The Execution of Wanda Jean (2002), Hidden Figures (2016), Good Hair (2009), The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980), Custody (2016), Southside With You (2016), Stranger Inside (2001), Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story (1999) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best African-american Woman movies.
Storyline: "The Execution of Wanda Jean" chronicles the life-and-death battle of Wanda Jean Allen. By telling one woman's story, the film becomes an unforgettable exploration into one of America's most controversial moral and political dilemmas: the death penalty. "The Execution of Wanda Jean" is an unflinching investigation of the role that poverty, mental health, race, and sexuality play within the criminal justice system.
Plot Keywords: prisoner, african-american woman, death row inmate, lawyer, lesbian, disturbing, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Based on the unbelievably true life stories of three of these women, known as "human computers", we follow these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history's greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Gobels Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.
Plot Keywords: african-american woman, engineer, mathematician, astronaut, soldier, confident, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chris Rock, a man with two daughters, asks about good hair, as defined by Black Americans, mostly Black women. He visits Bronner Brothers' annual hair convention in Atlanta. He tells us about sodium hydroxide, a toxin used to relax hair. He looks at weaves, and he travels to India where tonsure ceremonies produce much of the hair sold in America. A weave is expensive: he asks who makes the money. We visit salons and barbershops, central to the Black community. Rock asks men if they can touch their mates' hair - no, it's decoration. Various talking heads (many of them women with good hair) comment. It's about self image. Maya Angelou and Tracie Thoms provide perspective.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: daughter, celebrity, african-american woman, al sharpton, engaging, hilarious, profound ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Documentary about women working in factories during WWII and resultant loss of jobs after the war. Five women tell their stories. Fascinating clips of racist, sexist propaganda of the era.
Plot Keywords: elderly woman, retiree, welder, african-american woman, union organizer, employee, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The lives of three women are unexpectedly changed when they cross paths at a New York Family Court.
Plot Keywords: judge, latina, mother, lawyer, woman, american, african-american woman ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chronicles the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago's South Side.
Plot Keywords: couple, law student, president, adviser, first lady, man, woman ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An aging former child star tries to capture the wealth that has always eluded him by latching on to a lucky man while both have their eye on the same girl of their dreams.
Plot Keywords: mother, daughter, prisoner, african-american woman, gang leader, gritty, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: African-American Marine Corporal Lindsay Scott (Richard Yearwood) is charged with raping another Marine's wife, a white woman, near the Quantico military base in Virginia. Civil rights activist Lori Jackson (Lynn Whitfield), who has no formal legal training, takes on the case. After Scott is convicted -- despite a lack of evidence -- Jackson refuses to give up, instead using the power of the media to fight the considerable forces of the military justice system and seek freedom for Scott.
Plot Keywords: marine, civil rights activist, accuser, prisoner, african-american woman, rousing, melodramatic ...
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