Films like Malcolm X
A 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 and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and r...
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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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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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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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One Night in Miami...
Film · 2020 · also dramaIn the aftermath of Cassius Clay's defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to change the course of history in the segregat...
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The Alto Knights
Film · 2025 · also drama and historyTwo of New York's most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, vie for control of the city's streets. Once the best of friends, petty jealousi...
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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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The Shawshank Redemption
Film · 1994 · also dramaImprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his acco...
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Papillon
Film · 1973 · also dramaA man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
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The Mauritanian
Film · 2021 · also dramaThe true story of the Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center without charges for over a decade and sought he...
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Bloody Sunday
Film · 2002 · also drama and historyThe dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
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