Films like The Trial of the Chicago 7

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   Panther

   Film · 1995 · also drama and history

   In 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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   Judas and the Black Messiah

   Film · 2021 · also drama and history

   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 re...

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   Medium Cool

   Film · 1969 · also drama

   John Cassellis is the toughest TV news reporter around. After extensively reporting about violence and racial tensions in poor communities, he discovers that his network...

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   Rustin

   Film · 2023 · also drama and history

   Activist 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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   Marshall

   Film · 2017 · also drama

   Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.

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   Nickel Boys

   Film · 2024 · also drama and history

   Chronicles 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 history

   Colorado 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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   Oranges and Sunshine

   Film · 2010 · also drama and history

   The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of child...

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   Truth & Treason

   Film · 2025 · also drama and history

   In 1941 Nazi Germany, 16-year-old Helmuth Hübener begins questioning the regime after learning the truth about the war and seeing his Jewish friend persecuted. With two f...

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    Son of the South

    Film · 2021 · also drama and history

    In 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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