MPT Specials
MLK SPEAKS: A Conversation with Martin Luther King, Jr.
Presenting David Susskind's historic 1963 interview of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with extensive discussion on Dr. King's words and the state of race relations today.
Standing Against Racism: Fostering Unity Through Dialogue
PBS and MPT race programming - for streaming anytime
MPT Presents
Pip and Zastrow: An American Friendship
The true story of two men who cross racial boundaries and form a life-long friendship that takes extraordinary turns.
MPT Digital Studios
Voices of Baltimore: Black, White & Gray
A compilation of short narratives that shed light on the events that occurred in the city of Baltimore on April 27, 2015.
MPT Presents
By Any Means Necessary: Stories of Survival
Baltimore’s squeegeeing movement as the latest in an entrepreneurial history of survival.
MPT Presents
Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story
Howard Thurman helped ignite social change through non-violence and spirituality.
American Experience
The Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till's murder and the acquittal of his killers mobilized the Civil Rights Movement.
American Experience
Freedom Riders
The story behind civil rights activists who challenged segregation in the American South.
Direct Connection
A Conversation: Race and Policing
Police accountability and how to turn protest into policy.
John Lewis - Get in the Way
John Lewis - Get in the Way
Follow the journey of civil rights hero, congressman and human rights champion John Lewis.
POV
And She Could Be Next (Ep. 1)
A defiant movement led by women of color fights to transform politics from the ground up.
POV
And She Could Be Next (Ep. 2)
A defiant movement led by women of color fights to transform politics from the ground up.
Independent Lens
The First Rainbow Coalition
Across lines of race and ethnicity, alliances formed among Chicago activists in the '60s.
POV
Every Mother's Son
Three mothers find themselves united to transform their grief into profound social change.
America ReFramed
Struggle & Hope
The stories, and fight, of the residents of the last remaining all-Black towns in the U.S.
Independent Lens
Always in Season
A haunting exploration of lynching and racial violence in America.
FRONTLINE
Policing the Police
How do you transform a troubled police department?
PBS NewsHour
Race Matters: America in Crisis
Outrage is pouring onto the streets over police brutality and the death of George Floyd.
Black America Since MLK
And Still I Rise
Black America Since MLK looks at the last five decades of African American history.
The Talk: Race in America
The Talk - Race in America
The conversation parents of color have with their children about interactions with police.
Independent Lens
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
Were the 739 deaths from Chicago's 1995 heatwave a one-time tragedy or appalling trend?
Independent Lens
Charm City
Meet the people working to stem the tide of violence in Baltimore.
American Masters
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Dr. Maya Angelou was a singer, dancer, activist, poet and writer who inspired generations.
Independent Lens
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution sheds light on the Black Panther Party — and all its reviled, adored, misunderstood, and mythologized history.
American Masters
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Discover the man behind the legend.
Independent Lens
Tell Them We Are Rising
The rich but undertold history of America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
RECONSTRUCTION
America After the Civil War
The aftermath of the Civil War was bewildering, exhilarating . . . and terrifying.
The African Americans
Many Rivers to Cross
Explore the global experiences that created the African-American people.
Great Performances
Twilight: Los Angeles
An encore of Anna Deavere Smith’s theatrical work about the 1992 L.A. riots.
PBS NewsHour WEEKEND SPECIAL
America in Black and Blue 2020
A report on race and policing in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer.
MPT Presents
Voices of Baltimore: Life Under Segregation
These stories speak volumes on how our nation can become a more tolerant society.
FROM KEN BURNS
The Central Park Five
Five teenagers from Harlem are wrongfully convicted of a brutal crime in 1989
From Ken Burns
East Lake Meadows
The story of a public housing community raises critical questions about race and poverty.
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business
Boss: The Black Experience in Business
Learn about the untold story of African American entrepreneurship.
Independent Lens
True Conviction
Exonerated ex-prisoners start a detective agency to help free other wrongly incarcerated people, as they rebuild their own lives.
POV
The Barber of Birmingham
Civil rights veteran James Armstrong experiences the fulfillment of an unimaginable dream.
POV
Out in the Night
A moving account of four women sensationalized by the media as a "Gang of Killer Lesbians"
Finding Your Roots
John Lewis and Cory Booker
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. examines the pasts of politicians, John Lewis and Cory Booker.
POV
The Return
An examination of an unprecedented reform to California's "Three Strikes" law.
Independent Lens
Peace Officer
Meet Dub Lawrence, a crusading former sheriff whose investigations highlight increasingly militarized state of American police. Dub established Utah’s first SWAT team, only to see
FRONTLINE
Growing Up Poor in America
The experience of childhood poverty against the backdrop of a pandemic and a national reckoning with racism.
POV SHorts
The Changing Same
In the Florida Panhandle lies the provincial town of Marianna, Florida, where one native resident hopes to lift the veil of racial terror caused by the town’s buried history.