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1. 42 (2013)
PG-13 | 128 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
In 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era when he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers and faces considerable racism in the process.
Director: Brian Helgeland | Stars: Chadwick Boseman, T.R. Knight, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie
Votes: 102,857 | Gross: $95.00M
2. 13th (2016)
TV-MA | 100 min | Documentary, Crime, History
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker, Dolores Canales
Votes: 37,712
3. The Walk (I) (2022)
R | 105 min | Drama
In 1974, a Boston Irish cop confronts fierce social pressure after being assigned to protect black high school students as they are bused into all-white South Boston High.
Director: Daniel Adams | Stars: Justin Chatwin, Malcolm McDowell, Katie Douglas, Terrence Howard
Votes: 412
4. Separate But Equal (1991)
PG | 190 min | Drama, History
A dramatization of the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
Stars: Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster, Richard Kiley, Cleavon Little
Votes: 786
5. Hotel (1967)
GP | 124 min | Drama
A historical New Orleans hotel struggles to financially survive while the dramas of its various guests unfold.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak, Karl Malden, Melvyn Douglas
Votes: 1,660
6. Halls of Anger (1970)
GP | 96 min | Drama
An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transferred there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: Calvin Lockhart, Janet MacLachlan, Jeff Bridges, James A. Watson Jr.
Votes: 437
7. Children on Their Birthdays (2002)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
12 year old Lily Bobbit moves to Medda, Ala, and immediately makes an impression on the residents when she and her friends team up to outsmart a con man, the town is changed forever.
Director: Mark Medoff | Stars: Sheryl Lee, Christopher McDonald, Tom Arnold, Joe Pichler
Votes: 585
8. Magnet of Doom (1963)
102 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Broke French ex-paratrooper turned amateur boxer Michel Maudet becomes bodyguard for the fugitive corrupt banker Ferchaux.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Vanel, Michèle Mercier, Malvina Silberberg
Votes: 1,764
9. Take a Giant Step (1959)
Approved | 100 min | Drama
A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War ... See full summary »
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Johnny Nash, Estelle Hemsley, Ruby Dee, Frederick O'Neal
Votes: 490
10. With All Deliberate Speed (2004)
Unrated | 110 min | Documentary, History
Documentary filmmaker Peter Gilbert unearths the legacy of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education -- where it was ruled that "in the field of public education, ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Gilbert | Stars: Vernon Jordan, Thurgood Marshall Jr., Jeffrey Wright, Mekhi Phifer
Votes: 72 | Gross: $0.01M
11. Prince Jack (1984)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama
John F. Kennedy makes decisions with his father, brother Robert, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King.
Director: Bert Lovitt | Stars: Robert Hogan, James F. Kelly, Kenneth Mars, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 45
12. Stolen Education (2013)
PG | 66 min | Documentary, Drama
In 1956 eight students testified in a federal desegregation court case. As Mexican Americans, they were placed in three years of first grade as a way to discriminate against them by the all... See full summary »
Director: Rudy Luna | Stars: Enrique Alemán Jr., Esperanza Alemán, Norma E. Cantu, Consuelo Esparza
Votes: 20
13. Journey of a Journalist (2021– )
Drama
A young African American Writer helps to liberate the City of New Orleans from the deadly grip of a Jim Crow Segregationist Mayor who has his eyes firmly set on the destruction of a Louisiana U.S. Senator.
14. A City Decides (1957)
27 min | Documentary, Short
A City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in 1954.
Director: Charles Guggenheim
Votes: 32
15. Crime of the Big Leagues (2016)
11 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary about Lester Rodney, the sports editor of the Daily Worker and and unsung hero in the fight to desegregate America's national pastime of baseball.
Director: Randy Field
16. Billy Graham: God's Ambassador (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 122 min | Documentary, Biography, Romance
The life and times of the evangelist Billy Graham are the subject of this documentary.
Director: Michael Merriman | Stars: John Akers, Cliff Barrows, Ralph Bell, Richard Bewes
Votes: 76
17. Shades of Gray (2001)
73 min | Documentary
A look at five ordinary people leading normal lives in Lawrence, Kansas who just happen to be gay and lesbian. This look at gay life in America's heartland is complicated a bit when the ... See full summary »
Director: Tim De Paepe | Stars: Leo Barbie, Fred Phelps
Votes: 20
18. Hoxie: The First Stand (2003)
56 min | Documentary
A documentary examination of the voluntary 1955 desegregation of the public school system in the town of Hoxie, Arkansas, USA.
Director: David Appleby | Star: Julian Bond
Votes: 11
19. Let Us Break Bread Together (How Brotherhood Builds Democracy) (1954)
26 min | Documentary, Short
A short showing the process of integrating the New York City school system.
Star: Harry L. Rothman
20. King (2008 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Forty years after Martin Luther King s assassination, HISTORY, with newsman Tom Brokaw, takes viewers through the extraordinary life and times of America's civil rights visionary. KING goes... See full summary »
Stars: Juanita Abernathy, Harry Belafonte, Tom Brokaw, Xernona Clayton
Votes: 27
22. Action Words
Biography, History, Mystery | Announced
Journalist Ora M. Lewis fearlessly confronts lynch mobs and killers in Louisiana in 1936. Together with her mentor, she brings a dramatic end to their murders and violence.
23. The Desegregation of Huntsville (2019)
9 min | Short
When NASA arrived in Huntsville, Alabama in 1960, it brought new financial opportunities to the city. But for African Americans, the space boom only heightened the disparities of ... See full summary »
24. Gene Littles at High Point College (2021)
13 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
Former ABA player and NBA coach Gene Littles walked among giants, like Michael Jordan and Julius Erving. In the 1960s, he desegregated High Point College as the school's first black student.
