In a fortress on a hill in Haiti a democratically elected president prepares himself for a state ceremony. On the day of the festivities the president finds his country in turmoil. The whole nation is in the grips of a riot that has broken out overnight. But nothing should stop the president’s ceremony.

Murder in Pacot

2014

French

6.4

Raoul Peck Director

Thibault Vinçon as Alex Ayo

Ayo as La femme

Zinedine Soualem as Leonetti

Alex Descas as L'homme

In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when they are forced to rent out their villa to a foreign aid worker and his enterprising local girlfriend.

The Young Karl Marx

2017

French

6.6

♡ 23

63%

industrial revolution

Raoul Peck Director

John F. Kennedy as Himself

Nikita Khrushchev as Himself

Nelson Mandela as Himself

Stephen Hogan as Thomas Naylor

26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.

Silver Dollar Road

2023

English

6.6

♡ 1

82%

77%

Action

Documentary

Raoul Peck Director

Billy Reels as Self - Gertrude's Son

Julus McCabe as Self - Reels Family Friend

Yvonne McCabe as Self - Reels Family Friend

Leland Pinder as Self - WCTI Reporter

The story of the Reels family who are valiantly attempting to protect the land their family bought one generation after slavery. This documentary, based on the 2019 ProPublica article, highlights the covert ways the legal system has been exploited to keep Black land ownership fragile and the racial wealth gap growing.

I Am Not Your Negro

2016

English

7.9

♡ 69

99%

Raoul Peck Director

Michelle Obama as Herself

Bob Dylan as Himself

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Himself

Samuel L. Jackson as Narration

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

2024

French

♡ 2

97%

Raoul Peck Director

Keith Stanfield as Ernest Cole

Ernest Cole as Self

Leslie Matlaisane as Self

Jürgen Schadeberg as Self

More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these forever lost, especially the thousands of pictures he shot in the U.S. Told through Cole’s own writings, the stories of those closest to him, and the lens of his uncompromising work, the film is a reintroduction of a pivotal Black artist to a new generation and will unravel the mystery of his missing negatives.

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Sometimes in April

Moloch Tropical

Murder in Pacot

The Young Karl Marx

Silver Dollar Road

I Am Not Your Negro

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found