Martin Luther King Jr. Movies

"Rigged" shows viewers just what Republicans did – and continue to do – from creating new barriers to voter registration, to purging...

A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.

The wildly disparate yet fatefully entwined stories of assassin James Earl Ray and his target, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

After attending a local comic book convention, three filmmakers are so moved by the stories shared with them by cosplayers that they decide to...

An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they reflected contemporary society.

The Year That Trembled is a coming-of-age story set in 1970 in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young people facing the Vietnam...

He had one chance to show the world he was still the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Discover the story behind Elvis Presley's triumphant '68 comeback special.

The James Brown Story

On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a...

A journey into the heart of America's past and future. The story revolving around the mysterious woman, overlooked by historians, who had a profound...

This entry in the "Reel Moments" video series contains newsreel and archive footage of famous 20th century disasters, including: the collapse of the...

"This film explores how freedom of speech — including dissent — is afforded to all Americans, and shows freedom of expression in art,...

How did a poor little black girl from Missouri become the Queen of Paris, before joining the French Resistance and finally creating her dream family...

Documentary film on events that happened on August 28th in African-American history, shown at the Smithsonian African-American History Museum.

The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.

How can something in the public domain not be publicly available? A critical investigation of public domain—a legal term that has nothing to do...

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

The documentary investigates the lives and characters of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump as they seek the presidency. In a historic election, those...

A new investigative documentary exploring the controversies surrounding the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on June 5, 1968 as he looked set to...

An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British...