Slavery Movies

This film sheds light on the little-known history of plantations and the enslaved in North Florida. It seeks to advance a sense of place and identity...

Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus: The Movie is a short film adaptation of the game, consisting of modified cutscenes along with additional footage made specifi...

The story of a young enslaved African woman who escapes her master, flees to the Gold Coast and takes her master to court. Based on actual court trans...

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

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 und...

Peter Batty presents a gripping account of the bloodshed and horror of the American Civil War. From the origins of the unrest between North and South,...

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney Passé, wh...

Documentary about abolitionist John Brown

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

BBC News Arabic's undercover investigation exposes the people in Kuwait breaking local and international laws on modern slavery, including a woman off...

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

A documentary filmmaker travels to Bolivia to learn more about his father and his family's history.

In 1853, 28 slaves escaped from Boone County, Kentucky. Unwilling to accept their departure, wealthy plantation owners set out to locate the 28, follo...

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

Mice sold into slavery and driven to pick cotton by whip-cracking cats plot their escape to freedom.

Young Anita's life consists of working as a servant to a wealthy family, leaving her little time for anything else. Her servitude (which some would ca...

The film tells the story of modern slavery from the perspective of the only Russian organization carrying out mass rescue missions both within the cou...

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

How does a state with the motto “Live Free or Die” and a celebrated legacy of abolitionism confront and understand its participation in slavery, segre...