Most Similar Movies to Once Upon A Time... When We Were Colored (1995)
If you are looking for movies like Once Upon A Time... When We Were Colored (1995), you might like movies tagged with keyword : race relations, african american, family, community, coming of age, history, discrimination, social injustice, cultural heritage, hope, resilience, unity, rural life, education, poverty, struggle, tradition, social change, american history, racial equality .
Sounder (1972), Nothing But a Man (1964), The Learning Tree (1969), Pather Panchali (1955), Machuca (2004), How Green Was My Valley (1941), Selma (2014) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Sounder (1972)
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
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Nothing But a Man (1964)
A black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
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The Learning Tree (1969)
The story, set in Kansas during the 1920s, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values.
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Pather Panchali (1955)
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
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How Green Was My Valley (1941)
At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
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Selma (2014)
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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My Family/Mi Familia (1995)
A man makes his way from Mexico to L.A. in the 1920s, gets married and raises a big family there. The movie follows the children until they, too, get married and have children in the 1960s.
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Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013)
A White House butler (Forest Whitaker) has a front-row seat to history through three decades and seven presidential administrations, including those of Eisenhower (Robin Williams), Kennedy (James Marsden) and Nixon (John Cusack).
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Where the Lilies Bloom (1974)
A family of Appalachian children live together in the backwoods so that they can stay together after the death of their widower father.
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The New Land (1972)
Swedish emigrants Karl-Oskar (Max von Sydow), wife Kristina (Liv Ullmann) and family struggle in 1850 Minnesota.
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The Clay Bird (2002)
In East Pakistan a strict Muslim (Jayanto Chattopadhyay) enrolls his young son (Nurul Islam Bablu) in an Islamic school, where the boy befriends the class outcast (Russell Farazi).
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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)
In 1970 a Jewish neighbor (Germano Haiut) takes in a Brazilian boy (Michel Joelsas) whose parents are fugitives and whose grandfather has unexpectedly died.
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Kings (2017)
A tough, protective single mother forms an unlikely alliance with the the only white man in her Los Angeles neighborhood in the wake of the 1992 riots.
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In America (2002)
A family of Irish immigrants adjust to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
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Soundtrack for a Revolution (2009)
A fresh and exhilarating take on one of the most important social movements in American history, Soundtrack for a Revolution explores the civil rights struggle through the powerful and stirring songs that inspired a generation.
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The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan (2004)
In 2001, the Taliban government of Afghanistan destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan, the world's tallest stone sculptures. By the summer of 2002, after the fall of the Taliban, more than 250 Afghans, most of them Hazara refugees, were living in caves beside the rubble. This film, organized chronologically over four seasons, follows a refugee family living there, including...Read all
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The Dark Horse (2014)
A brilliant but troubled New Zealand chess champion finds purpose by teaching underprivileged children about the rules of chess and life.
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