What Should I Stream?

What Should I Stream?

Civil Rights Documentaries - What Should I Stream?

Civil Rights Documentaries

A Secret Love

A Secret Love

Amid shifting times, two women kept their decades-long love a secret. But coming out later in life comes with its own set of challenges.
 She's Beautiful When She's Angry

She's Beautiful When She's Angry

Filmmaker Mary Dore chronicles the events, the movers and the shakers of the feminist movement from 1966 to 1971.
 The Square

The Square

A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.
 Strong Island

Strong Island

When Yance Ford investigates the 1992 murder of a young black man, it becomes an achingly personal journey since the victim was the filmmaker's brother.
 Time

Time

Fox Rich spends 20 years campaigning for the release of her husband who is serving a 60-year prison sentence for a robbery they both committed in the 1990s out of desperation.
 Time: The Kalief Browder Story

Time: The Kalief Browder Story

This series traces the tragic case of Kalief Browder, a Bronx teen who spent three horrific years in jail, despite not being convicted of a crime.
 The Times of Harvey Milk

The Times of Harvey Milk

A remarkable documentary which chronicles Harvey Milk's journey to become a San Francisco supervisor which results in his tragic assassination.
 Uprising

Uprising

1981: a devastating fire leaves 13 black teens dead. The protests, unrest and accusations of indifference defined race relations for a generation.
 West of Memphis

West of Memphis

West of Memphis, a powerful Peter Jackson documentary, charts the ongoing fight for justice for three men wrongly convicted as child killers.
 What Happened, Miss Simone?

What Happened, Miss Simone?

Classically trained pianist, black power icon and legendary recording artist Nina Simone lived a life of brutal honesty, musical genius, and tortured melancholy.
 White Boy

White Boy

In 1980s Detroit, a 17-year-old runs a sophisticated drug operation. Thirty years later, journalists, police and federal agents discuss him for the first time.
 Who Killed Malcolm X?

Who Killed Malcolm X?

Decades after the assassination of African American leader Malcolm X, an activist embarks on a complex mission seeking truth in the name of justice.
 Whose Streets?

Whose Streets?

An unflinching look at how the police killing of 18-year-old Mike Brown inspired a community to fight back and sparked a global movement.
 Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

A civil rights movement erupts in the Ukraine after a peaceful student protest quickly morphs into a violent revolution.