Check out these slavery movies on Amazon Prime Video in your home education or to improve your personal knowledge of this integral part of history.
Slavery Movies on Amazon Prime
All the titles listed are currently on Amazon Prime Video, but that is subject to change without notice. Most of these titles are slavery movies on Amazon Prime – free.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Morgan Freeman (Actor)
Slavery and the Making of America
A documentary of the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies through the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction, this series examines the integral role slavery played in shaping the new country and challenges the long-held notion that it was exclusively a Southern enterprise.
Remarkable stories of individual slaves offer fresh perspectives on the slave experience.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Loki Mulholland, Luvaghn Brown, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (Actors)
The Uncomfortable Truth
A comprehensive and insightful exploration of the origins and history of racism in America told through a very personal and honest story.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Beau Bridges, Carl Lumbly, Kathleen York (Actors)
Nightjohn
In this uncompromising story of persecution and perseverance in the Antebellum South, former runaway slave Nightjohn brings hope and the chance of freedom to slaves on cruel Clel Waller's tobacco plantation.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- John C. Bailey, Yasiin Bey - Narrator (as Mos Def), Henian Boone (Actors)
Prince Among Slaves
The true story of Prince Abdul-Rahman, stolen from West Africa and sold into slavery on a plantation in Mississippi in 1788.
His battle for freedom over forty years attracted the support of men such as President John Quincy Adams and he eventually became the most famous African in America. Abdul-Rahman survived the harsh ordeals of slavery through his love of family and his deep faith as a Muslim.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Actor)
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
This six-hour PBS series explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed – forging their own history, culture, and society against unimaginable odds.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Cuba Gooding Jr., Sharon Leal, David Rasche (Actors)
Freedom
Experience the world that inspired the great hymn “Amazing Grace”! Samuel Woodward and his family escape from slavery in 1856 and travel north along the Underground Railroad to freedom.
A century earlier, his own great-grandfather journeys toward slavery in America aboard John Newton's ship. What happened on that voyage that changed the captain so profoundly?
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Oliver Platt (Actor)
American Experience: The Abolitionists
American Experience tells the story of how Douglass, Garrison, and their abolitionist allies Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, and Angelina Grimke turned a despised fringe movement against chattel slavery into a force that literally changed the nation.
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You Belong to Me: Sex, Race, and Murder in the South
In 1952 Ruby McCollum, a black woman killed her white doctor in Live Oak, Fla after years of sexual abuse. The remarkable secrets and terrible truths revealed during her trial and incarceration haunted jurors and prosecutors for decades.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- --- (Actor)
Slaves
Modern slavery has many faces, more than 45 million of them. Work slaves, sex slaves, domestic slaves, and child soldiers. This film traces their stories. And seeks out the perpetrators: Unscrupulous profiteers, for whom people are mere commodities.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Zo Williams, Ursula Rucker, Garth Trinidad (Actors)
Escape from Candyland
The film explores the ‘African – American' narrative through the thoughts of scholars, celebrities, and everyday people, from Philadelphia to Los Angeles. Exploring questions that face the ‘African-American' in the 21st century.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Susmita Mukherjee, Tillotama Shome, Priyank Bose (Actors)
Sold
SOLD is an adaption of the award-winning novel by Patricia McCormick about a young girl from Nepal who is trafficked to a brothel in India where she plots her escape. SOLD is a global entry point into the issue of modern-day slavery.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Cicely Tyson, Eric Brown, Richard Dysart (Actors)
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Karen Abercrombie, Lindsey Aeriel Grimble, Joel Ashur (Actors)
Carry Me Home: A Remember America Film
In the cold winter of 1860, a young mother trapped in slavery seizes the opportunity to escape with her family when she encounters Harriet Tubman (Karen Abercrombie, War Room).
Harriet leads the young family through a number of trials on the Underground Railroad, causing them all to question whether or not freedom is worth the price they must pay to obtain it.
To continue learning, check out the Harriet Movie Study.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Dick Cavett (Actors)
I Am Not Your Negro
Director Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. It is a journey into black history that connects the Civil Rights movement to #BlackLivesMatter. It questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Lindsey Bryce, Brion Marquis Watson, Edward Watts (Actors)
Free
Inspired by true events, a young Frederick Douglass is secretly taught to read and write by his master's wife. Using only the air as their blackboard, this random act of kindness provided an education that paved the way from slavery to freedom.
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If you enjoyed these movies about slavery on Amazon Prime, here are MORE MOVIES ABOUT BLACK HISTORY AND THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE:
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PLACES YOU CAN VISIT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT SLAVERY AND BLACK HISTORY
- Booker T. Washington National Monument (Washington‘s birthplace)
- Cliveden, the 18th-century home of the Chew family, immerses visitors in this part of America’s past in the Philadelphia area of Germantown, Pennsylvania.
- Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Civil Rights Trail which includes 100 locations across 14 states
- Freedom Park in Williamsburg, VA, which preserves one of the first free black settlements in America
BOOKS ABOUT SLAVERY AND BLACK HISTORY
- Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
- Celia, A Slave
by Melton A Mclaurin
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by David W. Blight
- The Slave Ship: A Human History
by Marcus Rediker
- American Slavery, American Freedom
by Edmund S. Morgan
- Empire of Cotton: A Global History
by Sven Beckert
- Africa: A Biography of the Continent
by John Reader
- Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation
by Eric Foner
- The Price for Their Pound of Flesh
by Daina Ramey Berry
- My Bondage and My Freedom
by Frederick Douglass
- Black Reconstruction in America
by W. E. B. Du Bois
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