Slavery Movies

Main hero is a singing boat refugee – orange boy Maroc. He dreams about freedom. Lemon girl Lisa collects singing seashells and dreams about love. Lis...

Documentary about abolitionist John Brown

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

Returning to the island that her father left 50 years earlier, the filmmaker goes back in time to retrace the history of her name.

In the eighteenth century, the family of BBC World News anchor and correspondent, Laura Trevelyan, were absentee slave owners on the island of Grenada...

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

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...

The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.

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) being taken...

One of the most famous Bible stories of all time retold against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition, the conquest of the New World, the birth of t...

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...

Juca, a black kid, sees his friends and his mother being hit by his stepfather, without being able to do anything against it, but when he knows that h...

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

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

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 b...

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

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