We're listening and we're learning. We're looking for tools to help us to understand. These documentaries address civil rights, history and racism in the US and the UK. These are our starting point.
Over the last week, nightly violent protests have erupted on the streets of American cities in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
We need to try to understand, even when – or especially when – it feels uncomfortable.
Documentaries can be tools to understand, to learn, to empathise. By no means an exhaustive list, the below documentaries address civil rights, history and racism in the US and the UK in the recent and not-so-recent history. These films are our starting point.
On Friday 12 June, we will also be showing Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, another very relevant doc on this subject.