Slavery Movies

On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of...

The Albatross travels from England to the New World in 1675, with a number of passengers, a couple of political prisoners along with a dozen other...

This epic Spanish biopic chronicles the life of Cervantes, Spain's great novelist, playwright and poet, during the 16th-century, when as a young man...

Rise, fall and execution of John Brown, fanatic abolitionist.

A descendant of the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history, filmmaker Katrina Browne explores the contemporary legacy of slavery by traveling...

Alternating interview segments, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from Aimé Césaire's play La Tragédie du roi Christophe...

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...

The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine atributes" in order to get power.

The film expresses the history of oppression, discrimination, violence and hate in America. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best...

On a photo shoot in Ghana, an American model slips back in time, becomes enslaved on a plantation and bears witness to the agony of her ancestral...

Simon Schama presents a drama-documentary that charts the extraordinary journey of the American slaves who fought for the British side in the...

The decades-long debate surrounding reparations is fraught, mired in racial tension and the semantics of restorative justice. While the national...

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

A Black man attends a white friend's Southern plantation wedding, and becomes haunted by its history.

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

A materialist and animist critique of European colonial history, reading the past as something entangled within the present, made up of living and...

Cecily is a lovely young woman, so lovely in fact people can't help but be drawn to her beauty. This becomes a problem for the naive girl once her...

In 1956, BLOOMER GIRL was presented in a live television production starring the magnificent Barbara Cook, whose star was then on the rise, with...

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

During the Civil War, a Quaker couple risks their lives by helping runaway slaves.