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Films & Documentaries

Stay informed and educated with this selection of documentaries and films perfect for movie night. Get a couple friends and some popcorn, then you're ready to go!

*Documentaries

​​Black community

  • *13th 

  • *I Am Not Your Negro

  • *True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality

  • *Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland

  • *Slavery by Another Name 

  • *Crime + Punishment

  • *Whose Streets?

  • *3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets

  • *Documenting Hate: Charlottesville

  • *LA 92

  • *Race: The Power of an Illusion

  • *Boss: The Black Experience in Business

  • *Owned: A Tale of Two Americas

  • *They've Gotta Have US (docuseries)

  • Just Mercy

  • Selma

  • Blackkklansman

  • The Hate U Give

  • Moonlight

  • If Beale Street Could Talk

  • Get Out

  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

  • The Help

  • Hidden Figures

  • Do The Right Thing

  • 12 Years a Slave

  • Fruitvale Station

  • Dear White People

  • Rodney King

  • Harriet

  • Malcolm X

  • Race

  • 42

  • Marshall

  • The Greenbook

  • The Photograph

  •  Judas and the Black Messiah

​​Latinx community

  • *Immigration Nation

  • *Underwater Dreams 

  • *Inocente

  • *The Latino List

  • *Paper Children

  • *Latino Vote: Dispatches from the Battleground

  • *Dear Homeland

  • *Harvest of Empire

  • *!Palante, Siempre Palante! The Young Lords

  • *The Hand that Feeds

  • *The Sentence

  • *Dolores

  • My Family 

  • McFarland USA

  • We the Animals 

  • Southwest of Salem

  • Mosquita y Mari

  • La Mission

  • Walkout

  • Raising Victor Vargas

  • Real Woman Have Curves

Indigenous 

community

Politics, Advocacy & Action

  • *The Fight

  • *Knock Down The House

  • *John Lewis: Good Trouble

  • *Street Fight

  • *Chisholm 72: Unbought and Unbossed

  • *By The People: The Election of Barack Obama

  • *Becoming

  • *Charm City

  • *The Final Year 

  • *Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press

  • *American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs 

​​Asian & Pacific Islander community

  • *The Grace Lee Project

  • *Resistance at Tule Lake

  • *Call Her Ganda

  • *Maya Lin: A Clear Strong Vision

  • *9-Man

  • *Stateless

  • *The Chinese Exclusion Act

  • *Finding Kukan

  • *Off the Menu: Asia America

  • *Bad Rap

  • *Random Acts of Legacy

  • *Good Luck Soup

  • *Minding the Gap

  • *Refugee

  • The Farewell

  • The Joy Luck Club

  • The Namesake

  • Spa Night

  • Tigertail

  • Crazy Rich Asians

  • Better Luck Tomorrow

  • Gook

  • Saving Face

  • Journey from the Fall

  • The Motel

  • Advantageous

  • Raya and the Last Dragon

  • Minari

Arab community

  • *Taxi to the Dark Side

  • *American Muslim

  • *A Thousand and One Journeys: The Arab Americans

  • *Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

  • *Perfect Candidate

  • *Brothers and Others: the Impact of September 11th on Arabs, Muslims, and Southeast Asians in America

  • *Caught Between Two Worlds

  • *Nouri's Dance

  • Amreeka

  • Ramy (TV series)

  • American East

  • Detroit Unleaded

  • House of Sand and Fog

  • *Gather

  • *Basketball or Nothing

  • *This May Be the Last Time

  • *Warrior Women

  • *Conscience Point

  • *Dawnland

  • *Water Warriors

  • *A Good Day to Die

  • *Reel Injun

  • *Out of State

  • *Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

  • Dances with Wolves

  • Indian Horse

  • Wind River

  • Songs My Brothers Taught Me

  • Smoke Signals 

  • Shouting Secrets

  • Skins

  • Empire of Dirt

  • The Lesser Blessed

  • Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

"CINEMA IS A MIRROR BY WHICH WE OFTEN SEE OURSELVES."

-Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu 

MultiRacial/

Multiethnic community

  • *Little White Lie

  • *Mixed Match

  • *The Loving Story

  • *Mixed

  • *Being Both (short documentary film)

  • *Anomaly: A Documentary about Multiracial Identity

  • *The Loving Generation (short docuseries)

  • *MixedUp

  • Loving

  • A United Kingdom

  • Belle

  • Beyond the Lights

  • Yelling to the Sky

  • Little Boxes

  • West Side Story

  • Island in the Sun

  • Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

  • Mississippi Masala

  • The Joy Luck Club

  • Black or White

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