The BBC Arena documentary strand has broadcast an account of the 1960s civil-rights movement derived from the writing and memoirs of James Baldwin (If Beale Street Could Talk etc).
The film presents the struggle through the killings of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000kbk6/arena-i-am-not-your-negro
Amazing.
BBC4TVs Storyville documentary strand has broadcast a film history of the Black Panther movement. The Panthers were the most theoretically sophisticated branch of the civil rights and counter-cultural movements in the US. Their structural understanding of the intersectionality of discrimination was fifty years ahead of its time…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b071gr5h/storyville-the-black-panthers
There’s also a longer PBS documentary about the Panthers.
The US criminal justice system is systemically biased against African-Americans. This amplifies another systemic bias in the public education programmes across the US.
The BBC showed a two-part documentary about the really impressive efforts made by the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000k492/storyville-college-behind-bars-episode-1