M.L. King, Jr. Day

In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.

Aretha Franklin sings in her father's church choir as a child and grows up to become an international musical superstar and legend.

Summer Of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is a feature documentary about the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which celebrated African American music and culture.

World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.

The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.

A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.

T'Challa, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to succeed to the throne and take his rightful place as king.

Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s.

A team of African-American women provide NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the program's first successful space missions.

The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.

A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

Inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle the story centers around the illegitimate mixed race daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield and his wife, Belle's lineage affords...

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960's decides to write a book detailing the African-American maid's point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go...

In Roman-ruled Britain, a young Roman soldier endeavors to honor his father's memory by finding his lost legion's golden emblem.

A focus on the Civil Rights leader's many groundbreaking accomplishments.

An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.