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Netflix
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8.2
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/2484/
79
/773/
4.3
/117244/
97
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90
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81
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cc age 16+

13th (2016)
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
poster
77
6.7
/144806/
70
/4075/
67
/2581/
3.6
/372794/
92
/216/
84
/63404/
81
/37/
cc age 11+

Hairspray (2007)
Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Through her newfound fame, she becomes determined to help her friends and end the racial segregation that has been a staple of the show.
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Kanopy
76
7.0
/1882/
73
/132/
69
/20/
3.5
/4837/
98
/126/
66
/16/
81
/29/
cc age 13+

MLK/FBI (2020)
Based on newly declassified files, the film explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
poster
75
7.8
/5802/
73
/191/
71
/88/
3.7
/5089/
79
/20/

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006)
Featuring never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where he orchestrated a mass suicide via tainted punch.
poster
71
7.2
/29566/
74
/765/
74
/561/
3.6
/24390/
60
/139/
78
/2941/
57
/32/
cc age 13+

The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past.
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fuboTV
68
7.5
/4827/
73
/392/
70
/82/
3.5
/5468/
64
/28/
78
/30/
55
/7/

JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021)
Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which took place in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
poster
71
65
7.0
/4077/
72
/410/
73
/166/
3.2
/12168/
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/25/
75
/21/
cc age 11+

Hairspray Live! (2016)
A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.
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Amazon Prime Video
77
60
7.9
/2751/
75
/70/
65
/26/
3.6
/1166/
90
/10/
86
/55/
77
/8/

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.
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Kanopy
65
57
6.3
/2792/
68
/184/
65
/147/
2.7
/3113/
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/17/
89
/36/
60
/4/
cc age 14+

Son of the South (2021)
In civil rights era Montgomery, Alabama, Klansman's grandson Bob Zellner must choose which side of history to be on during the Movement. Defying his family and white Southern norms, he fought against social injustice, repression and violence to change the world around him
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fuboTV
54
6.3
/7730/
64
/112/
60
/108/
3.1
/2076/
31
/55/
64
/185/
45
/27/

Crazy in Alabama (1999)
An abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.
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Kanopy
70
37
7.7
/348/
65
/14/
61
/9/
79
/28/
78
/24/
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/14/

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (2009)
William Kunstler was one of the most famous lawyers of the 20th century. His clients included Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Phillip and Daniel Berrigan, Abbie Hoffman, H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Leonard Peltier. Filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler explore their father’s life, from middle-class family man, to movement lawyer, to “the most hated lawyer in America.”
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Amazon Prime Video
68
33
7.1
/1319/
68
/63/
68
/24/
3.3
/1193/

Jonestown: Paradise Lost (2007)
Jonestown: Paradise Lost is a documentary on the final days of Jonestown, the Peoples Temple, and Jim Jones. From eyewitness and survivor accounts, it recreates the last week before the mass murder-suicide on November 18, 1978.
poster
68
32
6.8
/813/
68
/36/
62
/43/
3.9
/4090/
67
/1/

Now! (1965)
Using morgue photos, newsreel footage, and a recording by Lena Horne, Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez fired off 'Now!', one of the most powerful bursts of propaganda rendered in the 1960s.
poster
76
27
7.8
/1047/
79
/45/
75
/14/
3.6
/952/

Dean Martin: King of Cool (2021)
Dean Martin had a laid-back charm that made him successful in everything from big-screen comedies to television variety shows to live acts in Las Vegas. Filmmaker Tom Donahue explores Martin’s varied career, including his complicated relationships with Jerry Lewis, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, and others. We hear from admirers such as critic Gerald Early, actor Jon Hamm, and Hip-Hop artist RZA who testify to Martin’s enduring mystique.
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5.6
/1034/
56
/26/
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/27/
33
/6/
36
/39/

Gospel Hill (2008)
Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of a slain civil rights activist. Jack Herrod (Tom Bower) is the former sheriff who never got to the bottom of the murder. Their paths begin to cross when a development corporation comes to town with plans to raze Julia's historic Gospel Hill.
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23
6.3
/1223/
56
/25/
61
/12/
3.2
/306/
67
/30/

There Goes My Baby (1994)
It's the summer of 1965, and the members of the graduating class of upscale Westwood High are eager to reinvent themselves. Valedictorian Mary Beth wants to attend a liberal university. Surfer bum Stick plans to enlist to fight in Vietnam. Calvin lives in the poor Watts section of Los Angeles, which is slowly erupting in violence. As the summer nights grow long, they'll all be forced to make decisions that will affect the rest of their lives.
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Amazon Prime Video
67
17
7.0
/333/
63
/22/
67
/19/
3.4
/464/

Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind (2019)
The untold story of Charles Manson's obsession to become a rock star, his rise in the LA music scene, the celebrities who championed his music, his tragic friendship with The Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson and his descent into violence and chaos once his dreams fell apart.
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Netflix
71
13
7.8
/254/
72
/11/
50
/8/
3.5
/379/
87
/12/

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2003)
Documentary on Bayard Rustin, best-remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.
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Amazon Prime Video
49
12
5.3
/915/
50
/17/
55
/17/
3.1
/215/
25
/12/

Heart of Dixie (1989)
In the 1950s, three young sorority women re-assess their values in light of the burgeoning civil rights movement.
poster
48
11
5.5
/631/
55
/13/
47
/17/
3.1
/493/
23
/4/

Guyana: Crime of the Century (1979)
This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly charismatic, but profoundly paranoid clergyman, who after years of evangelism and good deeds, begins his own church in the mid-western United States. When Jim Jones becomes increasingly obsessed with the belief that the CIA is "a wicked enemy" who is out to get him, he emigrates with his congregation to Guyana, where he plans to create a utopia. But Jim Jones' utopia consists of a society where he demands his followers turn their minds, bodies and possessions over to him, one that is rife with orgies, physical violence, mental torture, and sexual abuse of children and adults. Ultimately, Jim Jones' paranoia reaches a fevered pitch that culminates in him taking savage action against his own congregation. (VCI Home Video)
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Amazon Prime Video
32
6
2.5
/550/
32
/34/
30
/14/
2.4
/338/
29
/2/

The Jonestown Haunting (2020)
A survivor of the Jonestown massacre returns to the site 10 years later and discovers the cult's former home has become a breeding ground for the supernatural.
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?
4.9
/10/
40
/1/

Jonestown: The Final Reckoning (2024)
A survivor of the Jonestown massacre travels back to the jungles of Guyana with her daughter 30 years later to confront her demons, only to relive the horror in ways she never could have imagined.
poster
?
7.3
/29/
60
/1/

King (2008)
Forty years after Martin Luther King s assassination, HISTORY, with newsman Tom Brokaw, takes viewers through the extraordinary life and times of America's civil rights visionary. KING goes beyond the legend to portray the man, the questions, the myths and, most importantly, the relevance of Dr. King s message in today s world. Includes a rare interview with his son, Martin Luther King III, as well as associates from the civil rights campaigns and contemporary figures such as former President Bill Clinton, Condaleezza Rice, Bono, Forest Whitaker, Chuck D and others.
poster
75
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7.2
/105/
78
/6/

Jonestown (2013)
A thriller that dramatizes the last 24 hours in the lives of Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple Church through the eyes of a reporter.
poster
?
6.7
/58/

The Real Malcolm X (1992)
CBS News looks at Malcolm X, focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965, suggesting that his death was a great loss to the nation. The film intercuts archival footage of Malcolm and interviews with family, friends, colleagues, scholars, and writers. CBS documents Malcolm's move from being Elijah Muhammad's deputy in the Nation of Islam to his embrace of Islam: his new links with the civil rights movement posed a real threat to the powers that be. CBS details his death after secret FBI acts to increase the rift between Muhammad and Malcolm. Maya Angelou, Dick Gregory, and Andrew Young offer trenchant comments. "He was our manhood," eulogized Ossie Davis.
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?
7.8
/14/
10
/1/

Deceived: The Jonestown Tragedy (1979)
Rev. Dr. Mel White’s famous documentary on the murderous cult leader, Rev. Jim Jones
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Kanopy
71
?
7.1
/132/
69
/12/
73
/6/

Days of Rage: The Rolling Stones' Road to Altamont (2020)
The decade that began with peace and love was shattered in the late 1960s amidst riots, assassinations and a war that wouldn't end. The Rolling Stones became the voice of this new era, which came to a horrific end at the Altamont festival.
poster
?
8.0
/50/
61
/6/
85
/2/

