SEMINAL WORK

Exterminate All the Brutes, from acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck, is a four-part hybrid docuseries that provides a visually arresting journey through time, into the darkest hours of humanity. Through his personal voyage, Peck deconstructs the making and masking of history, digging deep into the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism — from America to Africa and its impact on society today.

In this thought-provoking documentary, scholars, activists and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom under the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.

Will Smith hosts this look at the evolving, often lethal, fight for equal rights in America through the lens of the US Constitution's 14th Amendment.

This 6 episode series looks at equality via Citizenship, Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, LGBTQ and Immigrants Rights.

This 1968 documentary is an examination of slavery and of the attitudes established during slavery that still persisted a century after its abolition. At the height of the Civil Rights Movement and during a period of growing white backlash represented by third-party presidential candidate George Wallace, CBS News reporter George Foster interviewed black activists and descendants of plantation owners. “The Heritage of Slavery” demonstrated the parallels between attitudes that existed under slavery and those that still existed in the 1960s – attitudes that, in some places, may linger on today.

“Have black Americans had a fair shot at the American dream?” acclaimed journalist Bob Herbert asks. He probes the harsh and often brutal discrimination that has made it extremely difficult for African-Americans to establish a middle-class standard of living, while also exploring the often heroic efforts of Black families to pursue the American Dream in the face of unrelenting barriers.

The Color of Fear (Part One) is an insightful, groundbreaking film about the state of race relations in America as seen through the eyes of eight North American men of Asian, European, Latino and African descent. In a series of intelligent, emotional and dramatic confrontations the men reveal the pain and scars that racism has caused them. What emerges is a deeper sense of understanding and trust. This is the dialogue most of us fear, but hope will happen sometime in our lifetime.