Slavery Movies

  • 2008
    Meeting David Wilson

    Meeting David Wilson

    Meeting David Wilson

    72008HD

    African American filmmaker David A. Wilson decided to look into his family's history during the slave era. The result is this documentary, which...

    Meeting David Wilson
  • 2014
    Circle Unbroken: A Gullah Journey from Africa to America

    Circle Unbroken: A Gullah Journey from Africa to America

    Circle Unbroken: A Gullah Journey from Africa to America

    02014HD

    75% of all enslaved Africans coming to America came in through Beaufort and the sea islands of South Carolina. This beautiful and picturesque tourist...

    Circle Unbroken: A Gullah Journey from Africa to America
  • 2004
    Suite for Freedom

    Suite for Freedom

    Suite for Freedom

    02004HD

    A trio of short films commissioned to be shown to visitors entering the National Freedom Center in Cincinnati Ohio. Freedom and Unfreedom by...

    Suite for Freedom
  • 2021
    Nieuw Licht - Het Rijksmuseum en de Slavernij

    Nieuw Licht - Het Rijksmuseum en de Slavernij

    Nieuw Licht - Het Rijksmuseum en de Slavernij

    02021HD

    Nieuw Licht - Het Rijksmuseum en de Slavernij
  • 2019
    Follow the Drinking Gourd

    Follow the Drinking Gourd

    Follow the Drinking Gourd

    02019HD

    FOLLOW THE DRINKING GOURD is a feature documentary about the Black food justice movement. Family-friendly, funny, and moving, this 60-minute film...

    Follow the Drinking Gourd
  • 2019
    INFINITY minus Infinity

    INFINITY minus Infinity

    INFINITY minus Infinity

    02019HD

    INFINITY minus Infinity draws on several inspirations: the modernist verse of the Jamaican poet Una Marson, the alluvial invocations of the...

    INFINITY minus Infinity
  • 1970
    Fatal Promises

    Fatal Promises

    Fatal Promises

    01970HD

    Every year, an estimated 800,000 persons are trafficked across international borders and forced into sexual or labour servitude. Estimates are that...

    Fatal Promises
  • 1970
    Bongó Itá

    Bongó Itá

    Bongó Itá

    01970HD

    A rare close-up of the Abakuá —an Afro-Cuban religious brotherhood that has been hidden from outsiders until recently. A symbol of...

    Bongó Itá
  • 2021
    Nous avons des cendres pour offrandes

    Nous avons des cendres pour offrandes

    Nous avons des cendres pour offrandes

    02021HD

    Nous avons des cendres pour offrandes
  • 1987
    Papobo

    Papobo

    Papobo

    01987HD

    In the city of Havana in 1964, Papolo, son of a free slave, decides to give a Christmas toy to his sister. He discovers the city and its inhabitants...

    Papobo
  • 2016
    The Sea is History

    The Sea is History

    The Sea is History

    02016HD

    A materialist and animist critique of European colonial history, reading the past as something entangled within the present, made up of living and...

    The Sea is History