Racial Discrimination Movies

Lola is a young gypsy of uncertain origin who was adopted, as a newborn, by a family among whom she has grown up with gypsy customs and traditions....

An East Indian man served 20 years in prison for standing up to racism. Upon his release, while attempting to reconcile with his son, he realizes the...

A Haitian migrant struggles to bring his son to Chile from their homeland. He works as a waiter in a restaurant where he must endure the petulance of...

Crocodile Dreaming is a modern day supernatural myth about two estranged brothers, played by iconic Indigenous actors David Gulpill and Tom E. Lewis....

A short documentary about one man’s sacrifice to survive in America.

Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in...

Fouad, a 15-year-old Moroccan immigrant, and Max, a 27-year-old "old stock" Quebecer, both live frustrating lives. Their respective destinies lead...

In the face of AAPI violence, an intergenerational coalition of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, People of Color organizers come together to...

A case of mistaken identity leads to a heated confrontation between a young Black man and two law enforcement officers.

In Tanzania there is a growing clandestine market for albino skin, bones and hair as ingredients in potions that promise to make people rich. As a...

Emma Dabiri looks at racism in Britain via the world of modern dating, love apps, and a national survey suggesting that young Britons could be more...

A reflection on the 2011 killing of Mark Duggan, a young, black, British man, at the hands of London's Metropolitan Police. Duggan was pulled over...

Arise Firebird tells the story of professional women of color pushed out of the corporate world due to workplace trauma from sexism and racism and...

A biopic of Anna May Wong, the Golden Age icon whose career brought her international recognition even as she continued to face opportunity...

Everton's painting, the focus of this documentary, expresses what is most real in man's life. In the eyes of this artist, humanity is revealed by the...

Althea Gibson was Black, and Angela Buxton was Jewish. And in 1956, they faced prevailing racism in the UK and changed the face of professional...

"I’m Just a Layman in Pursuit of Justice" chronicles the injustices of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, also known as ‘the last...

A young indigenous man contracts tuberculosis and is sent to the Charles Camsell Indian Hospital in Edmonton. He struggles with the aftereffects of...