Racism Movies, Movies about Racism

Here we've displayed a list of the best Racism films : Hoop Dreams(1994), The Life of Reilly(2006), Green Book(2018), To Kill a Mockingbird(1962), Gran Torino(2008), Nothing But a Man(1964), A Raisin in the Sun(1961), Planet of the Apes(1968), A Patch of Blue(1965), Do the Right Thing(1989), A Prophet(2009), In the Heat of the Night(1967) ... ...

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Hoop Dreams

A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.

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The Life of Reilly

If, in 1940, you had a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a racist mother, and were the only gay kid on the block, what do you think the odds would be that you'd end up a Tony ... See full summary »

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Green Book

A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.

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Gran Torino

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.

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Nothing But a Man

A black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.

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A Raisin in the Sun

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

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Planet of the Apes

An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.

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A Patch of Blue

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.

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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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A Prophet

A young Algerian man is sent to a French prison.

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In the Heat of the Night

A black police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.

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Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

Featuring never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where he orchestrated a mass suicide via tainted punch.

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4 Little Girls

A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.

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Mugabe and the White African

An intimate and moving account of one family's extraordinary courage in the face of overwhelming injustice and brutality.

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.

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Glory

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.

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Remember the Titans

The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.

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The Color Purple

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

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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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Bad Day at Black Rock

A one-armed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary.

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Malcolm X

Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam.

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Mumbai Meri Jaan

A moving portrayal of the 2006 train bombings in Mumbai, this Indian drama follows the interconnected stories of several strangers.

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O Brother, Where Art Thou?

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

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Crash

Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.

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Fried Green Tomatoes

A housewife who is unhappy with her life befriends an old lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know.

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12

Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.

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This Is England

A young boy becomes friends with a gang of skinheads. Friends soon become like family, and relationships will be pushed to the very limit.

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The Defiant Ones

Two escaped convicts chained together, white and black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.

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Just Mercy

World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.

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