Films: Civil Rights
Browse the entire American Experience series featuring over 250 films. Watch full films online, download teacher’s guides, go behind the scenes, and learn more about your favorite films.
Adam Clayton Powell : 1 hr
A civil rights leader in Harlem before entering politics, Powell was one of the most charismatic black leaders of the 20th century.
Citizen King
An African American minister whose dream of ending racism galvanized millions of Americans in the civil rights movement.
A Class Apart : 1 hr
From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that successfully challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican Americans.
Eyes on the Prize
This acclaimed 14-hour series covers all of the major events of the civil rights movement from 1954-1985, tracing African Americans' struggle for equality and justice.
The Fight
A man who symbolized African American equality fought a proponent of Hitler's Aryan racial theories on the eve of World War II.
Freedom Riders : 2 hrs
A courageous band of civil rights activists called Freedom Riders who in 1961 challenged segregation in the American South.
Freedom on My Mind : 2 hrs
The Freedom Summer of 1964 saw whites and blacks coming together in a nonviolent army to bring national attention to the struggle for racial equality.
George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
The Alabama governor and presidential candidate promised segregation forever.
Geronimo : 1 hr
The Chiricahua Apache medicine man and warrior who refused to accept white man's 'civilization.' Part of The Wild West collection.
Goin' Back To T-Town : 1 hr
The black residents of Tulsa relive their community's remarkable rise and tragic decline.
Ida B. Wells - A Passion for Justice : 1 hr
An African American civil rights leader, Ida B. Wells was born into slavery before becoming a journalist in Memphis.
Jesse Owens : 1 hr
His stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. Premiering May 1.
John Brown's Holy War
Murderer, martyr, hero - John Brown's violent crusade against slavery would divide the nation and spark the Civil War.
Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory
In the decade after the Civil War, former slaves sing their way into a nation's heart with spirituals, the religious anthems of slavery.
Kennedy vs. Wallace - A Crisis Up Close : 1 hr
A portrait of JFK and his brother Robert as they confront Alabama governor George Wallace over segregation.
Los Mineros : 1 hr
The story of the Mexican American miners whose labor battles shaped the course of Arizona history.
Malcolm X - Make It Plain
Malcolm X, a man who both terrified and inspired, expressed the anger and struggle of black people for freedom in the 1960s.
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
Marcus Garvey, a black nationalist leader from Jamaica, had great successes and failures before being jailed and deported from the US in 1927.
Midnight Ramble : 1 hr
The little-known story of a black independent film industry that produced nearly 500 feature films for African American audiences.
The Murder of Emmett Till
The acquittal of the murderers of Chicago teen Emmett Till mobilized the civil rights movement.
One Woman, One Vote : 2 hrs
The women's suffrage movement won the right to vote when the 19th Amendment passed in 1920.
Partners of the Heart
At the height of segregation, an unlikely alliance between a black medical genius and a white surgeon led to a pioneering medical breakthrough.
Reconstruction - The Second Civil War
The stories of ordinary people in the tumultuous years after the Civil War, when America struggled to rebuild the Union.
Roberto Clemente : 1 hr
Clemente was an exceptional baseball player whose career sheds light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights and cultural change.
Roots of Resistance - The Story of the Underground : 1 hr
Men and women, black and white, risked their lives to carve an elaborate network of escape routes out of slavery.
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
The trial of nine falsely accused African American teens in Alabama would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War.
Simple Justice : 2 hrs
The legal efforts by a team of African American lawyers to eradicate segregation ultimately led to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
Soundtrack for a Revolution : 2 hrs
The story of the American civil rights movement is told through its powerful music -- the freedom songs that protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, in police wagons, and in jail cells as they fought for justice and equality.
Stonewall Uprising : 90 mins
In 1969, homosexuality was illegal in almost every state... but that was about to change. The Stonewall riots marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement.
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