Racial Segregation Movies

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank -...

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like a...

A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir...

In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney fami...

In 1974, a Boston Irish cop confronts fierce social pressure after being assigned to protect black high school students as they are bused into all-whi...

Italy, after the promulgation of the racial laws (1938). Luciano, a Fascist-abiding restaurateur, nonetheless believes he can still live by his own ru...

Celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was somehow free of politics before Colin Kaepernick and...

This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Their town always had two proms, one for the whites and one for the blacks. When both proms wanted the same DJ, Brianna McCallister suggested combinin...

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...

A true story of a priest (Andre Braugher) in New Orleans who formed a group of black players and challenged an all-white prep school basketball team i...

The life story of Richard Pryor (1940-2005),the legendary performer and iconic social satirist who transcended racial and social barriers with his ho...

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

In 1962 in Montgomery, Alabama, State Attorney Richmond Flowers, Sr. is one of few willing to fight racial injustices even if it costs him his family'...

A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.

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...

Set early during World War II, the film has a lot to say about love, honor, relationships, commitment and power. Keeping their promise to their dying...

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

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...