Police Brutality Movies

This feature documentary takes us to the heart of the Jane-Finch "Corridor" in the early 1980s. Covering six square blocks in Toronto's North York,...

Hundreds of thousands − perhaps even millions − of protestors have taken to the streets of Hong Kong since early June. Sparked initially...

On April 26, 2014 Douglas Pereira, a dancer, was killed by the police. The film documents the protests following his death.

A documentary about the clashes between squatters and the police in Berlin in early 1981. Despite the absence of commentary, this is an openly...

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

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...

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

Jeremy Rollins, a shy and underdeveloped young man with an uncanny condition, learns how to cope with life in a small corrupt town.

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

Karen, an entitled white woman who's not fond of black faces, embarks on a journey inside an alternate TV universe where she experiences a taste of...

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

This raw, gutsy portrait of New York's Chinatown captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community. We see a Chinatown rarely...

Amid record police shootings in Utah, an investigation into the use of deadly force in the state with Frontline's local journalism partner The Salt...

Pedro Che is a carefree taxi driver who advises his friends Sebastián and Artemio, politically committed law students, to do like him.

Experienced detective August is given the heavy responsibility of solving a series of murders of young girls. He is convinced that Frank, a...

This documentary tells the stories and struggle of families affected by police violence. Their brother, their father, their loved one died after an...

A young woman finds herself in a strange inescapable room as she seeks refuge when chaos erupts in the streets.

George Floyd’s killing triggered mass demonstrations nationwide calling for racial justice and police accountability in the United States. In...

Animated short. Set in a contemporary society of mice and rats, Hubert, a young observing rat, recites slam poetry full of hope within his head as he...

A young man's livelihood is put to the test when he gets profiled and stopped by the police on his way home from practice.