s longest war and...
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The Long Shadow

This film follows former CNN Senior Producer, TED contributor, and Emmy-Award winning Director Frances Causey as she traces her family’s legacy of...
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The Neutral Ground

A documentary about memory, monuments, and America’s troubled romance with the “Lost Cause.” Focuses on the City of New Orleans’ Council vote...
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Urban Rez

A documentary from PBS, that explores the controversial legacy & modern-day effects of the U.S. Government’s assimilation policy to dismantle the Indian...
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