Slavery Movies

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just...

The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition,...

This animated short revolves around the events causing an electrical systems failure on the west coast of the US. According to Blade Runner...

The story of a farmer forced into conscription, who has been looking to get out of the army ever since. His great chance arrives when he stumbles...

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are...

After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of...

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Korea then) sent a delegation of many diplomats,...

In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is...

Two contempo Frenchmen of Antillean descent visit their ancestor's time as well as their land in the slavery-themed French era.

During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an...

In 1902, an African-American family living on a sea island off the coast of South Carolina prepares to move to the North.

Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.

A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.

Jason, an American lawyer, poses as a john to build a legal case against a pimp trafficking girls to Bangkok. Can he win the trust of a young...

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...

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the...

Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to...

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British...

Documentary about abolitionist John Brown