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- StarsSophie OkonedoExplores the impact of racism on a global scale and chronicles the shifts in the perception of race and the history of racism in Europe, the Americas, Australia and Asia.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsPaul NewmanTom CruiseMary Elizabeth MastrantonioFast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.
- DirectorSteph AtkinsonIn this one-off documentary, BBC Three examines an upsurge in Islamophobia in America, meeting both Texan anti-Islam groups and American Muslims. Award-winning director and producer Steph Atkinson asks how America got here and whether the fears between these different groups are justified.
- DirectorBill BrummelStarsD. Paul ThomasDavid M. ChalmersWilliam M. BanksThe history of the Ku Klux Klan in America.
- DirectorMichael MooreStarsMichael MooreGeorge W. BushBen AffleckMichael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after 9/11 and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
- StarsNaomi AckieGary BeadleKhali BestSmall Axe is based on the real-life experiences of London's West Indian community between 1969 and 1982.
- DirectorRaoul PeckStarsSamuel L. JacksonJames BaldwinMartin Luther KingWriter James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
- DirectorAva DuVernayStarsDavid OyelowoCarmen EjogoOprah WinfreyA chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
- CreatorAva DuVernayStarsAsante BlackkCaleel HarrisEthan HerisseFive teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park. Based on the true story.
- 20211h 58mPG-138.0 (14K)96MetascoreDirectorQuestloveStarsDorinda DrakeBarbara Bland-AcostaDarryl LewisDocumentary about the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which celebrated African-American music and culture and promoted Black pride and unity.
- DirectorShaka KingStarsLaKeith StanfieldDaniel KaluuyaJesse PlemonsOffered a plea deal by the FBI, William O'Neal infiltrates the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party to gather intelligence on Chairman Fred Hampton.
- StarsPeter BleksleyAlex WheatleLeila HoweUprising tells the extraordinary story of three intertwined events from 1981: the New Cross Fire, which killed 13 young black people; the Black People's Day of Action; and the Brixton riots.
- StarsThuso MbeduChase DillonJoel EdgertonA young woman named Cora makes an amazing discovery during her attempt to break free from slavery in the deep south.
- DirectorRegina KingStarsKingsley Ben-AdirEli GoreeAldis HodgeA fictional account of one incredible night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural upheaval of the 60s.
- StarsAimé CésaireEdgar MorinJorge AmadoPortrait in 3 parts composed of testimonies and a long interview of the West Indian poet Aimé Césaire who evokes his literary encounters and his political commitment. Extracts from poems and plays and archival documents illustrate this film. "L'Ile Merveilleuse" is centered on Martinique. After an evocation of his first poems, Césaire speaks of his return to Martinique as a teacher, then of his political commitment within the Communist Party. With Joseph Zobel, René Depestre, Maryse Condé, Roger Fayolle. "At the rendezvous of the conquest" is devoted to Paris, from the 1930s to the 1950s, with the meeting of Léopold Sedar Senghor and Léon Gontran Damas. With Roger Garaudy, Jorge Amado, Dominique Desanti, Albert Memmi and Jean-Toussaint Desanti. "The Force to Watch Tomorrow" addresses the problems of the contemporary world, and first and foremost that of Africa, from the festival of black arts in Dakar (1965) to the tribute paid to Césaire in Miami in 1987. With Pathé Diagne, Juliana Lumumba, Sekou Tour, Jean Malaurie, Edgar Morin, and African Heads of State.
- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsChiwetel EjioforMichael Kenneth WilliamsMichael FassbenderIn the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
- DirectorJordan PeeleStarsDaniel KaluuyaAllison WilliamsBradley WhitfordA young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.