Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America (2016), Across the Line (2015), Marshall (2017), I Am Not Your Negro (2016), Blindspotting (2018), Mudbound (2017), Manderlay (2005), Marshall (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Racial Issues movies.
Storyline: Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up King of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, pimp, prostitute, crooked cop, rival, uplifting, wild ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A random act of kindness sparks a forbidden love affair between a white girl and an Indian man during the Apartheid system in South Africa.
Plot Keywords: woman, indian, man, love interest, family, rival, police officers ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widower father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and he sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly however, Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress. The plantation is to be sold to pay off her father's debts and as the daughter of a slave, Amantha is also to be sold as property. She is bought by a Louisiana plantation owner, Hamish Bond and over time she grows to love him until she learns he was a slave-trader. She tries again to become part of white society but realizes that her future lies elsewhere.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: plantation owner, slave trader, daughter, passionate, fiery, kentucky, united states ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A feature documentary on African American ballerina Misty Copeland that examines her prodigious rise, her potentially career ending injury alongside themes of race and body image in the elite ballet world.
Plot Keywords: professional, performer, ballerina, fascinating, inspiring, united states, biography ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As Lt. Jed Sayre struggles to prevent pre-Civil War tensions and a racist commanding officer from triggering war between the U.S. Cavalry and Navajo Indians, he finds his efforts are being undermined by the machinations of Confederate sympathizers.—Michelle Sturges
Plot Keywords: union boss, native american, prospector, lieutenant, confederate soldier, corporal, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A black female TV producer struggles in Hollywood.
Plot Keywords: television producer, screenwriter, actor, actress, girlfriend, lighthearted, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Christmas, 1983. A New York postal clerk, a Buffalo Soldier in Italy in World War II, shoots a stranger. In his apartment, police find a valuable Italian marble head, missing since the war. Flashbacks tell the story of four Black soldiers who cross Tuscany's Serchio River, dodging German and friendly fire. With a shell-shocked boy in tow, they reach the village of Colognora. Orders via radio tell them to capture a German soldier for questioning about a counteroffensive. In the village, a beautiful woman, partisans that include a traitor and a local legend, the boy, and the story of a recent massacre connect to the postal worker's anguish forty years later. And the miracle?
Plot Keywords: reporter, detective, veteran, soldier, german soldier, commander, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Black Cloud, is an inspirational story about a young Navajo, Native American boxer, who overcomes personal challenges as he comes to terms with his heritage, while fighting his way for a spot on the US Olympic boxing team.
Plot Keywords: boxer, scout, girlfriend, cowboy, navajo, sheriff, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An interracial family struggles to adjust when they move from New York City to a small, predominately white town in Washington State.
Plot Keywords: black student, mother, father, professor, unrestrained, amusing, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young Chicano gang member in Los Angeles comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out.
Plot Keywords: gang member, girlfriend, police sergeant, rival, young man, emotional, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Joan Britton, improbably gorgeous frontier horse dealer, and the much less scrupulous Stephen Cook are friendly competitors supplying horses to the Union Army in Wyoming Territory during the Civil War. Southern general Stand Watie, a Cherokee, is rumored to be in the area to stir up the Sioux against the Union, when Cook picks this worst possible moment to steal a herd of Sioux horses. Enter ex-army doctor Jonathan Westgate, who becomes Cook's rival for the love of Joan, opposes his crooked activities...and who alone can prevent a new Indian war.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: horse trader, surgeon, native american, love interest, sergeant, thief, striking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Late one evening, Brenda Martin, a thirty-seven year old Caucasian woman from the proverbial wrong side of the tracks, enters Dempsy Medical Center in Dempsy, New Jersey with minor injuries, but she is also emotionally distraught. One of the people to who she tells her story is Dempsy Police Detective Lorenzo Council, a black man. That story is that she was just carjacked by another unknown black man when she took a shortcut that she had never traveled between the Armstrong housing projects, where she works at the Rainbow Club, a children's center, and her home in Gannon, New Jersey. Her emotional distress is because her four year old son, Cody, was asleep in the back seat of the car and is thus now in the hands of the carjacker. Brenda's brother, Danny Martin, a police detective in Gannon, cannot help but get directly involved in the investigation despite he operating outside his jurisdiction. His actions do not sit well with Council, who he insinuates is not only not doing his job, ...
Plot Keywords: detective, partner, son, activist, mother, black man, fiery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Political satire about an underground militant group that kidnaps African-Americans who have sold out their race. The story follows as the group led Curtis-Hall and Rhames kidnaps an advertising executive (La Salle) who has been providing advertising programs that belittles blacks and women. One advertisement features Spike Lee endorsing Gospelpak Fried Chicken which comes in a bucket with the Confederate flag draped all over it.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: ad executive, activist, african-american, restaurant employee, kidnapper, militant, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Drew (Larenz Tate) is a quiet 16-year-old still recovering from the trauma of accidentally burning his own house down. Drew's parents, Kenny (Joe Morton) and Brenda (Suzzanne Douglas), take the family to Martha's Vineyard, Mass., to vacation with their wealthy relatives for the summer. On the island, Drew discovers an upper-class black community that centers on parties held at a beach called the Inkwell. There, he falls for two different women (Jada Pinkett, Adrienne-Joi Johnson).
Plot Keywords: teen boy, mother, father, sister, husband, love interest, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A dean (Sarah Jessica Parker) at a Vermont college deals with controversy when a student (James Rebhorn) becomes the target of racism.
Plot Keywords: teacher, dean, student, african-american, reporter, professor, brooding ...
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