Raoul Peck

At the Berlin Conference of 1885, Europe divided up the African continent. The Congo became the personal property of King Leopold II of Belgium. On June 30, 1960, a young self-taught nationalist, Patrice Lumumba, became, at age 36, the first head of government of the new independent state. He would last two months in office. (Zeitgeist Films)

Who said that the economy serves mankind? What is this world where one third of the population, in the rich countries, or more precisely the wealthiest two percent in these countries, control everything? A world where the economy is law, where this law of the strongest is imposed on the rest of humanity? Why do we accept this cynical and immoral state of being? What happened to Solidarity? And to the militants? These are the questions PROFIT AND NOTHING BUT! asks. (icarusfilms.com)

Set against the backdrop of the genocide of Rwanda's Tutsi people by the Hutu nationalists, explores the delicate relationship between two Hutu brothers whose lives are forever changed by the actions of their countrymen. (amazon)

In 1977, five students are accepted at the ENA - France's most prestigious administration school - and swear themselves to improve the political system. After completing their degrees, they must notice, that their ideals are not compatible to the real world of politics.

A look at the final moments of a ruler in Haiti as a violent revolution erupts around him. (imdb)

A young girl witness the brutality of Papa Doc's regime in Haiti.

Documentary about African political leader Patrice Lumumba, who was Prime Minister of Zaire (now Congo) when he was assassinated in 1961. (imdb)

Haitian born filmmaker Raoul Peck takes us on a 2-year journey inside the challenging, contradictory and colossal rebuilding efforts in post-earthquake Haiti.

A poet from Haiti flees to America after being imprisoned in his native country. Recovering from the experience, he begins to examine his past. (TCM)

Director Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished - a radical narration about race in America, using the writer's original words. He draws upon James Baldwin's notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr to explore and bring a fresh and radical perspective to the current racial narrative in America. (Magnolia Pictures)

26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist's son, who investigated 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. (cineuropa.org)

The path to the new world, an unsettling and intricate story of genocides. Conquest, slavery and the fabrication of "Whiteness". (imdb)

A Black family in North Carolina has been harassed for decades by land developers attempting to take their waterfront property.