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1. Gone with the Wind (1939)

Passed | 238 min | Drama, Romance, War

8.2

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97 Metascore

A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil

Votes: 334,287 | Gross: $198.68M

2. 12 Years a Slave (2013)

R | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History

8.1

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96 Metascore

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt

Votes: 741,300 | Gross: $56.67M

3. In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Approved | 110 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

7.9

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76 Metascore

A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.

Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant

Votes: 83,561 | Gross: $24.38M

4. The Birth of a Nation (1915)

TV-PG | 195 min | Drama, History, War

6.1

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The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper

Votes: 26,339 | Gross: $10.00M

5. The Butler (I) (2013)

PG-13 | 132 min | Biography, Drama

7.2

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65 Metascore

As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.

Director: Lee Daniels | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda

Votes: 119,735 | Gross: $116.63M

6. Antebellum (2020)

R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

5.8

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43 Metascore

Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.

Directors: Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz | Stars: Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston

Votes: 29,805

7. Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)

Unrated | 123 min | Drama

6.5

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Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.

Directors: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi | Stars: Stefano Sibaldi, Susan Hampshire, Dick Gregory, Gualtiero Jacopetti

Votes: 1,752

8. The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)

TV-G | 78 min | Drama

6.6

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A tenant farmer's son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner's seductive daughter.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Bette Davis, Dorothy Jordan, Hardie Albright

Votes: 1,878

9. Kisses for Breakfast (1941)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Romance

5.8

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Rodney has just married the often engaged Juliette and they are both ready to leave on their honeymoon. However, Clara showed up and Rodney sneaks out to talk to her. Clara is blackmailing ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyatt, Shirley Ross, Lee Patrick

Votes: 253

10. A Lady of Chance (1928)

Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

6.9

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Seasoned grifter Dolly Crandall returns to the 'badger game' but has a change of heart when she falls in love with a young man she believes is a rich Southerner.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Norma Shearer, Lowell Sherman, Gwen Lee, Johnny Mack Brown

Votes: 540

11. Mississippi Hare (1949)

Approved | 8 min | Family, Animation, Short

7.5

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Cotton pickers mistake Bugs' tail for a ball of cotton and toss him in with the rest of the haul. On the riverboat Bugs takes on the gambler Colonel Shuffle.

Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, The Sportsmen Quartet

Votes: 768

12. Birds of America (2021)

80 min | Documentary

7.3

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An American odyssey along the Mississippi River banks which unfolds as a novel counter-history of the politics of the United States from an environmental point of view.

Director: Jacques Loeuille

Votes: 48

13. Riverboat (1959–1961)
Episode: Duel on the River (1960)

60 min | Adventure, Western

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Captain Holden and the Enterprise crew find themselves caught between ruthless Brian Cloud, who monopolizes all the cotton crop in the area, and Laurie Rawlings, the wife of a cotton ... See full summary »

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Darren McGavin, Noah Beery Jr., Fay Spain, Claude Akins