Slavery Movies

Frans Bromet goes in search of his family history and discovers that Hermanus Bromet was a well-known slave trader in Suriname. Should he feel guilty...

Travel across four continents, through 19 countries, and into dingy Cambodian karaoke bars, Amsterdam’s infamous red-light district, Moldovan...

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney...

A working man's life is changed after he breaks the routine.

On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.

The story of Cecilia is a story of the society that dominated 19th-century Cuba, a society divided between whites, blacks, and those who were mixed,...

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...

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

At a female prison located deep within the deadly South American jungles, a group of woman are forced to mine for valuable emeralds for the local...

In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are...

A story of love, lust, violence and murder on a sadistic southern plantation during the slave era.

The last movie in the Thralls-trilogy.

An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he...

Alternating interview segments, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from Aimé Césaire's play La Tragédie du roi Christophe...

The first screen adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel to star a black man in the title role.

Inspired by true events, a young Frederick Douglass is secretly taught to read and write by his master's wife. Using only the air as their...

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...

A luxurious house stands in a deserted region, contrasting with its surroundings. It is a house of prostitution and its inmates are brought there...