Race in US History

A filmmaker’s complex relationship with his Filipino heritage is explored through the story of tribal natives brought to the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair to be “living exhibits.”

A struggling young actress with a six-year-old daughter sets up housekeeping with a black widow and her light-skinned eight-year-old daughter who rejects her mother by trying to pass for white.

African American soldiers in WWII combated racism both in the segregated military and on the home front, and were among the first liberators to enter concentration camps.

This film explores the long struggle for black civil rights, reminding us that the pace of progress is often accompanied by conflict and compromise.