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Civil Rights |
Genre/Year |
Starring |
Description |
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4 Little Girls |
Documentary (1997) |
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A documentary about the notorious terrorist bombing of an African-American church during the Civil Rights movement. |
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A Raisin in the Sun |
Drama (1961) |
Sidney Poitier |
Classic drama by Lorraine Hansberry, a substantial insurance payment creates opportunities and conflicts in a low income African-American family. |
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Black Like Me |
Drama (1964) |
James Whitmore |
The true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man, in the south in the 1960's. |
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Eyes on the Prize |
Documentary (1987) |
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A comprehensive and engaging multi-part documentary about the American Civil Rights Movement from 1952 to 1965. |
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Ghost of |
Drama (1996) |
Whoopi Goldberg |
The widow of murdered civil rights leader Medger Evers and a district attorney struggle to bring the murderer to justice. |
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Heat Wave |
Drama (1990) |
Cicely Tyson |
TV movie about the Watts riots in |
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Blazing Saddles |
Comedy (1974) |
Cleavon Little |
To ruin a western town, a corrupt political boss appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary. |
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Boycott |
Drama (2001) |
Jeffery Wright |
Black Americans boycott the public buses in |
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Of Civil Wrongs & Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story |
Documentary (2000) |
Fred Korematsu |
A national civil rights hero, who in 1942 at the age of 23, refused to go to the is governments incarceration camp for Japanese-Americans. His case went all the way to the Supreme Court. |
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Conrack |
Drama (1974) |
Jon Voight |
In 1969, a white man starts a job teaching at a small poor all black school located on |
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Gandhi |
Bio/Drama (1982) |
Ben Kingsley |
Biography of Mahatma Gandhi, the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of non-violent protest. He was an inspiration to Martin Luther King. |
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King: Miniseries |
Bio/Drama (1978) |
Paul Winfield |
The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister up to his assassination in Memphis in 1968. |
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American Experience: Freedom Riders |
Drama (2010) |
Raymond Arsenault |
This is the story of more than four hundred Americans who participated in a bold and dangerous experiment designed to awaken the conscience of a complacent nation. These self-proclaimed, 'Freedom Riders' challenged the mores of a racially segregated society by performing a disarmingly simple act. |
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Brother Outsiders: The Life of Bayard Rustin |
Documentary (2003) |
Bayard Rustin |
Documentary on Bayard Rustin, best-remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on |
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Freedom Song |
Drama (2000) |
Danny Glover |
A father, a son and a movement that would change |
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King: A Film Record: |
Documentary (1970) |
Paul Newman |
A biography of Martin Luther Kung through newsstand footage and recordings, narrated by celebrities. |
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Drama (1942) |
Paul Robeson |
Paul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage about the bill of rights being under attack during the 1930s |
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Malcolm X |
Drama (1992) |
Denzel Washington |
The biopic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader. |
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Drama (1998) |
Gene Hackman |
Two FBI agents with wildly different styles arrive in |
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Murder in |
Drama (1990) |
Blair Underwood |
TV movie that dramatizes the last few weeks of three young civil rights activists and the events leading up to their murder 1964. |
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Ruby Bridges |
Drama (1998) |
Chaz Monet |
The true story of Ruby Bridges, an African-American girl who, in 1960 at age 6, helped to integrate the all-white schools of |
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman |
Drama (1974) |
Cicely Tyson |
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. |
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The Color Purple |
Drama (1985) |
Danny Glover |
The life and trials of a young African American woman. Based on the acclaimed novel by Alice Walker. Produced by Oprah Winfrey. |
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The Good Fight: James Farmer Remembers |
Documentary (2009) |
James Farmer |
When he rolled into the Jim Crow South on a Greyhound bus - a black man sitting in the whites-only front seat - James Farmer was scared. Courage is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear, said the founder of the Freedom Rides and pioneer of the earliest sit-ins. |
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The Jackie Robinson Story |
Biography (1950) |
Jackie Robinson |
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player who traces his career in the Negro leagues and the major leagues. |
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The Long Walk Home |
Drama (1990) |
Sissy Spacek |
Two women, black and white, in 1955 |
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The |
Bio/Drama (2002) |
Angela Bassett |
The story of the civil rights heroine whose refusal to obey racial bus segregation was just one of her acts in her fight for justice. |
