Racial Segregation Movies

Can a tree be racist? A few years ago, debate on this issue reached as far as Fox News. The focus was a row of tamarisk trees along a huge golf...

During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F....

Shots fired inside a club frequented by black Brazilians in the outskirts of Brasilia leave two men wounded. A third man arrives from the future in...

A historical analysis of how groups such as the Nazi’s may use language, symbols, and religious connotation in order to come to power. It...

This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on...

Varosha, the only city on the world without people, the loneliest city... Varosha is a province in Cyprus that is closed with fences and unpopulated...

Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar's unusual discovery lures him into the depth of the city. Immersed into a world...

Trevor Phillips confronts some uncomfortable truths about racial stereotypes, as he asks if attempts to improve equality have led to serious negative...

In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated... and complicated. Following a cast of characters, parades, and parties across an enduring color...

In 1937, after seeing a photo depicting the lynching of a black man in the south, Bronx-born high school teacher Abel Meeropol wrote a poem entitled...

A City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in 1954. An Oscar-nominated short documentary from...

In White Like Me, anti-racist educator Tim Wise explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege.

The Arkansas school integration crisis and the changes wrought in subsequent years. This film profiles the lives of the nine African-American...

A documentary on the life of Matthew Kennedy, one of the first internationally acclaimed African American concert pianists, and former director of...

On Jan. 5, 1931, Mexican-American students were barred from attending their local elementary school. The parents took the school district to court.