Research Guides: Black Lives Matter: Streaming Media

Films Databases

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Films On Demand [FOD] is an online collection of high quality, educational videos made accessible to the faculty, staff and students at Madison College.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Offers streaming films ranging from documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics and blockbuster movies. *Note: we are currently experiencing issues with video display in VDI. Please access videos outside the virtual desktop.

Where available, a link is provided to stream the film in one of our databases.

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
In The Heat of the Night (1967)
Do The Right Thing (1989)
Malcom X (1992)
Dead Presidents (1995)
Fruitvale Station (2013)
Let The Fire Burn (2013)
Moonlight (2016)
Get Out (2017)
The Hate U Give (2018)
Just Mercy (2019)
When They See Us (2019)

Netflix is making the full length documentary 13th available for free to stream via YouTube. This 2016 film is described by Neflix as "Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America."

Streaming Videos from Madison College Libraries

Note: If off-campus, you will be asked to log in with your student or staff username and password to access these subscription-based resources via our database, Kanopy.

View titles on the Social and Systemic Injustice from our streaming database, Kanopy.