Here we've displayed a list of the best Civil Rights films : Do the Right Thing(1989), I Am Not Your Negro(2016), District 9(2009), Hidden Figures(2016), Mississippi Burning(1988), The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show(2020), Before Stonewall(1984), Selma(2014), Malcolm X(1972), Amazing Grace(2006), Far From Heaven(2002), The Express(2008) ... ...
Drama
USA
1989
120 Minutes
Danny Aiello Ossie Davis Ruby Dee Richard Edson Giancarlo Esposito Spike Lee Bill Nunn John Turturro Rosie Perez Paul Benjamin Frankie Faison
owner brother son sister young boy gutsy intense witty street restaurant brooklyn, n.y. racism violence civil rights community rivalry 1980s
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Documentary
Switzerland|France|Belgium|USA
2016
95 Minutes
writer agent martin luther king jr. disturbing engaging inspiring moving mississippi new york city tennessee american dream social issues racial issues black culture civil rights discovery fall love pursuit quest
Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
Sci-Fi
South Africa|USA|New Zealand|Canada
2009
111 Minutes
Sharlto Copley Jason Cope David James Vanessa Haywood Mandla Gaduka Kenneth Nkosi Eugene Khumbanyiwa Louis Minnaar William Allen Young Marian Hooman Vittorio Leonardi
alien reporter military officer love interest mutant creative thrilling south africa hospital military base johannesburg, south africa aliens eviction civil rights fugitives showdown experiments escape quest 2000s
Violence ensues after an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth finds a kindred spirit in a government agent exposed to their biotechnology.
Drama, History
USA
2016
127 Minutes
Taraji P. Henson Octavia Spencer Janelle Monáe Kevin Costner Mahershala Ali Kirsten Dunst Jim Parsons Kimberly Quinn Glen Powell Aldis Hodge Bob A. Jennings
african-american woman engineer mathematician astronaut soldier john glenn confident emotional fascinating classroom office houston command center conference room laboratory space race mathematics civil rights gender bias space
The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1988
125 Minutes
Gene Hackman Willem Dafoe Frances McDormand Brad Dourif R. Lee Ermey Gailard Sartain Stephen Tobolowsky Michael Rooker Pruitt Taylor Vince Park Overall Jake Gipson
fbi agent mayor sheriff klansman activist wife tense brutal powerful mississippi small town barbershop church highway racism civil rights violence pursuit revenge 1960s
Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.
Documentary
USA
2020
75 Minutes
martin luther king jr. civil rights activist entertainer host celebrity aretha franklin inspiring intense emotional engaging united states television studio new york city american south civil rights civil rights movement american culture vietnam war discovery pursuit
For one week in February 1968, Johnny Carson gave up his chair to Harry Belafonte, the first time an African-American had hosted a late night TV show for a whole week.
Documentary, Drama, History
USA
1984
87 Minutes
Allen Ginsberg Harry Hay Frank Kameny Audre Lorde Donna Smith
allen ginsberg activist professor gay man lesbian spirited powerful greenwich village stonewall inn new york city homosexuality homophobia riots civil rights protest underdog discovery 1920s
The history of the Gay and Lesbian community before the Stonewall riots began the major gay rights movement.
Drama, History
UK|USA|France
2014
128 Minutes
David Oyelowo Tom Wilkinson Carmen Ejogo Giovanni Ribisi Alessandro Nivola Cuba Gooding Jr. Tim Roth Oprah Winfrey Common Lorraine Toussaint Andre Holland
martin luther king jr. lyndon baines johnson protester police officer southerner racist brooding dark emotional alabama washington, d.c. white house street jail bedroom civil disobedience civil rights violence racism courage
A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
Documentary
USA
1972
92 Minutes
civil rights leader public official louis farrakhan narrator engaging inspiring united states city malcolm x african-americans civil rights spirituality racism public speaking quest discovery rise 1960s
James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.
