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    Cornbread, Earl & Me

    Friends, relatives and a lawyer (Moses Gunn) question the case of a ghetto basketball star slain by...

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    The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)

    Used-car liquidator Don Ready is hired by a flailing auto dealership to turn their Fourth of July...

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    Ray (2004)

    Blind since childhood, Ray Charles (Jamie Foxx) overcomes poverty, hardship and addiction and...

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    Hart's War (2002)

    A conniving colonel (Bruce Willis) oversees the murder trial of a black airman (Terrence Howard) in...

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    Duel at Diablo

    A scout (James Garner), an ex-sergeant (Sidney Poitier) and a cavalry lieutenant take ammo and...

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    Carbon Copy (1981)

    A white executive (George Segal) with a white wife (Susan Saint James) learns he has an illegitimate...

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    Crash (2005)

    Racial tensions collide in a collection of intertwined stories involving residents (Sandra Bullock,...

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    Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

    A magazine writer (Gregory Peck) poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.

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    Ask the Dust (2006)

    In Depression-era Los Angeles, a fiery Mexican waitress (Salma Hayek) who wants to improve her lot...

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    Undercover Brother (2002)

    A low-rent private detective (Eddie Griffin) poses as a preppy nerd in order to foil a plot by...

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    Basic Training

    First shot as "Up the Pentagon," this comedy is about a sexy worker who shuns the quick-handed...

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    The Chamber (1996)

    Dark secrets drive a lawyer (Chris O'Donnell) to defend his Klansman grandfather (Gene Hackman) on...

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    A Dry White Season (1989)

    A white South African challenges government policies when he accuses a police captain of the murder...

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    Absolute Beginners (1986)

    An adman (David Bowie) corrupts a photographer (Eddie O'Connell) who loves a fashion designer (Patsy...

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    Just Cause (1995)

    A law professor (Sean Connery) tries to prove a death-row inmate did not rape or murder a girl in...

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    Amos and Andrew (1993)

    A car thief (Nicolas Cage) helps inept police (Dabney Coleman) when they overreact to reports of a...

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    Avenging Force (1986)

    After his former commrade is nearly assinated, retired Secret Service agent Matt Hunter returns to...

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    Corrina, Corrina (1994)

    A housekeeper (Whoopi Goldberg) brings joy to a Jewish widower (Ray Liotta) and his young daughter...

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    Far From Heaven (2002)

    Rumors circle around a woman (Julianne Moore) and her gardener (Dennis Haysbert) after her husband...

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    Absolution (1988)

    Two boys (Dominic Guard, Dai Bradley) try to drive a strict priest (Richard Burton) mad with their...

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    The Defiant Ones (1958)

    Two men (Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier) of different races, who hate each other, escape from a chain...

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    Finishing the Game (2007)

    Numerous actors (Roger Fan, Roger Fan, Sung Kang) audition for the chance to be Bruce Lee's stand-in...

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    In My Country (2005)

    An American reporter (Samuel L. Jackson) and an Afrikaans poet (Juliette Binoche) meet and fall in...

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    City of Hope (1991)

    A third-generation Italian-American struggles to break free from his father's grasp. Meanwhile, the...

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    This is England (2007)

    A fatherless boy (Thomas Turgoose) in 1980s Britain joins a gang of skinheads and falls under the...

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    Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

    Billie Holiday (Diana Ross) goes from Harlem brothel maid to heroin-addicted singing star, losing...

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    Captain Boycott

    An Irish tenant farmer (Stewart Granger) leads others against a land agent (Cecil Parker)...

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    Business As Usual (1988)

    The British Business as Usual stars Glenda Jackson and John Thaw as the husband-and-wife managers of...

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    Do the Right Thing (1989)

    Spike Lee's account of erupting racial tensions on a summer afternoon in a predominantly black...

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    Betrayed (1988)

    An FBI agent (Debra Winger) falls in love with a white supremacist (Tom Berenger) whose group she...

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    In the Heat of the Night (1967)

    A black Philadelphia detective (Sidney Poitier) helps a white Mississippi sheriff (Rod Steiger)...

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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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    Giant (1956)

    A cattleman (Rock Hudson) and his spoiled wife (Elizabeth Taylor) watch an upstart oilman (James...

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    Heart of Dixie (1989)

    A sorority member (Ally Sheedy) uses the college newspaper to crusade for civil rights in 1957...

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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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    Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

    A nursing-home resident (Jessica Tandy) regales a visitor (Kathy Bates) with tales of the close...

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    CSA: Confederate States of America (2005)

    The South wins the Civil War in 1864, changing the course of U.S. history for the next 140 years.

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    Towelhead (2008)

    A Lebanese-American teen (Summer Bishil) on the cusp of sexual awakening goes to live with her...

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    Shaft (2000)

    A detective (Samuel L. Jackson) and a narcotics cop (Vanessa L. Williams) track a sociopath out to...

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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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    Black Caesar (1973)

    Evidence of governmental corruption pits a Harlem crime lord against the evil policeman who wounded...

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    American History X (1998)

    A brutal skinhead (Edward Norton) emerges from prison reformed and tries to show his neo-Nazi...

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    Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005)

    The comic, writer and actress applies her controversial brand of humor to race, sex and more in her...

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    Monster's Ball (2001)

    A racist prison-guard (Billy Bob Thornton) has an intense affair with a black woman (Halle Berry)...

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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 Fugitive Kind (1960)

    A guitar-playing petty criminal (Marlon Brando) wanders into a Mississippi town and attracts two...

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    The Greatest Thing in Life

    In the sentimental world of filmmaker D.W. Griffith, the greatest thing in life is love. Obtaining...

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    Change of Habit (1969)

    A singing doctor (Elvis Presley) falls for a nun (Mary Tyler Moore) at the free clinic he runs in a...

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    The Great White Hope (1970)

    A heavyweight champion (James Earl Jones) is punished for his white mistress (Jane Alexander) circa...

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    Wanted

    Wanted appeared in the TV show Racism: Points of View.