Films like Detroit

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   Plan A

   Film · 2021 · also drama and history

   Germany 1945, Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, meets a radical group of Jewish resistance fighters, who, like him, lost all hope for their future after they were robbed...

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   The Trial of the Chicago 7

   Film · 2020 · also drama and history

   What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

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   BlacKkKlansman

   Film · 2018 · also drama and history

   Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the...

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   Son of the South

   Film · 2021 · also drama and history

   In civil rights era Montgomery, Alabama, Klansman's grandson Bob Zellner must choose which side of history to be on during the Movement. Defying his family and white Sout...

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   The Pentagon Papers

   Film · 2003 · also drama and history

   This compelling political drama is based on the true story of high-ranking Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg, who, during the Nixon era, strove to preserve American democ...

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   Straight Outta Compton

   Film · 2015 · also drama and history

   In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most...

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   Judas and the Black Messiah

   Film · 2021 · also drama and history

   Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow re...

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   A Dry White Season

   Film · 1989 · also drama and thriller

   During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police cu...

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   The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain

   Film · 2021 · also drama and thriller

   Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a...

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    Is God Is

    Film · 2026 · also drama and thriller

    Two sisters embark on an epic quest for revenge, confronting a charged family history that pushes them to extraordinary lengths.

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