racism
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    Movies

    Betrayed (1988)

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

  • In the Heat of the Night picture
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    In the Heat of the Night (1967)

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

  • To Kill a Mockingbird picture
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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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    Movies

    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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    Movies

    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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    Movies

    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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    Movies

    Monster's Ball (2001)

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

  • Nothing But a Man picture
    Movies

    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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    Movies

    Change of Habit (1969)

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

  • The Great White Hope picture
    Movies

    The Great White Hope (1970)

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

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    Zoot Suit

    A Chicano gang leader (Daniel Valdez) and his alter ego (Edward James Olmos) recall the case of gang...

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    Talk Radio (1988)

    Oliver Stone's dark film shows the self-destruction of a talk radio host whose broadcasts are marked...

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    Island in the Sun (1957)

    A planter (James Mason) runs for office against a labor leader (Harry Belafonte) in the British West...

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    Movies

    Places in the Heart (1984)

    A widowed mother (Sally Field) fights for her cotton farm with a laborer and a blind boarder (John...

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    Movies

    Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)

    Based on the novel by Alan Paton. A white South African and a black pastor are bonded by the murder...

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    Jindabyne (2007)

    Fishing buddies (Gabriel Byrne) plumb dangerous waters when they decide to continue with their trip...

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    Movies

    Kings Go Forth (1958)

    An Army lieutenant (Frank Sinatra) and sergeant (Tony Curtis) become rivals for the daughter...

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    Movies

    Ship of Fools (1965)

    Passengers (Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Oskar Werner) on an ocean liner headed from the Americas...

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    Movies

    Imitation of Life (1959)

    An aspiring actress and her black housekeeper retain a solid friendship despite problems with their...

  • The Chase picture
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    The Chase (1966)

    An escaped convict (Robert Redford) heads for his wife (Jane Fonda) and corrupt small-town Texans,...