Drama, History
USA|UK
2006
116 Minutes
Ioan Gruffudd Romola Garai Benedict Cumberbatch Albert Finney Michael Gambon Rufus Sewell Youssou N'Dour Ciarán Hinds Toby Jones Nicholas Farrell Sylvestra Le Touzel
prime minister friend servant slave love interest activist inspiring emotional london france ship household slavery politics gambling civil rights social activism illness transformation rescue
The idealist William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd) maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
USA|France
2002
107 Minutes
Julianne Moore Dennis Quaid Dennis Haysbert Patricia Clarkson Viola Davis James Rebhorn Celia Weston
wife gay/lesbian gardener psychiatrist maid dark emotional household connecticut florida hotel infidelity civil rights friendship homosexuality racism gossip forbidden love discovery 1950s
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
Biography, Drama
USA|Germany
2008
129 Minutes
Dennis Quaid Rob Brown Clancy Brown Omar Benson Miller Charles S. Dutton Darrin Dewitt Henson Nelsan Ellis Nicole Beharie
college student football player coach teammate uplifting engaging new york state college football field football college civil rights racism heisman trophy sports transformation quest 1950s
A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.
Drama
USA
1990
97 Minutes
Sissy Spacek Whoopi Goldberg Dwight Schultz Ving Rhames Dylan Baker Erika Alexander Lexi Randall Richard Habersham Jason Weaver
nanny wealthy woman african-american boss husband daughter inspiring passionate melodramatic montgomery, ala. bus road house community civil rights protest racism justice cross-cultural relations transformation
Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.
Drama
USA
2008
110 Minutes
Queen Latifah Dakota Fanning Jennifer Hudson Alicia Keys Sophie Okonedo Nate Parker Tristan Wilds Hilarie Burton Paul Bettany
teen girl father caregiver sister beekeeper teen boy heartwarming tender south carolina small town estate abuse civil rights racism adoption father/daughter relationship suicide growing up forbidden love underdog
In 1964, a teenage girl in search of the truth about her mother runs away to a small town in South Carolina and finds a family of independent women who can connect her to her past.
Drama, History
UK|Australia
2010
105 Minutes
Emily Watson David Wenham Hugo Weaving Richard Dillane Lorraine Ashbourne Kate Rutter Greg Stone Tara Morice Stuart Wolfenden
social worker victim orphan caregiver bleak disheartening nottingham, england office australia orphanage sweatshop child abuse immigration deception civil rights government cover-up orphans wretched excess quest 1980s
Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.
Documentary
USA
2017
105 Minutes
Michele Goodwin Lynn Paltrow Dr. David Grimes Carole Joffe Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas Andrea F. Friedman
woman doctor police detective politician priest shocking rousing brooding united states hospital jail office birth reproduction civil rights government policy rivalry pursuit underdog 2010s
Women are being jailed, physically violated and at risk of dying as a radical movement tightens its grip across America.
Drama
USA
1964
107 Minutes
James Whitmore Sorrell Booke Roscoe Lee Browne Dan Priest Walter Mason John Marriott Clifton James Lenka Petersen Richard Ward Llewellyn B. Skinner
journalist african-american impostor black man white supremacist powerful disheartening fiery tense american south park road store racism race relations harassment secret identity investigative journalism civil rights discovery
Based on the true story of a white reporter who, at the height of the civil-rights movement, temporarily darkened his skin to experience the realities of a black man's life in the segregated South.
