Police Brutality Movies

In 1978 the police attacked demonstrators at the Sydney (Australia) Mardi Gras celebrations. This film details the communities' responses.

The world watched in horror as the NYPD was put on trial for the shooting of Sean Bell and Amadou Diallo. The chants of "no justice," "no peace" were...

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

As two brothers watch a news cast about extra terrestrial beings, the older brother uses the opportunity to make an analogy about their world being...

A troubled corrections officer pays a visit to a man he’s never met to request he cook a last meal for his ex-girlfriend on death row; one that...

Filmmaker Malini Schueller examines police brutality against minorities and the dangers of overmilitarized campuses.

In 2020, five kids were victims of police gunfire. One of them, Blas Correas, was killed. In spite of the attempts to cover it up, institutional...

After her release from involuntary hospitalization, “Annie” grapples with the trauma of her confinement, all while working as a...

The documentary tells the story of Júlio César, a young Afro-Brazilian who was executed by the Police in the 1980s in Porto Alegre. The...

Santos Vive is a documentary about the community of Little Mexico in Dallas as well as the murder of Santos Rodriguez at the hands of a police...

Anthony Baez died during a football game when an officer put him in an illegal chokehold. Amadou Diallo was unarmed when he was shot at 41 times by...

Racism. Toxic stress. Birth outcomes. How are these things intertwined? The short film, Toxic: A Black Woman's Story, seeks to explore that question...

On 19 March 1966, a photo exhibition about the police intervention during the wedding of Beatrix and Claus opened in Amsterdam. After the opening,...

From January 25 to May 27, 2011, the film tracks four months of the Egyptian revolution as seen through the director's eyes. January 25 is the...

Deftly upending the popular assertion that Canadian law enforcement agencies differ from those in the US, this provocative exposé fixes a...

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

From one of the most violent communities in the country comes a documentary directed by parents of murdered children, reformed gang members, kids...

Award winning documentary about the police tactics during the G-8 summit in Genoa in 2002 which lead to the death of one person and left many people...

Police have been killing people in Columbus, Ohio, with near impunity for more than two decades, leaving behind a community bound together by grief...

A group of people on their way to a protest are kidnapped. We follow them in their journey through the darkness, not knowing whether they'll see...