Maids for Sale

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney...

In July 1860, the schooner Clotilda slipped quietly into the dark waters of Mobile, Ala., holding 110 Africans stolen from their homes and families,...

In 2013, three women emerged from a flat in Brixton. They had been held there for decades by Aravindan Balakrishnan, a revolutionary Maoist who...

In the eighteenth century, the family of BBC World News anchor and correspondent, Laura Trevelyan, were absentee slave owners on the island of...

In the Bernese Alps, the Agassizhorn peak memorialises Louis Agassiz – a controversial 19th-century scientist, who not only named the mountain...

During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an...

Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being...

Peter Batty presents a gripping account of the bloodshed and horror of the American Civil War. From the origins of the unrest between North and...

Every year, an estimated 800,000 persons are trafficked across international borders and forced into sexual or labour servitude. Estimates are that...

A fascinating account of the presidency of Andrew Jackson, who was both one of America's great presidents and a borderline tyrant. The seventh...

Jeffery Robinson's talk on the history of U.S. anti-Black racism, with archival footage and interviews.

African American filmmaker David A. Wilson decided to look into his family's history during the slave era. The result is this documentary, which...