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Hulu
76
7.6
/15548/
77
/799/
75
/303/
3.8
/27104/
93
/179/
78
/297/
71
/32/
cc age 10+

RBG (2018)
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fighting for equal rights for all citizens under the law. Through intimate interviews and unprecedented access to Ginsburg’s life outside the court, RBG tells the electric story of Ginsburg’s consuming love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved husband Marty—and of a life’s work that led her to become an icon of justice in the highest court in the land.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
6.8
/6528/
68
/293/
67
/118/
3.8
/26727/
98
/132/
51
/43/
91
/23/
cc age 14+

Time (2020)
Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated husband. An intimate, epic, and unconventional love story, filmed over two decades.
poster
Kanopy
74
7.0
/27350/
70
/589/
66
/318/
3.1
/16537/
78
/72/
76
/1033/
71
/31/
cc age 13+

Mansfield Park (1999)
Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
72
6.4
/6637/
65
/319/
60
/188/
3.5
/10094/
92
/177/
48
/115/
78
/31/
cc age 12+

A Quiet Passion (2016)
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
poster
72
7.3
/34640/
73
/1212/
70
/710/
3.5
/27131/
84
/152/
82
/626/
64
/35/
cc age 11+

Belle (2013)
Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in England.
poster
Kanopy
72
7.3
/86895/
73
/2045/
70
/1375/
3.5
/49012/
78
/68/
79
/1629/
64
/23/
cc age 15+

Amistad (1997)
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
poster
71
7.3
/384931/
72
/13212/
68
/7361/
3.5
/182146/
66
/287/
66
/7359/
55
/45/
cc age 16+

Cloud Atlas (2012)
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
poster
71
7.4
/26398/
72
/483/
69
/310/
3.4
/6633/
68
/123/
85
/4570/
65
/29/
cc age 10+

Amazing Grace (2006)
The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.
poster
69
7.6
/11053/
72
/195/
68
/81/
3.5
/6246/
68
/19/
84
/585/
cc age 10+

1776 (1972)
Colonial representatives gather in Philadelphia with the aim of establishing a set of governmental rules for the burgeoning United States. Benjamin Franklin and John Adams charge Thomas Jefferson with the task of writing a statement announcing the new country's emancipation from British rule.
poster
64
6.7
/15177/
69
/336/
63
/199/
3.4
/7248/
65
/68/
66
/318/
69
/29/

Ride with the Devil (1999)
Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. Director Ang Lee takes us to a no man's land on the Missouri/Kansas border where a staunch loyalist, an immigrant's son, a freed slave, and a young widow form an unlikely friendship as they learn how to survive in an uncertain time. In a place without rules and redefine the meaning of bravery and honor.
poster
AMC+ Amazon Channel
63
59
6.4
/5334/
62
/195/
57
/79/
3.3
/2735/
79
/62/
56
/460/
62
/21/

C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2005)
Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.
poster
Starz Apple TV Channel
57
6.0
/1730/
70
/183/
76
/90/
3.1
/779/
67
/15/
64
/16/
39
/4/
cc age 13+

Emperor (2020)
An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.
poster
53
6.4
/61926/
70
/5128/
62
/1364/
2.8
/27462/
35
/237/
42
/456/
49
/43/
cc age 17+

Live by Night (2016)
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
poster
MGM Plus
57
47
6.2
/4526/
65
/80/
56
/56/
2.8
/1648/
56
/9/
50
/38/

Santa Fe Trail (1940)
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
poster
64
46
6.5
/2802/
67
/56/
62
/44/
3.4
/1052/
60
/5/
65
/35/

Band of Angels (1957)
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.
poster
73
45
7.3
/2251/
71
/27/
68
/26/
3.4
/851/
86
/7/
69
/27/

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
poster
69
41
7.0
/1691/
68
/27/
69
/30/
3.4
/964/
80
/5/
79
/8/
54
/4/

The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
poster
Hoopla
67
40
7.0
/2163/
65
/43/
66
/33/
3.4
/982/
61
/10/
73
/4/

Skin Game (1971)
Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in the pre–Civil War American West. In their scam, Quincy sells Jason into slavery, frees him, and the two move on to the next town of suckers . . . until a con gone wrong leads Jason into real danger.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
56
39
5.7
/1855/
57
/42/
54
/38/
3.1
/1333/
75
/12/
36
/29/

Abraham Lincoln (1930)
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
poster
?
7.5
/77/
72
/4/
43
/5/

