Bernard LaFayette Jr.

En archives et témoignages exceptionnels, une immersion au jour le jour dans une spectaculaire bataille du Mouvement des droits civiques aux États-Unis, au printemps 1961 : les "voyages de la liberté" pour déségréguer dans le Sud les grandes lignes de bus.

Dorothy Foreman Cotton was a bold and highly effective civil rights leader, who educated thousands about their citizenship rights and inspired generations of activists with her powerful freedom songs. The only woman on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s executive staff, Dorothy was a charismatic, courageous and consistently overlooked key player in the Civil Rights Movement, whose freedom schools, freedom songs and messages of empowerment are profoundly needed today.

Trauma experienced by a seven-year-old sets him on a course to become a civil rights legend and change the course of a nation.

The timely biopic focuses on John Lewis’ longstanding prominence as a civil rights champion and his continuing crusade for racial and social equality. The documentary illuminates the 80-year-old Congressman’s life as it chronicles the moments on the extraordinary journey that have shaped his place in history and make him such a galvanizing figure today as protests circle the globe. Lewis’ schedule has increased ten-fold as he has become the go-to figure for TV news shows, podcasts and newspapers and magazines from the Washington Post to Vanity Fair, commenting on and leading the way forward through today’s worldwide protests and demonstrations.

A chronicle of the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum.

Depuis sa naissance en 1865, au lendemain de la guerre civile américaine, l'histoire du Ku Klux Klan est indissociable de celle des Etats-Unis. Les débats sur l'esclavage, le populisme des années folles, la lutte pour les droits civiques dans les années soixante, la montée de l'extrême droite au début du XXIe siècle, le Klan semble avoir toujours incarné la face sombre de la nation, avec ses zones d'ombre et ses angles morts.