BLACK LIVES MATTER

FILM AND TV SERIES

● Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap (Ezra Klein) To help understand the concept of ‘white privilege’.

● Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Jenner Furst) A true crime series - the story of a teenager wrongfully charged with theft and jailed at Riker’s Island prison for over 1,000 days.

● When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) A true series - based on the Central Park jogger case of five teenage boys wrongfully convicted of a crime that they did not commit.

● 13th (Ava DuVernay) A documentary analysing the criminalisation of African Americans and the U.S prison boom.

● Selma (Ava DuVernay) A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s campaign to secure equal voting rights.

● Who Killed Malcom X? (Rachel Dretzin) An insight into Malcom X, his beliefs and his mysterious death.

● American Son (Kenny Leon) The fight of a couple to find their missing Black teenage son.

● Black Power Mixtape Original footage shot by Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States.

● Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) The story of a warden facing the psychological effects of ordering death row executions.

● (Justin Simien) The story of black students facing discrimination at a predominantly white Ivy League college. ● Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) A biographical film based on the events leading up to the death of Oscar Grant, killed in 2009 at the Fruitvale district station in Oakland.

● I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) A indictment of America’s failure to rectify its shameful history of racial inequality.

● If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) A young pregnant woman sets out to prove her lover is innocent of a crime he didn't commit.

● () A world-renowned civil rights defence attorney works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.

● King In The Wilderness (Peter Kunhardt) An insight into the final years of Martin Luther King Jr’s life.

● See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) Brooklyn teenagers build a time machine to save their brother from being wrongfully killed by a police officer.

● The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Stanley Nelson) A documentary telling the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party.

● The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) The story of a woman who faces pressure to find her voice and stand up for what’s right after witnessing the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend.

● BlacKkKlansman () Available on , Ron Stallworth, an African-American detective, embarks on a mission to infiltrate his town's chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist hate group.