Lynching Movies

Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony by eyewitnesses...

When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill Saunders who arrives to find his father...

Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and...

Chantal Akerman investigates the American Deep South through the story of a lynching and grisly murder of an African-American man that took place in...

AN OUTRAGE is a documentary film about lynching in the American South. Filmed on-location at lynching sites in six states and bolstered by the...

A Black man attends a white friend's Southern plantation wedding, and becomes haunted by its history.

The film expresses the history of oppression, discrimination, violence and hate in America. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best...

Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's...

Former Marine Willie is walking through a rural area... dragging a body.

A vengeful banshee takes vengeance on a small Irish town that lynched her 50 years ago. Her only opposition is a demon hunter and his wild...

In a small rural town hit hard by the Depression, Katie Connors resides in a middle-class home with her bootlegging husband Melvin. When the...

In 1937, after seeing a photo depicting the lynching of a black man in the south, Bronx-born high school teacher Abel Meeropol wrote a poem entitled...

In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a drastic allegation of rape against...

Scars of Jealousy is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Lloyd Hughes and Frank Keenan. It was produced by...

There is a feud of 30 years' standing between the Revelle and Wainwright families, dwelling in the Apache country, despite which Shirley, daughter of...

An intimate insider’s journey to uncover buried truths and explore how the community in Monroe, Georgia has been impacted by the 1946 quadruple...

A western short depicting the execution of a horse thief by a group of enraged cowboys. This film is considered to be lost.