Films like Norma Rae
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, s...
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Flamin' Hot
Film · 2023 · also dramaThe inspiring true story of Richard Montañez, the Frito Lay janitor who channeled his Mexican American heritage and upbringing to turn the iconic Flamin' Hot Cheetos into...
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Selma
Film · 2014 · also drama"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lynd...
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Film · 1962 · also dramaScout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious...
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The Best of Enemies
Film · 2019 · also dramaCenters on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a com...
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Harriet
Film · 2019 · also dramaThe extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity and tenacity freed hundred...
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Losing Isaiah
Film · 1995 · also dramaKhaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reali...
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The Color Purple
Film · 2023 · also dramaA decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary stre...
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Bubble
Film · 2006 · also dramaSet against the backdrop of a decaying Midwestern town, a murder becomes the focal point of three people who work in a doll factory.
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The Adventures of Huck Finn
Film · 1993 · also dramaMischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an attempt to take away a $600 inheritance from his late mother. Fearing fo...
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Jimmy's Hall
Film · 2014 · also dramaIn Depression-era Ireland, Jimmy Gralton returns home after a decade's exile in America. Witnessing the levels of poverty and oppression, his inner activist reawakens and...
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