Drum (2004), The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey (2005), Across the Line (2015), Up the Down Staircase (1967), Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1993), Head-On (2004), The Glass House (1972), La planète sauvage (1973) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Racial Tension movies.
Storyline: Expanding her (White Riot: London (2017)) short documentary film, Rubika Shah's energizing film charts a vital London protest movement. Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976, prompted by 'music's biggest colonialist' Eric Clapton and his support of racist MP Enoch Powell. White Riot (2019) blends fresh interviews with queasy archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches. As neo-Nazis recruited the nation's youth, RAR's multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided rallying points for resistance. As founder Red Saunders explains: 'We peeled away the Union Jack to reveal the swastika'. The campaign grew from Hoxton fanzine roots to 1978's huge antifascist carnival in Victoria Park, featuring X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse and of course The Clash, whose rock star charisma and gale-force conviction took RAR's message to the masses.—London Film Festival
Plot Keywords: eric clapton, fascist, racist, white supremacist, musician, music lover, protester ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War emphasized in his history class, he storms out and gets caught smoking a cigar in the boys' room. Spence's crush on a white classmate goes nowhere because of her father's attitude toward blacks. His outspoken grandmother seems the only one who understands his angry growing pains, at the early stages of the U.S.'s Civil Rights Era.—David Stevens
Plot Keywords: african-american teenager, grandmother, housekeeper, mother, classmate, prostitute, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: LAPD detective Tom Ludlow is a ruthlessly efficient, unorthodox undercover cop. Captain Jack Wander always covers for Ludlow, as do even his somewhat jealous colleagues. After technically excessive violence against a vicious Korean gang during the liberation of kidnapped child sex slaves, Ludlow becomes the target of hotshot Internal Affairs captain James Biggs, who feels passed over after Wander's promotion to chief. Ludlow's ex-patrol partner, Terrence Washington, sides with IA but is killed during a shop robbery in Ludlow's presence. Ludlow works his way through the twisted rungs of the police and the deadly streets of Los Angeles for answers that lead to more and more questions.
Plot Keywords: police detective, cop, captain, friend, sergeant, criminal, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the late 1940s, Prince Seretse Khama of Bechuanaland is studying law in Britain in preparation for his eventual ascension to the throne. There, the dashing prince falls in love with a white British clerk, Ruth Williams, and they plan to marry. While they suspect that his uncle, the Regent, would disapprove, nothing prepares them for the diplomatic firestorm and domestic political tumult their defiant love would spark. Now facing a citizenry leery of a white Briton as their Queen, the international opposition is even more unyielding from the British holding their land as a protectorate and fearful of South Africa's racist backlash to this affront to their apartheid domination. Against all odds, King Khama and Ruth must struggle to maintain their love and help their people in a land that would become the Republic of Botswana.
Plot Keywords: prince, african, white woman, british woman, citizen, president, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A married couple is forced to reckon with their idealized image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritrea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher threatens his status as an all-star student.
Plot Keywords: adopted son, couple, gripping, uneasy, school, united states, adoption ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A union leader in a large company tries to win equal rights for the handful of West Indian workers at the company, but finds it is an uphill battle. After being successful, and rightly proud of his efforts, he finds that he and his wife have a difficult time coming to terms with the fact that his only daughter intends to marry a West Indian.—Kevin Steinhauer <K.Steinhauer@BoM.GOV.AU>
Plot Keywords: union boss, daughter, spirited, intricate, gutsy, united kingdom, racial issues ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A film by Lisa France. A Luis Moro Production. In a hidden southern Georgia town, nothing is quite what it seems. A small time hustler Harold (Gale Harold) has a few secrets. In his house, Harold locked up his blind brother Sammy (Phillip Bloch) for 20 years. Thats all about to change. Roy, (Steve Harris) their childhood friend, returns to this forgotten town. Roy confronts his own relationship fears and crosses all divides, exposing a secret only known to Harold, Roy and the dead. What the town discovers explodes their worlds. And Harold begins to unleash the demons that lie beneath the unseen.
Plot Keywords: man, brother, entrepreneur, blind person, girlfriend, childhood friend, tense ...
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: JASPER JONES is a coming of age story about Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14. On the night that Jasper Jones, the town's mixed race outcast shows him the dead body of young Laura Wishart, Charlie's life is changed forever. Entrusted with this secret and believing Jasper to be innocent, Charlie embarks on a dangerous journey to find the true killer. Set over the scorching summer holidays of 1969, Charlie defeats the local racists, faces the breakup of his parents and falls head over heels in love as he discovers what it means to be truly courageous.
Plot Keywords: boy, girl, parent, brooding, somber, suspenseful, uneasy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After the abduction by the US military of an Islamic religious leader, New York City becomes the target of escalating terrorist attacks. Anthony Hubbard, the head of the FBI's Counter-Terrorism Task Force in New York, teams up with CIA operative Elise Kraft to hunt down the terrorist cells responsible for the attacks. As the bombings continue, the US government responds by declaring martial law, sending US troops, led by Gen. Devereaux, into the streets of New York City.
Plot Keywords: fbi agent, nsa agent, general, arab-american, associate, gritty, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the Korean War, the lieutenant in charge of a Marine rifle platoon is killed in battle. Before he dies, he places the platoon's sergeant, who's black, in charge. The sergeant figures on having trouble with two men in his platoon: a private who has much more combat experience than he does, and a racist Southerner who doesn't like blacks in the first place and has no intention of taking orders from one.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: marine, sergeant, lieutenant, private, soldier, emotional, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduce him) and others.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: daughter, farmhand, native american, nurse, sheriff, rancher, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Baron Samedi (Don Pedro Colley) summons the undead with voodoo to help a woman (Marki Bey) fight killer gangsters.
Plot Keywords: nightclub owner, mob boss, demon, fiancée, voodoo queen, corpse, outlandish ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Youth culture meets identity politics in this part-thriller, part-gay love story set in London in 1977, days before the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations. The hedonistic world of pirate DJs Chris and Caz is shattered when a close friend is killed while cruising in the local park. The black community suspect the National Front, but the police pull Chris in as a suspect. This beautifully crafted period piece, a bold and stylish debut feature from Isaac Julien, paints a convincing picture of late-'70s London. The city is a carefully mapped out social landscape, open to all but offering safety to none, as we are taken to a Dalston barber, east London council estates festooned with Union Jacks, West End offices, soul clubs and city parks.
Plot Keywords: dj, neo-nazi, police officers, punk, emotional, cool, raw ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A white school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined black high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team.
Plot Keywords: basketball coach, gym teacher, high-school student, basketball player, friend, amusing, inspiring ...
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