Police Brutality Movies

Beneath the fury of Ferguson unrest, an affable professor dedicates his life to actionable, peaceful change while attempting the grueling triple...

An investigation on the death of a 18-year-old boy and its cover-up by the police.

Experienced detective August is given the heavy responsibility of solving a series of murders of young girls. He is convinced that Frank, a...

This film from Bill Moyers is the first documentary to focus exclusively on people formerly detained in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island...

Discover how the advent of the automobile brought new mobility and freedom for African Americans but also exposed them to discrimination and deadly...

It became world news in October 2019 when economic reforms in Ecuador led to gas prices suddenly shooting up by 123 percent. People from urban and...

In 1978 the police attacked demonstrators at the Sydney (Australia) Mardi Gras celebrations. This film details the communities' responses.

This raw, gutsy portrait of New York's Chinatown captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community. We see a Chinatown rarely...

Documentary about Joel da Conceição Castro, a ten years old boy killed by a police bullet in 2010.

An examination of the connection between relentless government intervention since colonisation to the trauma and disadvantage experiences by...

A young Colombian woman confronts her father and best friend, who resist her taking to the streets to protest for fear of the repression and violence...

On May 25th, 2020, Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer, murdered George Floyd, a black man, by driving his knee into George's neck for 8...

Animated short. Set in a contemporary society of mice and rats, Hubert, a young observing rat, recites slam poetry full of hope within his head as he...

A documentary about a case of police brutality in the 80's NYC, the killing of graffiti artist Michael Stewart

Santos Vive is a documentary about the community of Little Mexico in Dallas as well as the murder of Santos Rodriguez at the hands of a police...

The documentary tells the story of Júlio César, a young Afro-Brazilian who was executed by the Police in the 1980s in Porto Alegre. The...

Filmed in response to the LAPD’s shooting of Eulia Love in 1979, Gidget Meets Hondo opens with stills taken by Bernard Nicolas of a...

February 1980, young Abdelkader Lareiche was shot in the head by a building guard in a housing estate in Vitry. In a context marked by several racist...

On April 26, 2014 Douglas Pereira, a dancer, was killed by the police. The film documents the protests following his death.

Hundreds of thousands − perhaps even millions − of protestors have taken to the streets of Hong Kong since early June. Sparked initially...