Paris Is Burning (1990), Bowling for Columbine (2002), Inside Man (2006), Fruitvale Station (2013), Shock Corridor (1963), The Farm: Angola, USA (1998), The Arbor (2010), Hustle & Flow (2005) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Racial Issues movies.
Storyline: This is a documentary of 'drag nights' among New York's underclass. Queens are interviewed and observed preparing for and competing in many 'balls'. The people, the clothes, and the whole environment are outlandish.—Robbie Smith <robsmith@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: documentary, lgbtq+, new york, 1980s, african american, identity, marginalized communities ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Furthermore, he seeks to investigate and confront the powerful elite political and corporate interests fanning this culture for their own unscrupulous gain.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: documentary, social issues, gun violence, american culture, politics, media influence, controversial ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Composed and meticulous, the soft-spoken and ingenious bank robber, Dalton Russell, has orchestrated the perfect heist--shortly, the Manhattan bank at the corner of Wall Street and Broadway along with dozens of hostages will be his to command. Try as he might, the rough hostage negotiator, Keith Frazier, is always one step behind the criminal mastermind--and what is more disheartening--the institution's silver-haired founder, Arthur Case, recruits the intelligent problem-fixer, Madeline White, to retrieve something of paramount importance. However, the thieves seem to procrastinate intentionally, when they should be rushing into action. Will Arthur and Madeline get what they want this time?
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, mystery, heist, hostage, new york, police ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This is the true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: being a better son to his mother, whose birthday falls on New Year's Eve, being a better partner to his girlfriend, who he hasn't been completely honest with as of late, and being a better father to T, their beautiful 4 year old daughter. He starts out well, but as the day goes on, he realizes that change is not going to come easy. He crosses paths with friends, family, and strangers, each exchange showing us that there is much more to Oscar than meets the eye. But it would be his final encounter of the day, with police officers at the Fruitvale BART station that would shake the Bay Area to its very core, and cause the entire nation to be witnesses to the story of Oscar Grant.
Plot Keywords: true story, racial issues, police brutality, social injustice, american society, tragedy, human rights ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Johnny Barrett, an ambitious journalist, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a psychiatrist, and the reluctant help of his girlfriend, he succeeds in having himself declared insane and sent to the asylum. There he slowly tracks down and interviews the witnesses - but things are stranger than they seem ...—David Levene <D.S.Levene@durham.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, film noir, investigative journalist, social criticism, racial issues, cold war era, mental illness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.
Plot Keywords: prison, documentary, usa, louisiana, crime, justice system, racial issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, drama, british film, social realism, based on true events, working class ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Aspiring emcee DJay works the angles to get his first record made with help from assorted people in his Memphis 'hood. And when he hears that hip-hop superstar Skinny Black is heading to his area, he throws together a supreme hustle to grab Skinny's attention.
Plot Keywords: musical, underdog story, american south, street life, social outcasts, redemption, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A black man (Melvin Van Peebles) flees to Mexico after killing two white policemen who beat a black militant.
Plot Keywords: independent film, racial issues, social critique, low budget, male protagonist, american film, 1970s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued. After the police initially declared the shooting as justified, journalists and activists fought for footage of the event to be released, sending the Chicago Police Department and local Chicago government officials into upheaval as the community demanded justice.—SHOWTIME
Plot Keywords: documentary, police brutality, racial discrimination, judicial injustice, chicago, true story, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The lives of four drug dealers, one user, and two prostitutes are explored.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, british film, social issues, violence, drugs, street life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The star attraction of the Piccadilly Club is the dancing team of Mabel and Vic. Victor is infatuated with Mabel, but she rejects his advances, since she is in love with Valentine Wilmot, the club's owner. One night, as Mabel and Vic perform their act, there is a disruption caused by a customer who is unhappy about a dirty plate. When Wilmot goes back to the kitchen to investigate, he finds several employees in the scullery watching Shosho, one of the dishwashers, dancing on a table. That night, Wilmot fires both Shosho and Victor. But the club's sagging fortunes soon lead him to re-evaluate Shosho's talent.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: silent film, black and white film, british film, drama, crime film, musical, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be earning minimum wage. Two women - one white, one Mohawk, both single mothers faced with desperate circumstances - are drawn into the world of border smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River. Ray and Lila - and a New York State Trooper as opponent in an evolving cat-and-mouse game.
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, thriller, independent film, female protagonist, poverty, single parent ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Michael Moore examines the current state of American politics, particularly the Donald Trump presidency and gun violence, while highlighting the power of grassroots democratic movements.
Plot Keywords: political documentary, american politics, social commentary, democracy, gun violence, corruption, media ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nick Broomfield digs into the case of the notorious serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper, who terrorized South Central Los Angeles over a span of twenty-five years.
Plot Keywords: crime, documentary, murder, serial killer, true crime, investigation, los angeles ...
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