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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 revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
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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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Panther
Film · 1995 · also drama and historyIn this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as the Panthers battle for the right to exist.
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BlacKkKlansman
Film · 2018 · also drama and historyColorado 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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Detroit
Film · 2017 · also drama and historyA police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.
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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 Great Debaters
Film · 2007 · also dramaThe true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students int...
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The Man with the Iron Heart
Film · 2017 · also historyWith the Third Reich at its peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to...
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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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The Negotiator
Film · 1998 · also dramaThe police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thi...
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City Hall
Film · 1996 · also dramaThe accidental shooting of a boy in New York City leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.
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