Neshoba: The Price of Freedom (2008), The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show (2020), The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (2004), The Best of Enemies (2019), I Am MLK Jr. (2018), Harriet (2019), The Fight (2020), Murder in Mississippi (1990) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Civil Rights Activist movies.
Storyline: In 1964, three civil rights activists go missing in Mississippi. The bodies of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner are found months later, and the three Klansman accused of murdering them are put on trial. All three are found not guilty, including Edgar Ray Killen who openly flaunts his involvement in the killings for years after the trial. Interviews with local community members and the victim's families highlight the ongoing effort to bring Killen to trial a second time.
Plot Keywords: murderer, klansman, civil rights activist, emotional, solemn, gripping, mississippi ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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.
Plot Keywords: martin luther king jr., civil rights activist, entertainer, host, celebrity, inspiring, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This documentary presents a sobering reminder of the racial tensions that gripped America not so long ago. In Mississippi during the '50s, a black teenager named Emmett Louis Till, who is from Chicago and visiting his great-uncle, whistles at a white woman in public. Not too long afterward, he is kidnapped and murdered. The filmmakers revisit the public outrage that follows, revealing Till's family as being particularly brave for standing up to white racism when it was clearly unsafe to do so.
Plot Keywords: mother, civil rights activist, family member, sheriff, teenager, al sharpton, raw ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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.
Plot Keywords: klansman, civil rights activist, mother, child, politician, council member, tense ...
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: 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: 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, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold back the German advance until reinforcements arrived. Hopelessly outnumbered, young men in their teens laid down their lives in a battle lasting almost two weeks to obstruct the far superior German forces advancing towards Moscow. This film is not only about war. It is also about love, true camaraderie, and the path from boyhood to manhood. Around 3,500 cadets and their commanding officers were sent to hold up the last line of defense outside Moscow. Most of them remained there for eternity.
Plot Keywords: lawyer, prosecutor, civil rights activist, powerful, profound, rousing, courtroom ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1964, New York City activist Mickey Schwerner (Tom Hulce) takes a field position in rural Mississippi on behalf of the civil rights group known as the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). There Schwerner; his wife, Rita (Jennifer Grey) ; and fellow activists Andrew Goodman (Josh Charles) and James Chaney (Blair Underwood) endure harassment by local thugs and police, as well as violent hate-mongers the Ku Klux Klan, in their quest to help African-Americans secure their basic human rights.
Plot Keywords: civil rights activist, jew, african-american, wife, colleague, racist, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Gospel Hill is about haunted men, the former Sheriff of the southern town dealing with past sins, and the former civil rights worker withdrawn since the martyrdom of his father thirty years before. Their final confrontation comes when a corporation descends on the town, echoing a struggle thirty years old.—Jeff Stacy
Plot Keywords: civil rights activist, sheriff, racist, developer, doctor, lawyer, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this poignant true story set in Montgomery, Alabama, a Klansman's grandson must choose which side of history to be on during the Civil Rights Movement. Defying his family and white Southern norms, he fought against social injustice, repression and violence to change the world around him. SON OF THE SOUTH is from executive producer Spike Lee and based on Bob Zellner's autobiography, "The Wrong Side of Murder Creek."—Vertical Entertainment
Plot Keywords: klansman, civil rights activist, southerner, brooding, emotional, touching, montgomery, ala. ...
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 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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.
Plot Keywords: college student, civil rights activist, musician, collector, blues singer, confident, engaging ...
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