Black [race]
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    I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)

    A veteran (Keenen Ivory Wayans), his idol (Bernie Casey) and other ghetto good guys battle a white...

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    The Hard Ride

    In this drama, a former sergeant accompanies his deceased friend, a black man, home from Vietnam....

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    White Chicks (2004)

    Two male FBI agents (Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans) pose as female socialites to foil a kidnapping...

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    Cooley High (1975)

    Two high-school pals (Glynn Turman, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs) hang out, face a teacher and flee the...

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    The Jerk (1979)

    A simpleton (Steve Martin) leaves his foster family, acquires a girlfriend (Bernadette Peters) and...

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    Black Knight (2001)

    An underachiever (Martin Lawrence) in Los Angeles time-travels to 14th-century England and battles...

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    Talk to Me (2007)

    Fueled by the music and social upheaval of the times, ex-convict Ralph ``Petey'' Greene (Don...

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    Remember the Titans (2000)

    A Virginia high school hires a black football coach (Denzel Washington) after undergoing integration...

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    Set It Off (1996)

    Desperation drives four inner-city women to bank robbery in Los Angeles, then they start mistrusting...

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    To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

    A widowed lawyer (Gregory Peck) with two children (Mary Badham, Philip Alford) defends an innocent...

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    Movies

    A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy (2008)

    A between-the-sheets peek at Black Love and Sexuality.

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    Jungle Fever (1991)

    Trouble follows an architect's (Wesley Snipes) biracial affair with a woman (Annabella Sciorra) in...

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    Shaft (1971)

    A Harlem mob boss (Moses Gunn) hires a private eye (Richard Roundtree) to find his kidnapped...

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    Cadence (1991)

    A misfit soldier (Charlie Sheen) lands in a bully's (Martin Sheen) stockade with five men united by...

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    Malcolm X (1992)

    The civil-rights leader (Denzel Washington) rises from criminal to crusader, undergoing a religious...

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    Rosewood (1997)

    Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in...

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    Nothing But a Man (1964)

    A proud black man (Ivan Dixon) and his bride (Abbey Lincoln) suffer daily indignities in an Alabama...

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    The Color Purple (1985)

    A black Southern woman (Whoopi Goldberg) struggles to find her identity after suffering years of...

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    Red Tail Reborn

    History of the P-51C Mustang nicknamed ``Tuskegee Airman.''

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    Finian's Rainbow (1968)

    An Irishman (Fred Astaire) and his daughter (Petula Clark) steal a leprechaun's (Tommy Steele) pot...

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    Liberty Heights (1999)

    Jewish brothers (Adrien Brody, Ben Foster) come of age in the 1950s and learn of bigotry and racism...

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    The Wiz (1978)

    Dorothy (Diana Ross) eases on down the road to see the Wiz (Richard Pryor) with Tinman, Scarecrow...

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    People

    Edna Mae Harris

    Edna Mae Harris was one of the best actresses of the Black race in the 1930s and 1940s. She starred...

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    Wattstax (2000)

    Filmmaker Mel Stuart chronicles a 1972 concert commemorating the 1965 uprising in the Watts section...

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    Zebrahead (1992)

    A Jewish boy (Michael Rapaport) loves a black girl (N'Bushe Wright) from New York despite critics in...

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    Movies

    The Cool World (1964)

    A young Harlem man rises to power in his street gang after taking inspiration from a Black Muslim...

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    Mapantsula (1989)

    A look at apartheid from a black perspective, a troubled black South African, caught up in his own...

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    The Walking Dead (1995)

    A sergeant (Allen Payne) leads four Marines on their last mission: to evacuate a POW camp in 1972...

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    Movies

    White Man's Burden (1995)

    A black factory owner (Harry Belafonte) spends the weekend with a white ex-employee (John Travolta)...

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    Movies

    Halls of Anger (1970)

    A teacher (Calvin Lockhart) in a middle-class school is bused with white students to a ghetto...

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    Movies

    The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)

    A Southern lawyer uncovers the truth about a slain undertaker.

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    J.D.'s Revenge (1976)

    The spirit of a zoot-suited, razor-wielding 1940s hoodlum possesses a New Orleans law student (Glynn...

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    Mississippi Masala (1992)

    People resent the romance of a black man (Denzel Washington) and an Indian woman (Sarita Choudhury)...

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    Foreign Student (1994)

    A French exchange student (Marco Hofschneider) learns about love, segregation and football at a...

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    Movies

    Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (2000)

    Dwayne and his sister Mai are Vietnamese siblings who were adopted by an African-American couple....

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    Movies

    The Thing With Two Heads (1972)

    A white racist (Ray Milland) wakes up from a head transplant with his head next to another man's...

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    Movies

    Rush Hour 2 (2001)

    Two detectives (Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker) battle a Hong Kong gangster (John Lone) and his henchmen...

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    Movies

    Sprung (1997)

    The story of two pairs of best friends, and their attempts at romance through lying and love.

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    Movies

    The Execution of Wanda Jean (2002)

    Filmmaker Liz Garbus chronicles a woman's final three months on death row.

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    Xica da Silva (1982)

    The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine atributs" in order to get...

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    Conrack (1974)

    ``Prince of Tides'' author Pat Conroy (Jon Voight) teaches poor children on an island off South...

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    Crazy Joe (1974)

    The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey...

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    School Daze (1988)

    Musical numbers underscore Spike Lee's account of tensions erupting among the student body at an...

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    Edge of the City (1956)

    A labor boss (Jack Warden) harasses a longshoreman (Sidney Poitier) and his fugitive white friend...

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    Movies

    Black Like Me (1964)

    A white man (James Whitmore) changes his racial face in the Deep South.

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    Watermelon Man (1970)

    A bigoted insurance salesman (Godfrey Cambridge) wakes up one morning and discovers he's no longer...

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    Pootie Tang (2001)

    Although he speaks an indecipherable language, a superhero (Lance Crouther) protects children from a...

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    The River Niger

    A dying woman (Cicely Tyson), her poet husband (James Earl Jones), their ex-Air Force son (Glynn...

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    Muhammad Ali, the Greatest

    Filmmaker William Klein examines the life and career of boxer Muhammad Ali from 1964 to 1974.

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    Movies

    The Joe Louis Story (1953)

    A sportswriter (Paul Stewart) recalls the boxer's (Coley Wallace) career as world heavyweight...