Slavery Movies

A powerful documentary starring Morgan Freeman about the genesis of The Blues in the South and the music spreading around the world. Morgan Freeman...

The incidents of this story are some of those preceding and leading up to the Civil War in 1861 and the Declaration of Emancipation. The central...

In the eighteenth century, the family of BBC World News anchor and correspondent, Laura Trevelyan, were absentee slave owners on the island of...

Salvador, Bahia, January 1835. After more than a decade of hard work, Guilhermina, 27, a slave of Muslim origin, finally gets the resources to buy...

A documentary following the life of Olaudah Equiano, based on his autobiography "The Interesting Narration of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or...

Ghost Fleet follows a small group of activists who risk their lives on remote Indonesian islands to find justice and freedom for the enslaved...

Peter Batty presents a gripping account of the bloodshed and horror of the American Civil War. From the origins of the unrest between North and...

The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.

Travel across four continents, through 19 countries, and into dingy Cambodian karaoke bars, Amsterdam’s infamous red-light district, Moldovan...

Love blossoms between Maroc, a singing boat refugee, and Lisa, a collector of singing seashells who dreams about love.

A son sets out to look for the man responsible for his father's disappearance, which is connected to a stolen diamond. Eventually, he steals the...

In July 1860, the schooner Clotilda slipped quietly into the dark waters of Mobile, Ala., holding 110 Africans stolen from their homes and families,...

In this short film, in search of a cinematic grammar more in tune with Creole imaginary and oral tradition, we follow Ondine's quest. She returns to...

Slavery has always been part of Sudan's history, but in recent years it has become a new means in Sudanese warfare. Focuses on the moral dilemma aid...

The first screen adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel to star a black man in the title role.

The true story of Eudocia Tomas Pullido, an enslaved woman who served Pulitzer Prize-winning Filipino-American writer Alex Tizon's family ceaselessly...

How does a state with the motto “Live Free or Die” and a celebrated legacy of abolitionism confront and understand its participation in...

What if enslaved people came back from the dead as zombies but only ate white people?

"River of Hope" tells the story of how a former slave Mary Barnes Cabell and her children helped found the first college for African Americans in...

Mice sold into slavery and driven to pick cotton by whip-cracking cats plot their escape to freedom.