Free Multicultural Studies Documentaries

This hour-long audio documentary from American RadioWorks is an excellent introduction to great African American speakers of the last century.

A racially charged trial and a heartrending love story converge in this documentary about Mildred and Richard Loving, set during the Civil Rights era.

Broken Rainbow is a 1985 documentary film about the government-enforced relocation of thousands of Navajo Native Americans from their ancestral homes in Arizona. The Navajo were relocated to aid mining speculation in a process that began in the 1970s and continues to this day.

TV series made by Dr. Maya Angelou for KQED in 1968 called Blacks, Blues, Black!, which examines the influence of African American culture on modern American society.

Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.

During the World War II years, a series of groundbreaking radio programs tried to mend the deep racial and ethnic divisions that threatened America....

The aboriginal culture of Australia, includes a large number of tribes inhabiting the oceanic continent before the arrival of the white man. But all that rich culture is doomed to survive in stocks in which its people are destined to extinction.

The social perspective of Mozambique makes us think that his medium-term upturn is quite difficult. The education, economy and health care of this country show us one of the poorest regions of Africa.

In the summer of 1964, about a thousand young Americans, black and white, came together in Mississippi for a peaceful assault on racism....

Herdsmen of the Sun is a 1989 documentary film by Werner Herzog. The film explores the social rituals and cultural celebrations of the Saharan nomadic Wodaabe tribe.