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12 Years a Slave

October 17, 2013

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon strugg...

Belle

April 30, 2013

Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in England....

Burn!

December 20, 1969

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to ...

Abraham Lincoln

November 7, 1930

A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to...

Seven Angry Men

March 26, 1955

Rise, fall and execution of John Brown, fanatic abolitionist....

Twenty

April 19, 2023

Set in a speakeasy in Atlanta, “Twenty” is a feature documentary about fifteen young people making it through 2020. The film is an observational time capsule that lays bare the raw reflecti...

People Unite!

March 4, 2022

In the face of AAPI violence, an intergenerational coalition of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, People of Color organizers come together to organize a march across historic Washington Heig...

Frederick Douglass: An American Life

December 31, 1984

This director's cut of the William Greaves' documentary short film dramatizes the life and deeds of the noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass....

La montagne est verte

May 31, 1950

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Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition

December 31, 1997

The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies....

John Brown's Holy War

February 27, 2000

Documentary about abolitionist John Brown...