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

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

An intense drama about a boy torn between his tough, hard-working father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss.

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a fresh look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century.

A white supremacist is released from prison a changed man and hopes to prevent his younger brother from following in his footsteps.

An estranged couple reunite in a Florida police station to help find their missing teenage son.

A profile of Anita Hill, the African-American lawyer who challenged Clarence Thomas' nomination to the US Supreme Court and thus exposed the problem of sexual harassment to the world.

Join former first lady Michelle Obama in an intimate documentary looking at her life, hopes and connection with others during her 2019 book tour for 'Becoming.'

The biracial daughter, Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), of Royal Navy Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) is raised by aristocratic Great-uncle Lord William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) in 18th century England.

Documentary with host Henry Louis Gates Jr. chronicles the triumphs, struggles and contradictions of the last fifty years in African American History.

Kate is a survivor of the Rwandan genocide whose adoptive mother, an international lawyer, faces a case that will shake their lives.

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.

A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago, Illinois.

A documentary on Brooklyn-based Congresswoman Shirley's Chisholm's 1972 presidential bid.

A group of brave NYPD officers risk it all to expose the truth about illegal quota practices in police departments.

When Colin Warner is wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devotes his life to proving Colin's innocence.

At a predominantly white Ivy League college, a group of black students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.

The lives of four black students at an Ivy League college.

With the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi.

An account of the increasing use of military weapons and tactics by local law enforcement in the United States, counterpointed with civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri following the shooting of Michael Brown in 2014.

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

A propulsive narrative chronicling the fight for racial justice in America, from Obama's election to Black Lives Matter, highlighting the heroic individuals who sparked change.

February One tells the inspiring story surrounding the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins that revitalized the Civil Rights Movement and set an example for student militancy of the coming decade.

Before the popularity of AncestryDNA, journalist and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr. divulges the family trees of various celebrities, many times with stunning revelations.