Amsterdam (2022)
Though Amsterdam is a romantic comedy-thriller set in the 30s, it deals with racism & fascism, making it very relevant to today’s fascists movement.
A Jazzman’s Blues (2022)
Spanning several decades, this is a doomed love story of a Black jazz singer & a woman able to pass as white in a racist society.
Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down (2022)
The story of Congresswoman’s Gabby Giffords’ struggle to recover from her gun shot wound, her strong marriage, & her advocacy for gun control.
The First Lady (2022)
This limited series explores how 3 First Ladies–Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford, & Michelle Obama–struggled to form her own role in the White House.
91% : A FILM ABOUT GUNS IN AMERICA (2016)
The film interweaves stories of victims with statistics & news footage to show how 91% of the people wanting gun law loopholes closed are being thwarted,
Amend: The Fight for America (2021)
Will Smith, using graphics & actors, hosts this survey of the long struggle for Blacks to become full citizens, centering on the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.
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.
Son of the South (2020)
Writer-director Barry Alexander Brown’s film is based on Bob Zellner’s well-received 2008 autobiography The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement. The author’s move from sympathetic but do-nothing white moderate to zealous C-R activist is a good illustration of Dr. King’s criticism in his famous prison letter. At first …
The Reunited States of America (2021)
A once far right republican family upset over our nation’s divisiveness takes to the road to talk with people on how to reunite the country.
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story (2021)
A documentary film about Rabbi Abraham Heschel, a scholar who influenced Dr. MLK & the Civil Rights Movement & was an important adviser at Vatican II.