Movies

Overview

Many of the movies below may contain mature content. As such, please check with your parents or guardians before watching them.

In addition, many of the movies and films are behind paywalls on services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video. However, not all of the movies are behind paywalls. For example, you can access Kanopy and Hoopla if you have a library card.

Where can I watch movies?

Kanopy

A free service that you can access with a library card. The service currently has a section titled Social and Systemic Injustice. There are some very powerful movies and films in this section.

Hoopla

A free service that you can access with a library card. You can access audiobooks, ebooks and other media, in addition to movies, but Hoopla has multiple sections under movies that are about Black history or injustice.

Amazon Prime Video

A paid service that is included with an Amazon Prime subscription. Prime Video has an entire section they just added called Black History, Hardship and Hope. There are some great movies and films in this section.

Netflix

A paid service that has a lot of great movies and flims. However, the films can be little hard to find if you don't know the film you want to watch. A great place to start is watching The Help. You can look at similar films based on this selection.

I don't know where to start. Any recommendations?

Selma | Select Your Provider to WatchDr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) wages a historic battle to win voting rights for all.

Just Mercy - Watch for FreeJust Mercy - #JustMercy - Watch for Free

Both of the films above are free to watch for the month of June. Click on the pictures above for details.

13TH | Netflix Official SiteIn this thought-provoking documentary, scholars, activists and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom.

Teach Us All | NetflixIt's been decades since Brown v. Board of Education, yet American schools remain largely segregated. Some leaders are working to change that.

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise | PBSIn his new four-hour series, BLACK AMERICA SINCE MLK: AND STILL I RISE, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. embarks on a deeply personal journey through the last fifty years of African American history. Joined by leading scholars, celebrities, and a dynamic cast of people who shaped these years, Gates travels from the victories of the civil rights movement up to today, asking profound questions about the state

Whose Streets?Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the street for hours, it marks a breaking point for the residents of St. Louis, Missouri. Grief, long-standing racial tensions an

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