13th (2016)

RBG (2018)

Summary: The exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon.

Release Date: July 26, 2018

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Directors: Julie Cohen

, Betsy West

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: PG

Production: CNN Films, Storyville Films, Better Than Fiction Productions, Participant

Distributor: Magnolia Pictures, HBO Max, Ro*co Films International

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 14,051,361

International: $ 423,931

MLK/FBI (2020)

Summary: Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Release Date: January 15, 2021

Genre: Documentary

Director: Sam Pollard

Writers: Benjamin Hedin

, Laura Tomaselli

, David Garrow

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: Field of Vision (II), Play/Action Pictures, Tradecraft Films

Distributor: IFC Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 45,200

International: $ 46,633

4 Little Girls (1997)

Summary: A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist1963 bombing by the Ku Klux Klan of the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement, which killed four young girls.

Release Date: July 09, 1997

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Spike Lee

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, Home Box Office (HBO)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 130,146

Production: Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Channel 4 Television Corporation, Ecoutez Voir, Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep), TP, Yeah Inc., Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

Classified X (2007)

Summary: A history of the racially stereotyped portrayal of African Americans in cinema.

Release Date: March 12, 2007

Genre: Documentary

Director: Mark Daniels

Writer: Melvin Van Peebles

Runtime: 0 h 53 min

MPAA: PG-13

Countries: United Kingdom, France, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 65

The Negro Soldier (1944)

Summary: Documentary focusing on the contributions to the American war effort of African-American soldiers.

Genres: Drama, Documentary, Short

Director: Stuart Heisler

Writer: Carlton Moss

Runtime: 0 h 43 min

Production: U.S. War Department

Distributor: War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry, Republic Pictures Home Video, Spotlite Video, Reel Media International, Sprocket Flicks

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 78,254

The Loving Story (2011)

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

Release Date: April 15, 2011

Genres: Drama, Documentary, History

Director: Nancy Buirski

Writers: Nancy Buirski

, Susie Ruth Powell

Runtime: 1 h 17 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Augusta Films, Home Box Office (HBO), The National Endowment for the Humanities

Distributor: Icarus Films, HBO Documentary Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 4,218

8: The Mormon Proposition (2010)

Summary: A scorching indictment of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion & passage of California's Proposition 8 and the Mormon religion's secretive, decades-long campaign against LGBT human rights.

Release Date: January 24, 2010

Genre: Documentary

Directors: Reed Cowan

, Steven Greenstreet

Writer: Reed Cowan

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

MPAA: R

Production: David v. Goliath Films

Distributor: Red Flag Releasing (RFR), Warner Bros., Wolfe Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,500,000

Domestic: $ 100,280

I Am Not Your Negro (2016)

Summary: Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

Release Date: February 17, 2017

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Raoul Peck

Writers: James Baldwin

, Raoul Peck

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Velvet Film, Velvet Films, Artémis Productions, ITVS International, Independent Lens, Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS), Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Shelter Prod

Distributor: Amazon Studios, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, United States, Belgium, Switzerland

Language: English

Domestic: $ 7,123,919

International: $ 1,221,379

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)

Summary: The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

Release Date: March 08, 2018

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Director: Alexandra Dean

Writer: Alexandra Dean

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

Production: Reframed Pictures

Distributor: Kino Lorber, Submarine Deluxe, Zeitgeist Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,500,000

Domestic: $ 820,300

International: $ 272,641

The People Speak (2009)

Summary: A look at America's struggles with war, class, race and women's rights. based on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."

Release Date: December 13, 2009

Genres: Documentary, History

Directors: Anthony Arnove

, Chris Moore

, Howard Zinn

Writers: Anthony Arnove

, Howard Zinn

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

Production: Voices of a People's History of the US, Act 4 Entertainment, Artfire Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Requiem for the American Dream (2015)

Summary: Renowned academic and author Noam Chomsky elucidates 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power that have led to unprecedented inequality and the hollowing out of the American middle class.

Release Date: October 20, 2016

Genres: Documentary, Biography, News

Directors: Peter D. Hutchison

, Kelly Nyks

, Jared P. Scott

Writers: Peter D. Hutchison

, Kelly Nyks

, Jared P. Scott

Runtime: 1 h 13 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: PF Pictures, Naked City Films

Distributor: The Film Collaborative, Gravitas Ventures, Netflix

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 130,152

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011)

Summary: 2011 "The Pruitt-Igoe Myth" explores the rise & fall of titular housing complex in St. Louis, examining racism & gov. Policies through interviews with former residents & historical footage. Ft racism, urban poverty & inequality in...

Release Date: September 18, 2012

Genre: Documentary

Director: Chad Freidrichs

Writers: Chad Freidrichs

, Jaime Freidrichs

Runtime: 1 h 19 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Unicorn Stencil

Distributor: First Run Features

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 44,883

Anne Frank Remembered (1995)

Summary: Tells the story of the Frank family and paints a portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.

Release Date: June 08, 1995

Genres: Documentary, Biography, War

Director: Jon Blair

Writers: Jon Blair

, Anne Frank

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: PG

Production: The Jon Blair Film Company, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Disney Channel

Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,310,200

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (2011)

Summary: A look at the life and work of the influential fashion editor of Harpers Bazaar, Diana Vreeland.

Release Date: September 21, 2012

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Directors: Lisa Immordino Vreeland

, Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt

, Frédéric Tcheng

Writers: Lisa Immordino Vreeland

, Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt

, Frédéric Tcheng

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Gloss Studio

Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,017,579

International: $ 703,893