Racism Movies

Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke...

In a rapidly changing America where mass inequality and dwindling opportunity have devastated the black working class, three Detroit men must fight...

On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as "issues of the past" emerge as racial tensions and frictions grow...

An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked...

David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's...

Despite the perceived progress the world has made over the years, it's become increasingly clear that racism continues to run through our culture....

The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while...

Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe...

Just outside Belfast in 1974, a British soldier faces the realisation that he can't stand by and let his superior officers treat the public in a...

The documentary tracks the diva's difficult progress as she emerges from the tough, testosterone-fuelled world of the big bands of the 30s and 40s,...

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the...

An ongoing feud between punk rockers and a more affluent clique in a small Texas town leads to a hate crime.

A fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to...

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her...

A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist...

In a small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends...

When a mysterious fog surrounds the boundaries of California, there is a communication breakdown and all the Mexicans disappear, affecting the...

A 17 year-old student is forced to get off the fence he has actively sat on all his life to stand up for himself, his whanau (family) and his future...

Conflict erupts within a close-knit engine company of a big-city fire department when a black recruit and a bigoted white veteran clash during a wave...