Sono i primi anni ’70, un periodo di grandi sconvolgimenti sociali mentre negli Stati Uniti infuria la lotta per i diritti civili. Ron Stallworth è il primo detective afroamericano del dipartimento di polizia di Colorado Springs, ma il suo arrivo è accolto con scetticismo ed ostilità dai membri di tutte le sezioni del dipartimento. Imperterrito, Stallworth decide di farsi un nome e di fare la differenza nella sua comunità. Si imbarca quindi in una missione molto pericolosa: infiltrarsi nel Ku Klux Klan ed esporne i crimini.
Nate Foster, giovane e idealista agente dell'Fbi, affronta una missione sotto copertura per mettere fuori gioco un gruppo terrorista appartenente alla destra radicale. Deve così cercare di mantenere saldi i suoi principi mentre si muove nel mondo della malavita.
Dopo 14 anni di isolamento nel carcere di massima sicurezza di Pelican Bay, alla prima occasione di libertà, Garrett Tully si mette nuovamente nei guai quando prende in ostaggio una famiglia di neri tenendo fede alle sue convinzioni da membro della fratellanza ariana. Il patriarca della famiglia, il signor Walker, è un ex detenuto che odia i poliziotti al punto di aver anche ripudiato il figlio per esserlo diventato. Vedendo in Garrett una disperazione a lui familiare, Walker si rifiuta di chiedere aiuto, facendo così aumentare le tensioni familiari e portando a commettere alcuni gravi passi falsi.
Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease increasing racial tensions.
Ndola, Rhodesia settentrionale (attuale Zambia), 18 settembre 1961. L'economista e diplomatico svedese Dag Hammarskjöld, Segretario Generale dell'ONU, muore misteriosamente in un incidente aereo. Decenni dopo, il giornalista e regista danese Mads Brügger e il ricercatore svedese Göran Björkdahl indagano sul caso alla ricerca di una chiusura definitiva.
How the Monuments Came Down is a timely and searing look at the history of white supremacy and Black resistance in Richmond. The feature-length film-brought to life by history-makers, descendants, scholars, and activists-reveals how monuments to Confederate leaders stood for more than a century, and why they fell.
The history of warfare as it relates to global Black society, broken down into 7 chapters that examines the ways the system of racism wages warfare from a historical, psychological, sexual, biological, health, educational, and military perspective.
The little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city in 1898 — the only coup d’état in the history of the US. Stoking fears of 'Negro Rule', self-described white supremacists used intimidation and violence to destroy Black political and economic power and overthrow Wilmington’s democratically-elected, multi-racial government. Black residents were murdered and thousands were banished. The story of what happened in Wilmington was suppressed for decades until descendants and scholars began to investigate. Today, many of those descendants — Black and white — seek the truth about this intentionally buried history.
Told from the Native American perspective, this documentary will uncover the dark history of the U.S. government and will give a voice to the countless Indian children forced through the system.
The 30-year legacy of the murder of black teenager Yusuf Hawkins by a group of young white men in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, as his family and friends reflect on the tragedy and the subsequent fight for justice that inspired and divided New York City.
Sotto l'amministrazione del presidente repubblicano Donald Trump, gli Stati Uniti d'America sono un paese profondamente diviso: un lato alimenta populismo e rettitudine religiosa in un paesaggio monocromatico, dipinto di bianco, lamentando un passato che non tornerà mai più; l'altra parte alimenta la diversità e il multiculturalismo, una visione parziale di un futuro progressista, piuttosto improbabile. Entrambe le parti si confrontano costantemente, senza ascoltarsi a vicenda. Solo poche persone ragionevoli si riuniscono per cambiare questa situazione potenzialmente pericolosa.
The territory of Akwesasne straddles the Canada-U.S. border. When Canadian authorities prohibited the duty-free cross-border passage of personal purchases - a right established by the Jay Treaty of 1794 - Kanien'kéhaka protesters blocked the international bridge between Ontario and New York State.
Hidden Colors 4: The Religion Of White Supremacy is the latest follow up film to the critically acclaimed hit documentary series Hidden Colors. In this installment of the Hidden Colors series, the film explores topics such as: The motivation behind European global subjugation The history of rarely discussed vast West African empires How germ warfare is used on melanated people The history of slave breeding farms in America And much more.
In US society, people of East Asian heritage are often perceived through an obscuring lens of ethnic and cultural stereotypes. In STOLEN GROUND, six Asian-American men talk about their experience of the highly racialized United States, and consider how racism has affected their lives and those of their family members.
Profiled is a feature length documentary that knits the stories of mothers of Black and Latin unarmed youth murdered by the NYPD into a powerful indictment of racial profiling and police brutality, and places them within a historical context of the roots of racism in the U.S. Driven by anger when their demands for justice are ignored the women transition from grieving parents to activists participating in the grass roots movement now spreading across the country since the much-publicized deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Meanwhile, in Indochina, France was suffering its first military defeats in its war against the Việt Minh, the rebel movement for independence.
Fareed Zakaria explains the modern explosion in white supremacy, why the ideology is growing in the U.S. and abroad, who the leaders are, and what they want.
After an acclaimed, extended run on Broadway, comedian Alex Edelman brings his solo show to HBO in an all-new comedy special. In the wake of a string of anti-Semitic threats pointed in his direction online, Edelman decides to go straight to the source; specifically, Queens, where he covertly attends a meeting of White Nationalists and comes face-to-face with the people behind the keyboards.
For the past year, our operative Patrik Hermansson has been living undercover, as Swedish student Erik Hellberg, at the heart of the alt-right. He infiltrated some of the most notorious far-right networks in the US and the UK, culminating in the violent clashes in Charlottesville 2017. He extracted damning information that runs all of the way to the White House. And he caught it all on hidden camera.