Police Brutality Movies

Celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was somehow free of politics before Colin Kaepernick and...

On The Job is about the ambitions and passions of four men trying to make a living, for themselves and their families. It shows the parallels between...

Set in motion by a tragic police-involved shooting, two communities of color navigate fraught perceptions of injustice, inequality, and...

On August 1, 1942, a 22-year-old Mexican American man was stabbed to death at a party. To white Los Angelenos, the murder was just more proof that...

A detective tries to remain loyal to his partner, and his best friend - a mobster.

Sandra Bland was a bright, energetic activist whose life was cut short when a traffic stop resulted in a mysterious jail cell death just three days...

After police kill her fiancé on their wedding day, a heartbroken mother of two fights through the devastating aftershock of a shocking...

A young police woman is faced with the difficulties between her responsibilities at work and her personal responsibilities.

Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain, March 3, 1976. After several months of protests demanding decent working conditions, a general strike is called....

On October 17, 1961, in response to the curfew imposed on Muslim Algerians by Paris police prefect Maurice Papon, the FLN Federation of France...

On October 17 and 18, 1961, during a non-violent demonstration against the imposed curfew, dozens of Algerians were murdered in Paris by police...

Philadelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by its tough-talking mayor, Frank Rizzo. But a maverick...

A reflection on the 2011 killing of Mark Duggan, a young, black, British man, at the hands of London's Metropolitan Police. Duggan was pulled over...

After Dontre Hamilton, a black, unarmed man diagnosed with schizophrenia, was shot 14 times and killed by police in Milwaukee, his family embarks on...

Short animation film by Ricardo Jabardo on police violence.

Film about the police brutality in dealing with homosexual public demonstration of affection. A gay couple is tortured and harassed because they are...

An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers...

Convinced of her son's innocence after he's charged with murder, a woman fights for his freedom against a corrupt and unjust system.

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances...

The most crude and atrocious institutional violence of the Spanish State hides behind a true dark figure, an abyss into which this documentary peers...