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To Kill a Mockingbird |
Drama (1962) |
Gregory Peck |
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice. |
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With All Deliberate Speed |
Documentary (2004) |
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Documentary filmmaker Peter Gilbert unearths the legacy of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education. |
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Black History |
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A Great Day in |
Documentary (1995) |
Dizzy Gillespie |
In 1958, Art Kane coordinated a group photograph of all the top black jazz musicians. This wonderful documentary tells the story of how it all came together and what happened. |
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A Soldier's Story |
Drama (1984) |
Howard E. Rollins, Jr. |
An African-American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II. |
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Akeelah and the Bee |
Drama (2006) |
Angela Basset |
A young girl from |
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Ali |
Bio/Drama (2001) |
Will Smith |
A biography of sports legend, Muhammad Ali, from his early days to his days of triumph in the ring. |
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Amistad |
Drama (1997) |
Djimon Hounsou |
About a 1839 mutiny aboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the northeastern coast of |
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Do the Right Thing |
Drama (1989) |
Danny Aiello |
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of |
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Get on the Bus |
Drama (1996) |
Ossie Davis |
Get on the Bus follows several Black men on a cross country bus trip to the Million Man March. |
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Glory |
Drama (1989) |
Matthew Broderick |
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting the prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates |
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
Drama (1967) |
Spencer Tracy |
A white couple attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home her fiancé who happens to be black. |
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Jasper, TX |
Drama (2003) |
Louis Gossett, Jr. |
In 1998, three white men in the small town of Jasper, Texas, chained a black man to the back of their pickup truck and dragged him to his death. |
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Hairspray |
Comedy (1988) |
Sonny Bono Divine |
A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 |
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Scottsboro: An American Tragedy |
Documentary (2000) |
Francis McDormand |
A look at the infamous "Scottsboro Boys" case that occurred in |
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In the Heat of the Night |
Crime/Drama (1967) |
Sidney Poitier |
An African-American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town. |
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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge |
Drama (1999) |
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This biography of Dorothy Dandridge follows her career through early days on the club circuit with her sister to her turn in movies, including becoming the first black actress to win a Best Actress Nomination in 1954 for Carmen Jones. |
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Men of Honor |
Drama/Bio (2000) |
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The story of Carl Brashear, the first African American, then also the first amputee, US Navy Diver and the man who trained him. |
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Pride |
Drama/Crime (2007) |
Terrence Howard |
The determined Jim Ellis starts a swim team for troubled teens at the Philadelphia Department of Recreation. |
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Remember the Titans |
Bio/Drama (2007) |
Denzel Washington |
The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit. |
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Roots |
Drama (1977) |
LeVar |
A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation. |
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Rosewood |
Drama/Action (1997) |
Jon Voight |
A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African American community. |
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Something the Lord Made |
Bio/Drama (2004) |
Alan Rickman |
A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas. |
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Sounder |
Drama (1972) |
Cicely Tyson |
The story of a boy, his dog, his family and black sharecroppers in |
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The Color Purple |
Drama (1982) |
Danny Glover |
The life and trials of a young African American woman. |
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The Great Debaters |
Bio/Drama (2007) |
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A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at |
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The Great White Hope |
Comedy (1996) |
Samual |
When the champ's promoter, Rev. Sultan, decides something new is needed to boost the marketability of the boxing matches, he searches and finds the only man to ever beat the champ. |
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The |
Drama (1995) |
Laurence Fishburne |
The true story of how a group of African American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Drama (2005) |
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A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston. |
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When We Were Kings |
Documentary (1996) |
Muhammad Ali |
A documentary of the 1974 heavyweight championship bout in |
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White Dog |
Drama (1992) |
Kristy McNichol |
A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to kill black people. |
