I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (2016)
Raoul Peck uses an unpublished James Baldwin work as his guide & script, enriched by archival clips & interviews, to expose racism in the US.
Becoming Harriett Beecher Stowe (2021)
Harriett Beecher Stowe’s life is well covered, from birth to the formative years in Cincinnati, through the writing of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, & its impact on the nation.
1776 (1972)
See the Founding Fathers sing & dance in this musical comedy about events leading up to signing of the Declaration of Independence, based on the Tony Award-winning Broadway play.
Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands (2022)
The triumph over Jim Crow of singer Marian Anderson is beautifully told in picture & song in this inspiring documentary.
Sons and Daughters of Thunder
The story of the Lane Debates over slavery in 1834 in Cincincinnati, at which the future author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe was present.
The Underground Railroad (2021)
Set in an imaginary South where the Underground Railroad sends real trains through tunnels, this is the story of Cora who boards it in Georgia in her quest for freedom.
Charlotte Forten’s Mission: Experiment in Freedom (1985)
This TV film focuses on the heroic 2 years that Black Abolitionist Charlotte Forten spent teaching ex-slaves at Port Royal during the Civil War.
Education (2020)
Drawing on his own experience Steve McQueen tells the story of a Black boy victimized by the British racist educational system designed to weed out minority students.
News of the World (2020)
While returning an orphaned girl raised by Native Americans to her family a Civil War veteran runs into problems in racist Texas.
The Good Lord Bird (2020)
The story of John Brown & th road that led to his anti-slavery revolt at Harpers Ferry is irreverently told through the eyes of fictitious boy slave posing as a girl.