Here we've displayed a list of the best Civil Rights Movement films : The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show(2020), Soundtrack for a Revolution(2009), Once Upon A Time... When We Were Colored(1995), The Best of Enemies(2019), Harriet(2019), Seberg(2019), Gospel Hill(2008), Two Trains Runnin'(2016) ... ...
Documentary
USA
2020
75 Minutes
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For one week in February 1968, Johnny Carson gave up his chair to Harry Belafonte, the first time an African-American had hosted a late night TV show for a whole week.
Drama, Music, Documentary, History
USA|France|UK
2009
82 Minutes
John Legend Dan Sturman Wyclef Jean Joss Stone Richie Havens Anthony Hamilton Angie Stone
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Tells the story of the American civil rights movement through its powerful music - the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, and in jail cells as they fought for ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1995
112 Minutes
Al Freeman Jr. Paula Kelly Phylicia Rashad Polly Bergen Richard Roundtree Charles Earl Taylor Jr. Ray J Damon Hines Leon Salli Richardson-Whitfield Anna Maria Horsford
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A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.
Drama, History
USA
2019
133 Minutes
Taraji P. Henson Sam Rockwell Babou Ceesay Nick Searcy Wes Bentley Anne Heche Bruce McGill John Gallagher Jr. Nicholas Logan Gilbert Glenn Brown Caitlin Mehner
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Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration.
Action, Biography, Drama, History
China|USA
2019
125 Minutes
Cynthia Erivo Janelle MonĂ¡e Leslie Odom Jr. Joe Alwyn Clarke Peters Jennifer Nettles Vanessa Bell Calloway Omar J. Dorsey Henry Hunter Hall Tim Guinee Nick Basta
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The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Biography, Drama, History
UK|USA
2019
103 Minutes
Kristen Stewart Jack O'Connell Anthony Mackie Margaret Qualley Zazie Beetz Yvan Attal Vince Vaughn Stephen Root Colm Meaney
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Inspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.
Drama
USA
2008
99 Minutes
Chloe Bailey Adam Baldwin Angela Bassett Corinne Biazzo Chuck Bibby Phillip Bloch Tom Bower Jason Downs Chris Ellis Giancarlo Esposito Anthony Garner
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A former Sheriff of the southern town dealing with past sins, and a former civil rights worker, withdrawn since the martyrdom of his brother thirty years before, confront a threat to their town.
Documentary
2016
80 Minutes
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In June of 1964, two groups of young men travel to Mississippi. Though neither group was aware of the other, each had come on the same errand: to find an old blues singer and coax him out of retirement.