King in the Wilderness
β 6.9 Β· 2018 Β· 111m Β· Documentary
A chronicle of the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.βs life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum.
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2021 Β· β 6
An examination of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s in the UK, surveying both the individuals and the cultural forces that defined the era. At the heart of the documentary is a series of astonishing interviews with past activists, many of whom are speaking for the first time about what it was really like to be involved in the British Black Power movement, bringing to life one of the key cultural revolutions in the history of the nation.
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Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
2020 Β· β 7.2
Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers, transforming their young lives and igniting a landmark movement.
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Coded Bias
2020 Β· β 6.9
Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.
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A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.
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2018
Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.
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Ferguson Rises
2021
Before George Floyd, before Breonna Taylor, before America knew about Black Lives Matter, there was Michael Brown, Jr. On August 9th, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed Brown. The community reacted in protest, anger, frustration, and fear. Six years later, a new story emerges - one filled with hope, love, and beauty.
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Before Stonewall
1984 Β· β 6.5
New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back against police June 27-28, 1969. This documentary uses extensive archival film, movie clips and personal recollections to construct an audiovisual history of the gay community before the Stonewall riots.
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The Times of Harvey Milk
1984 Β· β 7.3
Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world.
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Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp
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The story of the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans and the loss of civil rights.
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Breath of Freedom
2014
In World War II. African-American GIs liberate Germany from Nazi rule while racism prevailed in their own army and home country. Returning home they continue fighting for their own rights in the civil rights movement.
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The Groveland Four
2018 Β· β 9
July, 1949: four young black men are wrongly accused of rape by a 17-year-old farm wife in rural Lake County, Florida. The case of βThe Groveland Fourβ included a race riot, torture, multiple murders, two trials and a Supreme Court reversal. Though widely covered by the national press, the case has been largely forgotten... even though it helped lay a foundation for the Civil Rights Movement.
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