Les errances de Fritz the Cat, étudiant contestataire à la recherche du plaisir sexuel. Un personnage d'une B.D. underground, chef de file de la contre-culture américaine des années soixante
Blessés au cours d'un hold-up, deux truands, Ray Biddle et son frère John, sont soignés d'urgence par le Dr Brooks, un interne noir. Lorsque John meurt, Ray, homme aux idées racistes, accuse Brooks de l'avoir tué. Seule une autopsie, qui nécessite l'accord de la famille de John, pourrait innocenter Brooks. Celui-ci décide d'en parler à Eddie, l'ex-femme du défunt.
L'histoire vraie, en 1923, d'un village Noir de Floride qui fut entièrement brûlé. Quelques survivants ne doivent leur vie qu'au courage et à la compassion d'une poignée d'hommes extraordinaires.
Des images inédites offrent une nouvelle perspective sur le procès Rodney King et son verdict à l'origine des émeutes de Los Angeles en 1992.
Un vieil homme malade, Saket Ram, se souvient d'évènements survenus lors de l'obtention de l'indépendance et de la partition de l'Inde. Il menait alors une vie heureuse avec sa femme Aparna . Bien que hindou, il avait pour meilleur ami un musulman, Amjad. Mais lors d'émeutes inter-communautaires, Aparna est violée et tuée. Ram, fou de douleur, se laisse convaincre par un activiste hindou que c'est le Mahatma Gandhi qui est responsable de ces violences...
A Hindu man and a Muslim woman fall in love in a small village and move to Mumbai, where they have two children. However, growing religious tensions and erupting riots threaten to tear the family apart.
The Black Audio Film Collective’s acclaimed essay film, 'Handsworth Songs', examines the 1985 race riots in Handsworth and London. Interweaving archival photographs, newsreel clips, and home movie footage, the film is both an exploration of documentary aesthetics and a broad meditation social and cultural oppression through Britain’s intertwined narratives of racism and economic decline.
The story of the aftermath of the 2001 Bradford riots told from the perspective of an Asian familty
Set in the maligned western suburbs of Sydney, Lebanese-Australian John gets out of gaol to discover his younger brother Charlie is caught up with drugs, hookers and crime. Charlie oscillates between the streets and school. Daily clashes between Scott and Charlie's gang escalate. This feud spills into the streets in a territory and identity battle that turns bloody.
Amongst the 2011 London riots, a former boxer needs must choose between his past or a new future.
In the Moss Side, Manchester "race riots" of 1981 a struggling punk band are tempted by a sinister entrepreneur to perform at a major gig in support of British extreme Right political organizations.
Don Letts examines the history of this notorious subculture in a fascinating documentary, which features interviews with members of different skinhead scenes through the decades. Beginning in the late 1960s, Don fondly recalls a time of multiracial harmony as youngsters bonded over a love of ska, reggae and smart clothes as white working-class kids were attracted to Jamaican culture and adopted its music and fashions. But when far-right politics targeted skinheads in the 1970s and 1980s, an ugly intolerance emerged, and Don reveals how the once-harmonious subgroup has since struggled to shake this stigma.
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 cleared of beating Rodney King.
On Sunday December 4, 2005, 3 Cronulla lifesavers were coming off duty when they passed a group of 8 Lebanese young men. They stared at each other, a heated verbal exchange turned quickly into a violent brawl, resulting in 3 lifesavers being beaten up. This event was to spark 10 days of violent mob attacks and retaliations, the likes of which Australia had never witnessed. This is the story of the dramatic events covering the lead up to and the 10 days between 4th and 13th December 2005 known as the Cronulla Riots.
A historical and present day look at the Wilmington Massacre of 1898 and how the descendants of the victims of the event are asking for legal action in regards to compensation.