Call + Response (2008)
Call + Response is a first of its kind feature documentary film that reveals the world’s 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are more slaves today than ever before in human history. Call + Response goes deep undercover where slavery is thriving from the child brothels of Cambodia to the slave brick kilns of rural India to reveal that in 2007, Slave Traders made more money than Google, Nike and Starbucks combined. Luminaries on the issue and many other prominent political and cultural figures offer first hand account of this 21st century trade. Performances from Grammy-winning and critically acclaimed artists move this chilling information into inspiration for stopping it. Music is part of the movement against human slavery. Dr. Cornel West connects the music of the American slave fields to the popular music we listen to today, and offers this connection as a rallying cry for the modern abolitionist movement currently brewing.
poster
61
?
6.7
/203/
63
/8/
53
/3/

Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad (1994)
A number of slaves risk their lives to escape their masters with their only help coming from the famous secret slave escape network.
poster
?
7.2
/38/
50
/1/
50

Lions Among Men (2011)
A woman is shipwrecked on an island with her captors. So she fights to survive...
poster
?
7.0
/23/
20
/1/

Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition (1998)
The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.
poster
?
6.9
/43/
80
/2/

Friendly Persuasion (1975)
During the Civil War, a Quaker couple risks their lives by helping runaway slaves.
poster
66
?
7.3
/350/
71
/12/
53
/3/
3.4
/295/

The French Revolution (2005)
On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the King's military stores. A decade of idealism, war, murder, and carnage followed, bringing about the end of feudalism and the rise of equality and a new world order. The French Revolution is a definitive feature-length documentary that encapsulates this heady (and often headless) period in Western civilization. With dramatic reenactments, illustrations, and paintings from the era, plus revealing accounts from journals and expert commentary from historians, The French Revolution vividly unfurls in a maelstrom of violence, discontent, and fundamental change. King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Maximilien Robespierre, and Napoleon Bonaparte lead a cast of thousands in this essential program from THE HISTORY CHANNEL®. Narrated by Edward Herrmann (The Aviator, Gilmore Girls), The French Revolution explores the legacy that--now more than ever--stands as both a warning and a guidepost to a new millennium
poster
fuboTV
62
?
6.5
/321/
55
/5/
66
/4/
64
/3/

Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble (2000)
Fanny Kemble is a famous star of the English stage, but while touring the United States, she gives up her career to marry wealthy American Pierce Butler. Moving with him from Philadelphia to his Georgia plantation, Fanny sees slavery firsthand, and her outrage leads her to help the family's slaves in open defiance of her spouse. Undaunted by the consequences, Fanny eventually writes a book that strengthens the anti-slavery movement.
poster
?
100
/1/

Underground (2020)
In the extravagant whaling city of 1850s New Bedford, MA, one family is conflicted and divided by the treatment of African Americans during the height of slavery in pre-civil war America. William M. Thomas, a medical surgeon, is a man of questionable faith and principles, until he hears the audible voice of God. The near death experience and commanding voice of The Almighty shakes William to his spiritual core. What begins as a righteous quest for American freedom and human redemption, ultimately transforms the traveling doctor into the most notorious abolitionist of Ante-Bellum America. His wife, the most affluent and powerful woman in the New World, covers her husbands tracks, until one day he goes too far. Now all are left to choose between life or death; security or sacrifice; passivity or justice; faith or fear.
poster
51
?
6.4
/407/
41
/5/
52
/5/

Seven Angry Men (1955)
Rise, fall and execution of John Brown, fanatic abolitionist.
poster
?
7.3
/49/
35
/2/
70
/1/

Pressure of Guilt (1963)
Mystery film.
poster
?
6.6
/7/
10
/1/

Frederick Douglass: An American Life (1985)
This director's cut of the William Greaves' documentary short film dramatizes the life and deeds of the noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
poster
?
7.0
/43/
83
/5/

Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency (2007)
A fascinating account of the presidency of Andrew Jackson, who was both one of America's great presidents and a borderline tyrant. The seventh president shook up the glossy world of Washington, DC with his "common-man" methods and ideals, but also oversaw one of the most controversial events in American history: the forced removal of Indian tribes, including the Cherokees, from their homes.
poster
?
7.2
/41/
45
/2/

The Underground Railroad (1999)
The Underground Railroad was not really a railroad, nor was it always underground. It was an informal network of people and hiding places that helped slaves escape the American South. It extended from the South into the northern states, Canada, the western frontier, and even Cuba and the Caribbean. This documentary remembers the people, white and black, famous and almost-forgotten, who risked their fortunes and even their lives to resist the unjust institution of slavery.
poster
?

Frederick Douglass - My Path to Freedom
In 1845 Frederick Douglass, who seven years earlier had escaped slavery in Maryland, wrote his first autobiography "My Narrative" at his new home in Lynn, Massachusetts.


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