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1) Seadrift
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 1979, a Vietnamese refugee shoots and kills a white crab fisherman at the public town docks in Seadrift, TX. What began as a dispute over fishing territory erupts into violence and ignites a maelstrom of boat burnings, KKK intimidation, and other hostilities against refugees along the Gulf Coast.
Taking place after the Fall of Saigon, when hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese nationals desperately fled the communist takeover of their home country,
...Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Arabic
Description
Holot (Hebrew for "Sands") is a detention center in the middle of the Israeli desert that was built to quickly address an influx of African asylum seekers, mostly refugees from Eritrea and Sudan. The migrants in Holot have no legal status in Israel, and the government seems to have no plan to grant them asylum, so they remain in an indefinite state of limbo. Into this Beckettian reality enter theater director Chen Alon and filmmaker Avi Mograbi. Their...
Publisher
Unobstructed View
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
Based on the landmark memoir by John Howard Griffin, BLACK LIKE ME stars James Whitmore as Griffin, who medically altered his pigment and, with the help of a sunlamp, reinvented himself as an itinerant black writer navigating his way through Mississippi and Alabama. Along the way he experienced firsthand both crushing racism and the incredible life force of the Afro-American communities.
4) The Believer
Publisher
LoneStar Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy. Based on the factual story of a K.K.K. member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter.
Publisher
Diamond Law
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of four people of color in the Pacific Northwest coping with microaggressions and implicit bias in everyday life. Their vivid stories create "reveal" moments, where the truth about lived experience shines and inspires. A white ally discusses his experience of privilege as he struggles to learn about and change his own racial bias.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Discover the truth behind the scandalous 1930s rape and murder case involving a Navy wife, her society mother, Clarence Darrow, and five nonwhite Hawaiians that shook the island paradise and exposed the racial tensions roiling beneath the surface.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
DOCUMENTING HATE - CHARLOTTESVILLE is the first in a series of two films from FRONTLINE and ProPublica that investigates and exposes the resurgence of white supremacists and Neo-Nazis involved in the 2017 Charlottesville rally. This film shows how some of those behind the racist violence went unpunished and continued to operate around the country.
Publisher
Stourwater Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2017 Asian American International Film Festival Audience Choice Award, Documentary, PROOF OF LOYALTY: KAZUO YAMANE AND THE NISEI SOLDIERS OF HAWAII tells the story of a Japanese American who played a crucial strategic role in World War II. He and his fellow Nisei from Hawaii combatted prejudice and discrimination to loyally serve their country. Their extraordinary service, mostly untold, ultimately changed the course of U.S. history....
11) Cane River
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Written, produced, and directed by Emmy Award-winning documentarian, Horace B. Jenkins, and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew, CANE RIVER is a racially-charged love story in Natchitoches Parish, a “free community of color” in Louisiana. A budding, forbidden romance lays bare the tensions between two black communities, both descended from slaves but of disparate opportunity—the light-skinned, property-owning Creoles and the...
12) Divided States
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
DIVIDED STATES seeks to document the current state of hate in America by exploring the lives of those who have experienced it firsthand and emerged transformed.
13) American Violet
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After an overzealous district attorney's drug bust lands her in jail, single mother Dee Roberts must face an agonizing choice: Plead guilty and go home a convicted felon, or fight the charges and risk a lengthy prison sentence. Despite her mother's advice and risking everything, innocent Dee chooses to fight the criminal justice system, joined by an ACLU attorney and a former narcotics cop.
14) 500 years
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
This new documentary tells the epic story that led Guatemala to a tipping point in their history from the genocide trial of former dictator General Rios Montt to the popular movement that toppled sitting President Otto Perez Molina. Focusing on universal themes of justice, racism, power and corruption, 500 YEARS tells the story from the perspective of the majority indigenous Mayan population, and their struggles in their country's growing fight against...
15) Bully
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
BULLY is an unflinching look at how bullying has touched five kids and their families, revealing a problem that transcends geographic, racial, and ethnic borders.
16) Blue eyed
Author
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Blue Eyed we meet a group of 40 teachers, policemen, school administrators and social workers in/from Kansas City Blacks, Hispanics, Whites, men and women. The "blue eyed” participants are confronted with pseudo-scientific explanations of their inferiority, culturally biased IQ tests and discrimination. Within a few hours under Elliotts destructive power we see how adult persons despair and (almost) go crazy, not being able to cope with the...
17) Exit
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A personal and urgent look at the ways people legitimize hatred and the threats they face when they attempt to leave their radicalized worlds behind. Paralleling her own past as part of a violent right-wing organization with the experiences of other former extremists, filmmaker Karen Winther explores what makes someone join neo-Nazis, Jihadists or other hate groups, and what makes them decide to leave. Winther introduces us to Angela from the US and...
18) Not My Idea
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A white child sees TV coverage of a police shooting—and has some questions. Adults in the child’s life deflect and turn away, but a narrator, voiced by the author Anastasia Higginbotham, invites the child—and viewers—to become curious about racism, accept that it's real, and cultivate justice.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
In 1963 civil rights leader Medgar Evers was murdered in his owndriveway. For 30 years his assassin has remained free. Alec Baldwinstars as a dedicated young trial lawyer, and Whoopi Goldberg stars asthe widow of renowned civil rights leader Medgar Evers in the truemurder story GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI. On June 12, 1963, an assassin'sbullet kills Medgar Evers. But nearly 31 years pass before his killerfaces justice when Attorney Bobby DeLaughter (Baldwin--The...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Distinguished historian John H. Bracey Jr. offers a provocative analysis of the devastating economic, political, and social effects of racism on white Americans. In a departure from analyses of racism that have focused primarily on white power and privilege, Bracey trains his focus on the high price that white people, especially working class whites, have paid for more than two centuries of divisive race-based policies and attitudes. Whether he's...
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