Elvis: The Rebirth of the King (2017)
The widely accepted Elvis narrative is that the Vegas period was the nadir of his career, but this film argues that Elvis reached his peak both as a singer and performer in the first few years of his Vegas period. He became, in those short years, the greatest performer on earth. The film tracks this five-year renaissance with some of his key musical and artistic collaborators of the period, including the creator of his most memorable jumpsuits, to celebrate the greatest pop reinvention of all time.
poster
73
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7.8
/162/
77
/14/
64
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Witness to Jonestown (2008)
Rare footage shot inside the People's Temple gives an insider's look at the tragic Jonestown Massacre that occurred in Guyana in 1978. Interviews with survivors attempt to shed light on how and why 900 Unitedstatians would follow one man to their deaths.
poster
?
6.8
/56/

Decoding The Past: Cults - Dangerous Devotion (2006)
Is it brain-washing or like-mindedness? What attracts followers to cults and what holds them? This special feature-length documentary infiltrates the hidden world of these secretive groups.
poster
71
?
6.9
/37/
63
/6/
83
/3/
3.5
/263/

605 Adults 304 Children (2019)
An immersive and intimate documentary filmed entirely by The Peoples Temple in Jonestown.
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fuboTV
54
?
5.9
/335/
57
/8/
70
/6/
32
/4/

The Painting (2001)
Heath Freeman (Tru Calling, ER) heads an all-star cast including Clifton Davis (Any Given Sunday) Ben Vereen (Roots), Stacey Dash (Renaissance Man) and Debbie Allen (Fame) in the period drama Soldier of Change, which resurrects the turmoil and confusion of the late sixties. Travel back in time to visit a young man, Randy (Freeman) who finds himself immersed in the impassioned civil rights cause in the States, and struggles valiantly to adjust to the changing social fabric around him. But this is only the first of two worlds that Randy encounters. When he is drafted and shipped off to Asia - and the nightmare that called itself Vietnam - this inexperienced soldier must fight for his life and his convictions as he attempts to survive amid the turmoil of a war whose real nature is alien even to the country fighting it.
poster
?
7.8
/88/
62
/4/
60
/3/

An Ordinary Hero: The True Story of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (2013)
The amazing true story of civil rights pioneer Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, An Ordinary Hero is directed by award-winning filmmaker Loki Mulholland, who captures his mother's story and learns about her courage and the role she played in changing American history. As a white girl growing up in the South, Joan witnessed the ugly realities of segregation and racism firsthand and vowed to one day change it. By the time she was 19, she had already joined the Freedom Riders and participated in over three dozen sit-ins and protests. Despite being attacked by angry mobs, put on death row in the notorious Parchman Penitentiary, and coming face-to-face with the KKK, Joan never wavered from her belief that we are all created equal.
poster
62
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7.9
/150/
47
/4/
58
/5/

All Power to the People! (1996)
Using government documents, archive footage and direct interviews with activists and former FBI/CIA officers, All Power to the People documents the history of race relations and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 1960s and 70s. Covering the history of slavery, civil-rights activists, political assassinations and exploring the methods used to divide and destroy key figures of movements by government forces, the film then contrasts into Reagan-Era events, privacy threats from new technologies and the failure of the “War on Drugs”, forming a comprehensive view of the goals, aspirations and ultimate demise of the Civil Rights Movement…
poster
69
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7.2
/160/
71
/13/
67
/3/
3.4
/260/

Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost (2018)
Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost offers new insights into the Peoples Temple tragedy, exploring lingering questions about Pastor Jim Jones, his religious and social justice movement, and the deaths of his followers that day.
poster
Kanopy
69
?
7.1
/304/
71
/33/
70
/6/
3.3
/346/

Jonestown: The Women Behind the Massacre (2018)
The story of four women in Jim Jones’ inner circle who helped plan the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, one of the largest murder-suicide events in modern history which left 918 men, women and children dead.
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fuboTV
76
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7.4
/450/
72
/33/
80
/3/
3.5
/293/
88
/1/

Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston (2019)
Overcoming the seemingly insurmountable odds that life threw his way, Liston became heavyweight champion of the world when he knocked out Floyd Patterson in 1962. Eight years later, he died but friends questioned the cause of his death.
poster
?

Walls That Bleed (2012)
Walls that Bleed is a documentary about the 1969 Dudley/A&T Revolt. What started out as a protest toward a simple high school student council election, erupted into a three day bloody gun battle between local and national armed forces and the local African American community members and African American students at a local Historically Black College University (HBCU). During the unrest, 650 National Guardsmen stormed the university's campus with the help of planes and helicopter to overtake the revolting student body. Only one person was killed, a ROTC student, who's death is the oldest cold case in Greensboro, NC history. The documentary gives an in-depth look into the controversial hotbed of racial strife and protests in the late 1960s.


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