Black American History - movie trailers

About Black American history in general

Amend: the fight for America, 2021

Will Smith hosts this look at the evolving, often lethal, fight for equal rights in America through the lens of the US Constitution's 14th Amendment. 

About the Civil Rights Movement, and Civil Rights Activists 

 

 Loving, Jeff Nichols, 2016

The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.

 

Selma, Ava DuVernay, 2014

A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.

 

 

 The Butler, Lee Daniels, 2013

As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.

 

 

Mississippi Burning, Alan Parker, 1988

Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.

MalcolmX, Spike Lee, 1992

Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam.

 

 

 

About Segregation and the Jim Crow Laws

Hidden Figures, Theodore Melfi, 2016
The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

The help, Tate Taylor, 2011
An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.

Race, Stepehn Hopkins, 2016
Jesse Owens' quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy. 

Green Book, Peter Farrelly, 2019
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.

Self-Made: inspired by the story of Madam CJ Walker, 2020

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About Slavery and Abolition

Lincoln, Steven Spielberg, 2012

As the American Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves. 

Harriet, Kasi Lemmons, 2019

The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.

12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen, 2013

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. 

 

 

Amistad, Stevenb Spielberg, 1997

In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.