The Vernon Johns Story (1994), The Help (2011), The Best of Enemies (2019), Once Upon A Time... When We Were Colored (1995), The Well (1951), Running for Grace (2018), The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990), Proud (2004) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Segregation movies.
Storyline: This biopic follows the life of Vernon Johns (James Earl Jones) -- now known as the father of the civil rights movement -- during the years he preceded Martin Luther King Jr. as minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Johns champions the cause of desegregation, clashing with local white authorities; the more cautious members of his own church; his wife (Mary Alice), who fears he'll lose his pulpit; and his children, who fear he will lose his life.
Plot Keywords: preacher, wife, daughter, judge, police officer, uplifting, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives -- and a Mississippi town -- upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen (Davis), Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up -- to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter's life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories -- and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly -- and unwillingly -- caught up in the changing times.
Plot Keywords: maid, journalist, editor, rival, mother, heartwarming, inspiring ...
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 film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent his childhood there. Despite this, we see the life of the community in all its joys and sorrows, of those that live there while others decide to leave for a better life north. For those remaining, things come to a serious situation when one prominent businessman is being muscled out by a white competitor using racist intimidation. In response, the community must make the decision of whether to submit meekly like they always have, or finally fight for their rights.—Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
Plot Keywords: young boy, great-grandfather, great-grandmother, dancer, friend, tender, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a racially-mixed American town, a 5-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. With nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors run wild. Before hapless, innocent Claude Packard is even found, popular hysteria has him tried and convicted. But Packard's troubles pale by comparison as ever more-inflated rumors uncap the well of racial tensions and mob violence. And young Carolyn Crawford, forgotten by most, is still missing.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: sheriff, white man, young girl, nephew, stranger, engineer, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A timeless tale that takes place against the backdrop of the segregated coffee fields in 1920s Hawaii - a coming-of-age journey about a young man who transcends the boundaries of race and class in pursuit of a forbidden love.
Plot Keywords: man, woman, doctor, engaging, emotional, powerful, hawaii ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.
Plot Keywords: army officer, african-american, baseball player, mother, attorney, joe louis, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The true story of one of only two U.S. Navy ships that saw combat in World War II with African-American crews.
Plot Keywords: sailor, naval officer, grandfather, crew member, grandson, inspiring, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a struggling white worker in a chocolate factory, loving husband and father of two children. While delivering a package for black CEO Thaddeus Thomas, he is mistaken for a voyeur and, as a result, loses his job, gets beaten by black cops and his family gets evicted from their home. Desperate, Pinnock takes a deadly weapon and kidnaps Thomas, demanding justice, but the fight he will have to finish will cost him more than his job was ever worth.—Dragan Antulov <dragan.antulov@altbbs.fido.hr>
Plot Keywords: factory worker, ceo, african-american, white person, wife, police officer, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Los Angeles circa 1991, humans live alongside extraterrestrial humanoid beings whose spaceship crash landed three years earlier. This coexistence is not always harmonious, as exemplified by segregated slums and the uneasy partnership of police detective Matthew Sykes (James Caan) with new humanoid partner Sam Francisco (Mandy Patinkin). However, the pair begin to overcome their differences as they investigate a slum drug ring led by the slippery William Harcourt (Terence Stamp).
Plot Keywords: alien, police detective, drug dealer, creepy, offbeat, thrilling, los angeles ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Although "Mardi Gras" immediately brings to mind New Orleans for most people, the first Mardi Gras in America was actually held in Mobile, Ala., over 300 years ago. Remarkably, even in 2007, the festivities remain racially segregated, with two pairs of kings and queens -- one black, one white. Filmmaker Margaret Brown takes us through the divided zones of Mobile's current Mardi Gras celebrations as numerous participants attempt to initiate an integration between black and white revelers.
Plot Keywords: townsperson, partygoer, event coordinator, king, queen, documentarian, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of U.S. soldiers is sent behind enemy lines to rescue a lost platoon.
Plot Keywords: soldier, officer, black man, white man, bleak, disheartening, engaging ...
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