Slavery Movies

A descendant of the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history, filmmaker Katrina Browne explores the contemporary legacy of slavery by traveling...

On November 17, 2015, construction on Baldwin Hall on the University of Georgia campus came to a halt when workers uncovered human remains on the...

William Still was one of the most important, yet largely unheralded heroes of the Underground Railroad. Still was determined to get as many runaways...

She was 29 years old, and a slave. She'd never been to school and could not read or write. She had been beaten, abused, and humiliated. Except for...

In a time when poor mexicans, contemptuously called indians, were treated as slaves by the rich. Things were unfair, unbalanced. Django, a mexican...

When a raiding party from the city of Atlantis kidnaps a man and his two daughters for slavery, he contrives to bring about the destruction of the...

The last of three animated films about the history of the exploited underclass in the Nordic countries through the ages. The first two were...

Lesson in History was produced when Peters was a student at the West Surrey School of Art and Design. Having read The People Could Fly by Virginia...

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

Documentary about reggae in Jamaica and its history. Filmed in 1979.

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

In the Bernese Alps, the Agassizhorn peak memorialises Louis Agassiz – a controversial 19th-century scientist, who not only named the mountain...

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

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...

Directed by Elio Suhamy.

An up-close look at the true nature of the sex trade. The film unveils a growing problem in major U.S. cities where girls as young as 12 years old...