Showing 1 - 10 of 38 titles with a criteria of Subject is Black History

Althea

Pioneering athlete Althea Gibson broke records on and off the tennis court.

Icarus Films | 2014 | 83 minutes

'63 Boycott

Connects the massive 1963 Chicago Public Schools boycott to contemporary issues around race, education, school closings, and youth activism. This title has one or more clips.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 30 minutes

The Boys Who Said NO!

The first documentary film to profile the young men and women who actively opposed the military draft in order to end the Vietnam War.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 95 minutes

Capturing the Flag

A tight-knit group of friends travel to Cumberland County, North Carolina — the 2016 'posterchild' for voter suppression — intent on proving that the big idea of American democracy can be defended by small acts of individual citizens.

Bullfrog Films | 2018 | 76 minutes

Come Hell or High Water

When the graves of former slaves are bulldozed in Mississippi, a Boston teacher returns home to protect the community his ancestors settled.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 56 minutes

A Crime on the Bayou

Two young men, Gary Duncan, an unjustly arrested Black man and Richard Sobol, his Jewish attorney, take Duncan's case all the way to the Supreme Court to fight for the right of all Americans to a fair trial.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 91 minutes

A Dangerous Idea

Examines the history of the US eugenics movement and its recent resurrection, which uses false scientific claims and holds that an all-powerful 'gene' determines who is worthy and who is not. This title has one or more clips.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 106 minutes

Finally Got the News

A film about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, which was, 'in many respects the most significant expression of black radical thought and activism in the 1960s.' - Manning Marable, Prof. of History, Columbia Univ.

Icarus Films | 1970 | 55 minutes

Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker

Friend and advisor to Martin Luther King, FUNDI reveals the instrumental role that Ella Baker played in shaping the American civil rights movement.

Icarus Films | 1981 | 63 minutes

Furcy

For over 25 years, from 1817 to 1843, Furcy, who was officially considered a slave on Bourbon Island (the former name of Reunion Island), fought to get the highest court in France to recognize his status as a free man.

Cinétévé | 2021 | 52 minutes