Police Brutality Movies

A Southern Indiana man endures a fatal night of torture after being arrested for a routine traffic stop.

Finding himself trapped in a cabin in the woods with his white friends, Jay makes a call to a mysterious organization.

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

A documentary filmed from dusk to dawn during the 2020 George Floyd protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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

An ex-graffer, now security guard warns his brother about the dangers of joining riots against police brutality. Although each brother walks a...

As the first part of our investigation, the CORONA.FILM prologue will delve into the science behind the pandemic. Starting at the very beginning, we...

On May 25th, 2020, Derek Chauvin, a European-American Minneapolis police officer, murdered George Floyd, a black man, by driving his knee into...

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

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

The world watched in horror as the NYPD was put on trial for the shooting of Sean Bell and Amadou Diallo. The chants of "no justice," "no peace" were...

Three demonstrators from October 17, 1961, and a journalist recount the peaceful success of the demonstration and its brutal repression in the...

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

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

Racism. Toxic stress. Birth outcomes. How are these things intertwined? The short film, Toxic: A Black Woman's Story, seeks to explore that question...

As student protests sweep through a deeply divided Belgrade, a police officer recognizes the young man he is beating during a violent clash. The...

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

1995. On the outskirts of Abidjan, the largest city in Ivory Coast, a policeman is murdered. Shot outside his vehicle, while his fiancée sits...

Behind the gas masks of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, the often very young activists are just as diverse as the youths of the rest of the...

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