Films like Get on the Bus
Fifteen Black men gather in South Central LA to take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in October 1995. Among the attendees are an eclectic set of characters, including a laid-off aircraft worker, a man whose at-risk son is handcuffed to h...
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Rustin
Film · 2023 · also drama and historyActivist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.
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Son of the South
Film · 2021 · also drama and historyIn 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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Free State of Jones
Film · 2016 · also drama and historyIn 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After h...
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The Trial of the Chicago 7
Film · 2020 · also drama and historyWhat 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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Straight Outta Compton
Film · 2015 · also drama and historyIn 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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Nickel Boys
Film · 2024 · also drama and historyChronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
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Escape from Pretoria
Film · 2020 · also drama and historySouth Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion...
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The Survivor
Film · 2022 · also drama and historyHarry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use high-profile fights aga...
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Malcolm X
Film · 1992 · also drama and historyA tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim...
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Glory
Film · 1989 · also drama and historyRobert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
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