Forrest Gump (1994), The Help (2011), Remember the Titans (2000), Mississippi Burning (1988), 4 Little Girls (1997), The Beatles: Eight Days a Week -- The Touring Years (2016), Ray (2004), Malcolm X (1992) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Civil Rights Movement movies.
Storyline: In 1965, the coach of the high school girl basketball team Don Haskins is invited by the Texas Western Miners to be their coach. Despite the lack of budget, Haskins sees the chance to dispute the NCAA and moves with his wife and children to the college dormitory. He recruits seven talented and rejected black players to play with five Caucasian players and formed a legendary team that won the 1966 national championship against the powerful Kentucky.
Plot Keywords: based on true story, bus, discipline, mother, punishment, respect, single mother ...
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: segregation, based on book, coming of age, racism, mississippi, prejudice, race relations ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of high school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Reactions vary, as Layne is intent on protecting Samson and smuggling him out of the state, while others think it's best to go to the police. Matt's tough little brother also finds out about the body and no one knows quite how the police will learn about the murder or who will be blamed for it.
Plot Keywords: drug, death, police, women's liberation, car, drug abuse, guitarist ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It was a match made in heaven: she was the darling of American tennis, an outspoken activist against sexism in sport and society; he was the charismatic, fast talking, hustling chauvinist showman. Yet their unlikely 'courtship', in the midst of a social revolution, captured the imaginations of people around the world, empowered a generation, and changed sport forever.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: woman wears eyeglasses, television, celebrity, champion, contest, battle, misogyny ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the final few days of Pop's Paradise - a hamburger joint that's been a second home to Westwood High's senior class - and a group of friends must face the biggest decisions of their lives. There's Stick, a surfer headed for Vietnam, Pirate, who wants to discover America along Route 66, and Michael, whose political activism may destroy his Harvard-bound future. Little do any of them realize that their final carefree days will also mark the end of their - and all of America's - innocence.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: prank, high school teacher, premarital sex, police brutality, protest, cruising, bare chested male ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.—Jerry Milani <jmilani@umbc.edu>
Plot Keywords: character name as title, sports team, cat, black cat, actor playing himself, new york city, racism ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chronicles the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago's South Side.
Plot Keywords: office, mayor, cinema, partner, meeting, friendship, work ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This movie tells the story of the latter years of Earl Long, a flamboyant governor of Louisiana. The aging Earl, an unapologetic habitue of strip joints, falls in love with young stripper Blaze Starr. When Earl and Blaze move in together, Earl's opponents use this to attack his controversial political program, which included civil rights for blacks in the 1950's. Can Earl keep Blaze and retain control of the state?—Reid Gagle
Plot Keywords: character name as title, older man younger woman relationship, southern belle, striptease, social injustice, politician, forbidden love ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 2006, Barack Obama -- a largely unknown freshman senator from Illinois -- hits the campaign trail in a struggle to gain national recognition. Cameras follow Obama as he recovers from nearly losing to Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries and meets the challenge of his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, in the general election. After a hard-fought campaign, Obama successfully captures the nation's imagination, becoming the first African-American president in U.S. history.—Jwelch5742
Plot Keywords: congress, politics, first lady, senate, washington d.c., oval office, hawaii ...
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