Civil Rights Movies, Movies about Civil Rights

Here we've displayed a list of the best Civil Rights films : Do the Right Thing(1989), I Am Not Your Negro(2016), District 9(2009), Hidden Figures(2016), Mississippi Burning(1988), The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show(2020), Before Stonewall(1984), Selma(2014), Malcolm X(1972), Amazing Grace(2006), Far From Heaven(2002), The Express(2008) ... ...

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Do the Right Thing

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

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I Am Not Your Negro

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

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District 9

Violence ensues after an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth finds a kindred spirit in a government agent exposed to their biotechnology.

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Hidden Figures

The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

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Mississippi Burning

Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.

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The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show

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.

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Before Stonewall

The history of the Gay and Lesbian community before the Stonewall riots began the major gay rights movement.

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Selma

A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.

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Malcolm X

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.

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Amazing Grace

The idealist William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd) maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.

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Far From Heaven

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.

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The Express

A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.

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The Long Walk Home

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.

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The Secret Life of Bees

In 1964, a teenage girl in search of the truth about her mother runs away to a small town in South Carolina and finds a family of independent women who can connect her to her past.

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Oranges and Sunshine

Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.

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Birthright: A War Story

Women are being jailed, physically violated and at risk of dying as a radical movement tightens its grip across America.

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Black Like Me

Based on the true story of a white reporter who, at the height of the civil-rights movement, temporarily darkened his skin to experience the realities of a black man's life in the segregated South.

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Harriet

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.

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Gone Are the Days

An idealistic young man returns to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. He brings his fiancée Lutiebelle, but hopes to convince the plantation owner that she is really his cousin ... See full summary »

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Native Land

Paul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage about the bill of rights being under attack during the 1930s by union busting corporations, their spies and contractors. ... See full summary »

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The Fight

The film tells the story of the Podolsk cadets' heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets from the Podolsk infantry and artillery schools were sent to the Ilyinsky line of defense... See full summary »

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Ted 2

Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.

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Blaze

A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.

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Taxi to the Dark Side

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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

The tribute features newsreel clips of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., from 1955 to 1968, including his "I Have a Dream" speech.

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Lee Daniels' The Butler

A White House butler (Forest Whitaker) has a front-row seat to history through three decades and seven presidential administrations, including those of Eisenhower (Robin Williams), Kennedy (James Marsden) and Nixon (John Cusack).

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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

A 110-year-old former Louisiana slave (Cicely Tyson) reminisces about her life and society from the Civil War to germinating civil rights.

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