Catalog Search Results
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Bob Marley’s granddaughter Donisha Prendergast takes us on a quest to understand the roots of her grandfather’s extraordinary legacy. She has long been committed to his longing for Zion, a place of One Love, where people live in peace and harmony. But when she looks at the world around her, all she sees is injustice and suffering. Is Bob Marley’s legacy even possible? In REACHING FOR ZION, Donisha confronts the roots of prejudice and present...
42) Stranger Fruit
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
What really happened on August 9th, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri? That afternoon, Officer Darren Wilson killed 18-year-old Michael Brown. ‘STRANGER FRUIT’ is the unraveling of what took place, told through the eyes of Mike Brown’s family. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**. *"A powerfully compelling take on events surrounding the death of Michael Brown." - Michael Rechtshaffen, **Hollywood Reporter***
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
In this Emmy-winning documentary, acclaimed Muslim filmmaker Deeyah Khan meets U.S. neo-Nazis and white nationalists face to face and attends the now-infamous *Unite the Right* rally in Charlottesville as she seeks to understand the personal and political motivations behind the resurgence of far-right extremism in the U.S. Speaking with fascists, racists and proponents of alt-right ideologies, Deeyah attempts to discover new possibilities for connection...
44) Otomo
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A powerful film portraying institutionalized racism and police brutality, Otomo provides a convincing look at the everyday world of refugees, who are continuously surrounded by tension and insecurity. In the summer of 1989, a Stuttgart newspaper reported the true story of a West African asylum seeker who physically assaulted an intolerant subway ticket-taker; fled, and became the target of a city-wide manhunt.
45) American denial
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In his 1944 study of the 'Negro Problem' in America, Gunnar Myrdal posed a simple, disturbing question: How can Americans espouse a belief in liberty, equality and equal opportunity while enabling openly racist Jim Crow practices against black citizens? American Denial uses 'the Myrdal question’ to probe and expose the power of denial and unconscious bias in what some have called a ‘post-racial’ America. The film’s narrative cross-cuts between...
46) Whitewash
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
1994.
Description
When Helene Angel walks home from school with her older brother she is attacked by a street gang and painted white. The effect on Helene and her family is devastating. Helene locks herself in her room, her brother blames himself for not having successfully defended his sister, and the media descends on their neighborhood, completely disrupting her small family. But an outpouring of love and understanding from Helene's friends, classmates, and family...
47) Black Stories
Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
BLACK STORIES is a collection of films from the University of Southern California Cinematic Arts.
48) In Whose Honor?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The Cleveland Indians. Washington Redskins. Atlanta Braves. What's wrong with American Indian sports mascots? This moving, award-winning film is the first of its kind to address that subject. In Whose Honor? takes a critical look at the long-running practice of "honoring" American Indians as mascots and nicknames in sports. It follows the story of Native American mother Charlene Teters, and her transformation into the leader some are calling the "Rosa...
49) Man on Fire
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Grand Saline, Texas has a history of racism - a history the community doesn’t talk about. This shroud of secrecy ended when Charles Moore, an elderly white preacher, self-immolated to protest the town's racism in 2014, shining a spotlight on the town’s dark past. MAN ON FIRE untangles the pieces of this protest and questions racism in Grand Saline today. Official Selection at the **Slamdance Film Festival**.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
1995.
Description
This documentary was the first film to explore Frantz Fanon, the pre-eminent theorist of the anti-colonial movements of this century. Fanon's two major works, *Black Skin, White Masks* and *The Wretched of the Earth*, were pioneering studies of the psychological impact of racism on both colonized and colonizer. This innovative film biography restores Fanon to his rightful place at the center of contemporary discussions around post-colonial identity....
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A case study in environmental racism set in a uranium mining town in the Sahara desert of Niger. Here European corporations extract nuclear power and profits leaving behind disease, contamination and unemployment. Ironically the primary activities of Arlit today is waiting, waiting to die of radiation related sicknesses or to emigrate to find work in Europe itself. Arlit was once a boom town. During the oil crunch of the early 70's its uranium mines...
Publisher
Array Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Set amidst the Grenada Revolution, THE HOUSE ON COCO ROAD documents one family’s flight from racial tensions in 1980’s Oakland, California, only to find themselves settled directly in the path of a U.S. military invasion. First hand accounts from activists Angela Davis, Fania Davis and Fannie Haughton weave together director Damani Baker’s family portrait of utopian dreams, resistance and civil unrest with a film score composed by music luminary...
53) South
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Chantal Akerman's SOUTH explores the aftereffects of a racially motivated killing that revealed the intense hate that still lies just beneath the surface of American society. Patient interviews reveal the thoughts and emotions of the local townspeople. Akerman's access to their lives, including being allowed to film Byrd's funeral, allows her to tell the tale in a pensive and beautiful fashion.
Publisher
Principal Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Slavery officially ended in the United States 1865… or did it? When a reporter asks the first black female elected state official in Utah if she knew that the Utah Constitution still allowed for slavery, Rep. Sandra Hollins was stunned. Through the social upheaval and heated national election, Rep. Hollins and small band of activist joined together to end slavery in Utah. Words have meaning and many people were opposed to making the change. There...
Publisher
Loudspeaker Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
On a Friday night after a long week at work, Calvin Davis joined his family in Southwest Washington, DC for an informal gathering. Still wearing scrubs from his job at Children’s National Medical Center, Calvin caught up with an old friend while his two boys rode bikes around the block. When police followed his fifteen year-old home, pulling on gloves as they approached the teenager, Calvin intervened to ask “Why? What did he do?” How these...
Publisher
The Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Foundation
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
When the son of a Civil Rights Hero dives into the 400 year history of institutional racism in America he is confronted with the shocking reality that his family helped start it all from the very beginning. A comprehensive and insightful exploration of the origins and history of racism in America told through a very personal and honest story.
59) Stalag 17
Publisher
ECHELONSTUDIOS
Pub. Date
1953.
Description
When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Guie’dani is dragged to Mexico City by her mother to help in her work as a housekeeper for an upper-middle-class family. There, the subtle psychological subjugation inflicted by the white family functions as a metaphor for the oppression of the old world by the new. Yet, Guie’dani rejects the life of servitude and seeks her own identity through a friendship with another rebellious teen. A striking contrast to Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, GUIE'DANI'S...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request