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Starr Carter navigates the perilous waters between her poor, black neighborhood and her prestigious, mainly white private school. This all changes when she finds herself in the middle of racial activism after her best friend is shot by police officers, and she's forced to make a decision. Allow the media to skewer her friend to protect the status quo, or stand up and tell the truth in memory of Khalil?
2) Crash
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A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles. Crash takes a provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America.
5) Cane River
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Written, produced, and directed by Emmy Award-winning documentarian, Horace B. Jenkins, and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew, CANE RIVER is a racially-charged love story in Natchitoches Parish, a “free community of color” in Louisiana. A budding, forbidden romance lays bare the tensions between two black communities, both descended from slaves but of disparate opportunity—the light-skinned, property-owning Creoles and the...
6) 42
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
7) Woodlawn
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In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African American superstar, Tony Nathan.
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[2022]
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English
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Follows the McLusky family, power brokers who deal with systematic racism, corruption, and inequality in Kingstown, Michigan.
From Academy Award nominee Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of Yellowstone, and Hugh Dillon, it follows the McLusky family-power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their...
10) Misbehaviour
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[2020]
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English
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The sensational true story of the Women's Liberation Movement's disruption of the 1970 Miss World pageant, an event watched by more than 100 million viewers, and which made headlines around the world. Not only that, when order was restored, the first woman of color was crowned Miss World. In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head.
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[2023]
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English
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Make yourself right at home in THE NEIGHBORHOOD. After season four brought a lot of changes to the Johnson and Butler families, season five continues to share the comedic situations in which both families consistently find themselves. Between Gemma's pregnancy, Tina's new business, Calvin's mother's arrival, and Marty's engagement, there's never a dull day in THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
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Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
14) A time to kill
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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A small-town lawyer is hired to defend an African American man who is accused of killing the white men who raped his young daughter.
15) Green book
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on The Green Book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the...
16) Monster's ball
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
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2004.
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Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg is Odessa Cotter, a quietly dignified woman, who works as a housekepper for Miriam Thompson (Academy Award winner Sissy Spacek). When Odessa honors the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott by walking an exhausting nine miles to and from work, Miriam offers her a ride. Defying both Miriam's racist husband (Dwight Schultz) and the powerful White Citizen's Council, Miriam and Odessa put their lives in danger for...
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[2023]
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English
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Mayor of Kingstown follows the McLusky family - power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systematic racism, corruption and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither. --container
19) No Way to Live
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In this dark Postmodern-Southern-Gothic-Noir, an interracial teenage couple in the 1950's American South rob and steal to escape their oppressive town, but when violence erupts they are forced to confront their own dark secrets.. "Nick Chakwin and David Guglielmo’s NO WAY TO LIVE presents a tightly wound thriller that delivers a solid noir experience with plenty of twists and turns to keep audiences on their toes." - Adam Patterson, Film Pulse....
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