The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), Neshoba: The Price of Freedom (2008), District 9 (2009), Do the Right Thing (1989), I Am Not Your Negro (2016), Mississippi Burning (1988), Hidden Figures (2016), Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes (2018) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Civil Rights movies.
Storyline: Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens, a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father T-Ray, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters, Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping.
Plot Keywords: teen girl, father, caregiver, sister, beekeeper, teen boy, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dramatizes the events in 1955-1956 in Montgomery, Alabama, when blacks boycotted public transport because they were forced to sit at the back. Odessa works as a maid for the Thompsons, and as well as she is treated, she feels it is her duty to walk to work, even if it means she is exhausted, and gets to work late.—Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
Plot Keywords: nanny, wealthy woman, african-american, boss, husband, daughter, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cathy is the perfect 50s housewife, living the perfect 50s life: healthy kids, successful husband, social prominence. Then one night she stumbles in on her husband Frank, kissing another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the friendship of their African-American gardener, Raymond - a socially taboo relationship that leads to the further disintegration of life as she knew it. Despite Cathy and Frank's struggle to keep their marriage afloat, the reality of his homosexuality and her feelings for Raymond open a painful, if more honest, chapter in their lives.
Plot Keywords: wife, gay/lesbian, gardener, psychiatrist, maid, dark, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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).
Plot Keywords: butler, wife, cook, richard nixon, nancy reagan, calm, solemn ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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.
Plot Keywords: social worker, victim, orphan, caregiver, bleak, disheartening, nottingham, england ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Women are being jailed, physically violated and at risk of dying as a radical movement tightens its grip across America.
Plot Keywords: woman, doctor, police detective, politician, priest, shocking, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Championing nonviolent protest during the civil rights movement in the American South, Martin Luther King Jr. (Paul Winfield), a Baptist minister, becomes one of the most powerful and inspirational leaders during the turbulent era of the 1950s and '60s. However, being at the top only makes King more of a target, as he is always under threats from law enforcement officials, politicians and bigots. Never backing down from his lot, King undauntedly fights for equality, despite the personal risk.
Plot Keywords: activist, minister, african-american, racist, sheriff, wife, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This documentary explores the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his impact on civil rights through present day.
Plot Keywords: civil rights activist, congressman, al sharpton, historian, athlete, gripping, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This action film, directed by the Hughes brothers, depicts a heist of old bills, retired from circulation and destined by the government to be "money to burn." However, more broadly, it addresses the issues of Black Americans' involvement in the Vietnam War and their subsequent disillusionment with progress in social issues and civil rights back home in the United States, during the 1960's.
Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, drug addict, pyromaniac, preacher, criminal, wife, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences of passing as a black man. John Horton takes treatments to darken his skin and leaves his home in Texas to travel throughout the South. At one stop, Horton encounters a black shoeshine man, Burt Wilson, who befriends him and shows him how to "act right" to fit more easily into the African American culture. Through Wilson, Horton learns the art of shining shoes. Most of his encounters with whites are quite degrading and disturb him. As a hitchhiker, John meets several white men who refer to black men and women in disparaging ways that anger him. Throughout the movie, John is harassed and persecuted by whites without reason. In one of his many stops throughout the South, John finds himself on a park bench sitting by a white woman. A white man walks by and says, "You'd better find another place to sit." Although he had a college degree, menial jobs were all that he could find. John meets Frank Newcomb whose son Tom is arrested for civil-rights demonstrations. John tells Tom about his "passing for black" in the South, and Tom becomes enraged. Tom feels that John could have served the plight of the black man in the South better as a white man. Frank asks John if people would believe the story. Tom says, "I don't know, but I'll tell them."—Broncine G. Carter
Plot Keywords: journalist, african-american, impostor, black man, white supremacist, powerful, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the 1970s, racial tensions erupt in a small Georgia town when a black lieutenant who died a hero in Vietnam is refused burial in the cemetery. Maj. Kendall Laird (John Lithgow) travels to Georgia with the body. He attempts to comfort the soldier's grieving parents, Luther (Morgan Freeman) and Ada (CCH Pounder), and convince the white townspeople the deceased officer deserves their respect. However, Laird is disturbed when he learns the true story behind the officer's death.
Plot Keywords: army officer, mother, father, neighbor, racist, major, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two pioneering African American sisters, Bessie (Ruby Dee), 101 years old, and Sadie (Diahann Carroll), 103 years old, recount the ups and downs of their lives to New York Times journalist Amy Hill Hearth (Amy Madigan) in this true story. Spanning from their childhood in North Carolina at the end of the 19th century to the twilight of their lives in New York more than a century later, "Having Our Say" follows the sisters as they find success and happiness despite overwhelming odds.
Plot Keywords: elderly woman, journalist, mother, father, teacher, sister, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, Harriet tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.—Focus Features
Plot Keywords: freedom fighter, slave, slave trader, civil rights activist, civil rights leader, racist, cheery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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 to secure the family inheritance. Aiding the comic complications are his family members Missy and Gitlow and the plantation owner's endearing but ineffectual son Charlie.—Jonathan Ruskin <JonRuskin@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: reverend, fiancée, son, plantation owner, old man, engaging, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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. In dramatizations, we see a Michigan farmer beaten for speaking up at a meeting, a union man murdered in an apartment in Cleveland, two sharecroppers near Fort Smith Arkansas shot by men deputized by the local sheriff, a spy stealing the names of union members, and a dead Chicago union man eulogized. In archival footage we witness police and goons beating lawfully assembled union organizers, and we see men at work and union families at play. The narration celebrates patriotism and democracy.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: farmer, union organizer, klansman, sharecropper, grocer, brutal, inspiring ...
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