Martin Luther King Jr. Movies

"Rigged" shows viewers just what Republicans did – and continue to do – from creating new barriers to voter registration, to purging...

The untold story of Charles Manson's obsession to become a rock star, his rise in the LA music scene, the celebrities who championed his music, his...

"The Art of Dissent" celebrates the resilience and power of artistic engagement in Czechoslovakia before and after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion. The...

On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a...

A chronicle of the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from...

The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.

Speech-making is the art of persuasion. Well-honed rhetoric appeals not just to the mind, but to the heart and, deeper down, in the guts. Examining...

How can something in the public domain not be publicly available? A critical investigation of public domain—a legal term that has nothing to do...

This is a montage of different images from the JFK, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy triumphs and assassinations, all three events being observed...

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

Based on newly declassified files, the film explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.

On April 5, 1968, soul legend James Brown performed a concert in Boston that many say shielded that city from the kinds of devastating riots that...

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

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...

An in-depth and provocative look at the 1992 Los Angeles riots exploring the roots of civil unrest in California and the relationship between African...

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

In the fourth installment of the Zeitgeist series, director Peter Joseph explorers the fundamental incompatibility of our economy and the culture it...

After attending a local comic book convention, three filmmakers are so moved by the stories shared with them by cosplayers that they decide to...

Writer, journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and presidential biographer John Meacham offers his timely and invaluable insights into the...

The James Brown Story