Films like The Butler
Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the W...
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All the Way
Film · 2016 · also dramaLyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential ca...
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W.
Film · 2008 · also dramaThe story of the eventful life of George W. Bush—his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith—and the critical days leading up to his decision to...
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Reagan
Film · 2024 · also dramaTold through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked with Ronald Reagan's when Reagan first caught the Soviets’ attention a...
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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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LBJ
Film · 2017 · also dramaThe story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.
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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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Richard Jewell
Film · 2019 · also dramaRichard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a co...
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The Banker
Film · 2020 · also dramaIn the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.
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Rosewood
Film · 1997 · also dramaSpurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.
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Belfast
Film · 2021 · also dramaBuddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caug...
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