Director: Alex Koebke | Stars: Yvette Koebke, Darren Littles, Gene Littles
25.
Highlander (1992–1998)
Episode:
Run for Your Life
(1993)
TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Duncan tries to restore hope in his friend Immortal Carl Robinson, whom he saved from a racial lynching in 1929 Louisiana. Due to Carl's past and present experiences, he has forgotten his dreams and lost faith in mankind.
Director: Dennis Berry | Stars: Adrian Paul, Stan Kirsch, Philip Akin, Jim Byrnes
Votes: 186
26.
Picket Fences (1992–1996)
Episode:
Enemy Lines
(1994)
Crime, Drama, Family
Judge Nance puts Jill in jail to make a point. Littleton asks Maxine out on a date which causes her to reexamine her views on interracial dating. Kimberly's attempt at starting an interracial friendship with Aisha turns into a fight.
Director: James Frawley | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Costas Mandylor, Lauren Holly
Votes: 57
27.
Picket Fences (1992–1996)
Episode:
The Bus Stops Here
(1994)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Family
A Wisconson Federal judge orders that 400 black students from the Green Bay ghetto be bused to Rome's schools, prompting panic among Sheriff Brock and the parents, knowing that a good ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Pressman | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Costas Mandylor, Lauren Holly
Votes: 61
28.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
The Ark in Space: Part Two
(1975)
TV-Y | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The Doctor and Harry revive the Ark's medtech, Vira, to help Sarah.But when station commander Noah is revived, he becomes suspicious of the newcomers.
Director: Rodney Bennett | Stars: Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Ian Marter, Wendy Williams
Votes: 798
29.
Eyes on the Prize (1987–1990)
Episode:
Awakenings: 1954-1956
(1987)
TV-PG | 57 min | Documentary, History
The beginnings of the U.S. Civil rights struggle is profiled, including the Emmett Till murder trial and the Rosa Parks arrest/Montgomery bus boycott.
Director: Judith Vecchione | Stars: Ralph Abernathy, Joe Azbell, Frances Belser, Unita Blackwell
Votes: 44
30.
Eyes on the Prize (1987–1990)
Episode:
Fighting Back: 1957-1962
(1987)
TV-PG | 57 min | Documentary, History
Following the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown Vs the Board of Education decision, the civil rights movement presses the issue of desegregation in schools. From Little Rock High School and ... See full summary »
Director: Judith Vecchione | Stars: Lindsay Almond Jr., Melvin Bailey, Ross Barnett, Lucius Christopher Bates
Votes: 42
31.
Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode:
Episode dated 17 May 1954
(1954)
News, Talk-Show
Lesueur and John B. Oakes, New York Times editorial board member, interview U.S. Senator Paul H. Douglas, a Democrat from Illinois. Topics include the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's ... See full summary »
Stars: Paul H. Douglas, Larry LeSueur, John B. Oakes
32.
Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode:
Episode dated 7 June 1954
(1954)
News, Talk-Show
Lesueur and Calmer interview U.S. Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, a Democrat from New York. Topics include the recent Supreme Court decision, Brown v. School Board of Topeka, the political... See full summary »
33.
Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode:
Episode dated 17 September 1954
(1954)
News, Talk-Show
Lesueur and Burdett interview Congressman Kenneth A. Roberts, a Democrat from Alabama. Topics include economic revival and social change in the South, southerners attitudes towards the ... See full summary »
34.
Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode:
Episode dated 6 October 1954
(1954)
News, Talk-Show
Lesueur and Heckscher interview Robert B. Meyner, Governor of New Jersey. Topics include Meyner's opinion of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the state of New Jersey's economy, campaign ... See full summary »
35.
Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode:
Episode dated 25 March 1955
(1955)
News, Talk-Show
Lesueur and Cronkite interview Senator James O. Eastland, a Democrat from Mississippi. Topics include discussion about revelations that government witness Harry Matusow lied repeatedly at ... See full summary »
Stars: Walter Cronkite, James Eastland, Larry LeSueur
36.
Underworld Histories (2006– )
Episode:
Boston
(2008)
Crime, Drama
Director: Chris Lent | Stars: Rory O'Shea, Christian Bako, Adam Bradley, Guy Castonguay
37.
Frontline (1983– )
Episode:
American Reckoning
(2022)
TV-PG | Documentary, News
Who killed Wharlest Jackson? In the upcoming documentary "American Reckoning," an unsolved 1960s murder reveals an untold story of the civil rights movement and Black resistance.
Directors: Brad Lichtenstein, Yoruba Richen | Stars: Ser Clifford Boxley, Leland Boyd, Charles Evers, Cheryl Glover
Votes: 39
38.
The Century: America's Time (1999– )
Episode:
1953-1960: Happy Days
(1999)
Not Rated | Documentary
Americans revel in their newfound prosperity amid McCarthy Era witch-hunts. Rock N Roll dominates the airwaves and blacks begin to make progress in their battle to end segregation.
Stars: Stephen Ambrose, Melba Beals, Julian Bond, Dick Clark
39.
Trail of History (2016– )
Episode:
Iredell County
(2020)
26 min | History
Trails of History tells the story of how Iredell County came to be what it is today. We visit a man who collects historic county pictures and memorabilia then explore another man's ... See full summary »
Stars: Jason Terzis, Bill Moose, Steve Hill
40.
New Discourses (2020– )
The Marxist Roots of DEI - Session 2: Diversity - James Lindsay
(2023 Podcast Episode)
135 min