Slavery Movies

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

A powerful documentary starring Morgan Freeman about the genesis of The Blues in the South and the music spreading around the world. Morgan Freeman...

The film tells the story of 25-year-old Urmila Chaudary from Nepal. At the age of six she was sold by her family and was forced to work as a slave...

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

The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

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...

A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a...

A Macedonian family from Bitola at the turn of the twentieth century tries to survive, preserve its roots and remain together.

Huck is kidnapped by his father but manages to fake his own death and escape to Jackson's Island, where he coincidentally meets up with Jim, a slave...

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

Gordon, The Black Pirate, battles the slavery trade.

Parallels are drawn between Abraham Lincoln's presidency and the presidency of Donald Trump. Not since 1860 have the Democrats so fanatically refused...

A story of love, lust, violence and murder on a sadistic southern plantation during the slave era.

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...

Green Flake, a southern slave, joins Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as a child. Later on in his life he is sent to pave the way to what...

In 1885, Africa is a succulent cake destined to be wildly divided and everyone wants a piece. A disturbed European king, a Pygmy working in a luxury...

The film tells the story of a young man who dreams of securing high jobs by completing his doctorate, but is forced to spend his days in a pig farm.

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

Acclaimed actors draw from five of Douglass’ legendary speeches, to represent a different moment in the tumultuous history of 19th century...

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