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Medium Cool (1969), A Dry White Season (1989), For Queen and Country (1988), Flame in the Streets (1961), Selma (2014), City of Hope (1991), American Violet (2008) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

Medium Cool (1969)

Medium Cool (1969)

7.3/10 Drama

A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

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A Dry White Season (1989)

A Dry White Season (1989)

8.1/10 Drama

A white South African challenges government policies when he accuses a police captain of the murder of a black man.

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For Queen and Country (1988)

For Queen and Country (1988)

5.6/10 Drama

A retired British soldier struggles to adjust to everyday life, with increasing difficulty.

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Flame in the Streets (1961)

Flame in the Streets (1961)

6.7/10 Drama

During the 1960s in Britain, tense race relations between whites and blacks are affecting the workplace, the family, the dating scene, and the society at large.

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Selma (2014)

Selma (2014)

7.5/10 Drama, Biography, History

A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.

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City of Hope (1991)

City of Hope (1991)

7.3/10 Drama, Adventure

An intersecting tale with a multitude of characters living lives which, in one way or another, revolve around an old apartment block scheduled to be demolished.

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American Violet (2008)

American Violet (2008)

7.0/10 Drama

A single mother struggles to clear her name after being wrongly accused and arrested for dealing drugs in an impoverished town in Texas.

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Guilty by Suspicion (1991)

Guilty by Suspicion (1991)

6.5/10 Drama

David Merrill (Robert De Niro), a fictitious 1950s Hollywood Director, returns from filming abroad in France to find that his loyalty has been called into question by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and he is unable to work until cleared. Before being called, his highest priority had been his work to the extent of leaving his wife (Annette Bening) and s...Read all

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The Exiles (1961)

The Exiles (1961)

8.9/10 Drama

In a Native American neighborhood in Los Angeles, Homer (Homer Nish) lives with his pregnant wife, Yvonne (Yvonne Williams), in a crowded apartment. While Homer goes drinking with his friend Tommy (Tom Reynolds), Yvonne is left at a movie by herself. As the men get progressively drunker, Yvonne realizes her husband is not coming home. Meanwhile, Homer and Tommy wander through the nighttime city, looking for fights, playing poker and discussing their problems as Native Americans.

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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)

8.9/10 Drama

A 110-year-old former Louisiana slave (Cicely Tyson) reminisces about her life and society from the Civil War to germinating civil rights.

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A Raisin in the Sun (2008)

A Raisin in the Sun (2008)

8.6/10 Drama

A widow (Phylicia Rashad), her son (Sean Combs) and other members of a black family have differing ideas on how to spend a $10,000 life-insurance check.

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Mr. and Mrs. Loving (1996)

Mr. and Mrs. Loving (1996)

5.3/10 Drama

A high profile, heartless art critic retreats to his cottage on the lake to clear his head. There he runs into a recent victim of one of his particularly nasty reviews and makes a drunken proclamation that any idiot can make art.

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Michael Kohlhaas (2013)

Michael Kohlhaas (2013)

4.7/10 Drama

In 16th-century France, a horse trader (Mads Mikkelsen) raises a peasant army and goes to war to exact vengeance on an unjust lord.

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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)

7.3/10 Drama

Jimmie Blacksmith, the son of an Aboriginal mother and a white father, falls victim to much racist abuse after marrying a white woman, and goes on a killing spree and finds himself on the run in the aftermath.

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The Winslow Boy (1999)

The Winslow Boy (1999)

7.3/10 Drama, History

Following the theft of a postal-order, a fourteen-year old cadet is expelled from Naval College. To save the honour of the boy and his family, the pre-eminent barrister of the day is engaged to take on the might the Admiralty.

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Heaven's Gate (1980)

Heaven's Gate (1980)

6.8/10 Adventure, Drama, Western

A dramatization of the real-life Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, in which a Sheriff born into wealth, attempts to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.

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Six Degrees of Separation (1993)

Six Degrees of Separation (1993)

6.8/10 Comedy, Drama, Mystery

An affluent New York City couple finds their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.

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Higher Learning (1995)

Higher Learning (1995)

6.5/10 Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller

People from all different walks of life, encounter racial tension, rape, responsibility, and the meaning of an education on a university campus.

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