Action, Biography, Drama, History
China|USA
2019
125 Minutes
Cynthia Erivo Janelle Monáe Leslie Odom Jr. Joe Alwyn Clarke Peters Jennifer Nettles Vanessa Bell Calloway Omar J. Dorsey Henry Hunter Hall Tim Guinee Nick Basta
freedom fighter slave slave trader civil rights activist civil rights leader racist cheery confident cool emotional engaging gripping gutsy heartwarming intense inspiring patriotic positive powerful profound
The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Comedy
USA
1963
97 Minutes
Ossie Davis Ruby Dee Sorrell Booke Godfrey Cambridge Hilda Haynes Alan Alda Beah Richards Charles Welch Ralph Roberts
reverend fiancée son plantation owner old man engaging spirited playful witty plantation barn church cotchipee, ga. civil rights deception father/son relationship schemes integration racism quest
An idealistic young man returns to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. He brings his fiancée Lutiebelle, but hopes to convince the plantation owner that she is really his cousin ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1942
80 Minutes
Art Smith Paul Strand James Hanney Fred Johnson Mary George John Rennick Amelia Romano Houseley Stevenson Howard da Silva Vaughn King Tom Pedi
farmer union organizer klansman sharecropper grocer paul robeson brutal inspiring intense factory united states rural community congress civil rights labor union free speech racism activism work underdog
Paul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage about the bill of rights being under attack during the 1930s by union busting corporations, their spies and contractors. ... See full summary »
Documentary
Russia
2020
96 Minutes
Elyse Steinberg
lawyer prosecutor civil rights activist powerful profound rousing courtroom office court battles civil rights government policy rise quest underdog 2010s
The film tells the story of the Podolsk cadets' heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets from the Podolsk infantry and artillery schools were sent to the Ilyinsky line of defense... See full summary »
Comedy, Fantasy
USA
2015
115 Minutes
Mark Wahlberg Amanda Seyfried Jessica Barth Giovanni Ribisi Morgan Freeman Patrick Warburton Michael Dorn Bill Smitrovich John Slattery Cocoa Brown John Carroll Lynch
bachelor teddy bear best friend wife lawyer attorney brash confident hilarious heartwarming park apartment law office courtroom street house friendship marriage bachelorhood civil rights
Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
Drama
USA
1989
118 Minutes
Paul Newman Lolita Davidovich Jerry Hardin Gailard Sartain Jeffrey DeMunn Garland Bunting Richard Jenkins Robert Wuhl
governor burlesque performer beautiful woman politician amusing sultry louisiana baton rouge new orleans mansion affair earl k. long politics scandal burlesque civil rights love rivalry 1950s
A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.
Documentary, War, Crime, Drama
2007
106 Minutes
Brian Keith Allen Jack Cloonan Greg D'Agostino Carl Levin Moazzam Begg
taxi driver soldier narrator detainee chilling intense brutal powerful army base bagram air force base afghanistan guatemala torture politics civil rights government secrets war mystery discovery 2000s
Documentary
1970
153 Minutes
activist politician actor wife inspiring profound alabama tennessee washington, d.c. chicago memphis, tenn. martin luther king jr. civil rights racism aspirations assassination social change underdog rise fall
The tribute features newsreel clips of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., from 1955 to 1968, including his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Drama, History
2013
132 Minutes
Forest Whitaker Oprah Winfrey John Cusack Jane Fonda Cuba Gooding Jr. Terrence Howard Lenny Kravitz James Marsden David Oyelowo Vanessa Redgrave Alan Rickman
butler wife cook harry s. truman richard nixon nancy reagan calm solemn relaxing moving heartwarming powerful white house washington, d.c. family home american south capitol building street politics race relations
A White House butler (Forest Whitaker) has a front-row seat to history through three decades and seven presidential administrations, including those of Eisenhower (Robin Williams), Kennedy (James Marsden) and Nixon (John Cusack).
Drama
1974
110 Minutes
Cicely Tyson Odetta Richard Dysart Josephine Premice Teddy Airhart Eric Brown Woodrow Chambliss Barbara Chaney Noel Cravenze Joel Fluellen Jerry Green
slave plantation owner corporal boy journalist friend disturbing moving inspiring louisiana cabin plantation field slavery civil rights american civil war violence humanity struggle wretched excess
A 110-year-old former Louisiana slave (Cicely Tyson) reminisces about her life and society from the Civil War to germinating civil rights.