Slavery Movies

The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.

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

In this short film, in search of a cinematic grammar more in tune with Creole imaginary and oral tradition, we follow Ondine's quest. She returns to...

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

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...

The story of Benjamin Banneker, the early American patriot whose achievements rival those of Benjamin Franklin!! Risking his life, working with 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...

An inside look at slavery in the country of Burkina Faso, The Courage Of Others follows the journey of a slave (played by Sotigui Kouyaté)...

Slavery has always been part of Sudan's history, but in recent years it has become a new means in Sudanese warfare. Focuses on the moral dilemma aid...

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

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...

Salvador, Bahia, January 1835. After more than a decade of hard work, Guilhermina, 27, a slave of Muslim origin, finally gets the resources to buy...

What if enslaved people came back from the dead as zombies but only ate white people?

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...

Seville, Spain, 14th century. A group of black slaves brought from Africa form the Hermandad de los Negros, a Holy Week brotherhood that has survived...

The film tells the story of a young man who dreams of securing high jobs by completing his doctorate, but is forced to spend his days in a pig farm.

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

The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

After Phyllis discovers that her daughter Cecilia can read, she’s torn between abiding to her slave owner’s commands or encouraging her...