For One Night
Their town always had two proms, one for the whites and one for the blacks. When both proms wanted the same DJ, Brianna McCallister suggested combining the proms, which would also mean more money for decorations. However, her idea shook the town up, especially after a white student was let off for the same offense that a black student was suspended for. Can the town overcome racial tensions and finally combine the two proms?
Chicago at the Crossroad
While gun violence was on the decline in most major US cities, why did it continue to increase in Chicago's segregated communities? What is known about the systems that created the problem, the laws that isolated it, and the policies that abandoned it? Using dramatic footage, including interviews with residents on the front lines over the last 15 years, this documentary opens a rare historical window into the systematic creation of poverty stricken communities plagued by gun violence.
Shadrach
In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is a violation of strict Virginia law.
White Men Can't Jump
Two street basketball hustlers try to con each other, then team up for a bigger score.
Rosewood
Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.
The Intruder
A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble--trouble he soon finds he can't control.
Boycott
This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Raisin in the Sun
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.
Paradise: Love
On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as "Sugar Mamas" —European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise, moving from beach to beach.
The Help
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
Texas Rangers
Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. With a few veterans of the war, most of the recruits are young men who have little or no experience with guns or policing crime.
Hairspray
'Pleasantly plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using her fame to speak out for the causes she believes in, most of all integration. In doing so, she earns the wrath of the show's former star, Amber Von Tussle, as well as Amber's manipulative, pro-segregation parents. The rivalry comes to a head as Amber and Tracy vie for the title of Miss Auto Show 1963.
Glory Road
In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.
The World Unseen
A drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.
The Long Walk Home
Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.
Hidden Figures
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
One Night in Miami...
In the aftermath of Cassius Clay's defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to change the course of history in the segregated South.
The Walk
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.
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these forever lost, especially the thousands of pictures he shot in the U.S. Told through Cole’s own writings, the stories of those closest to him, and the lens of his uncompromising work, the film is a reintroduction of a pivotal Black artist to a new generation and will unravel the mystery of his missing negatives.
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In 1946, Branch Rickey, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, took a stand against Major League Baseball's infamous color line when he signed Jackie Robinson to the team. The deal put both men in the crosshairs of the public, the press and even other players. Facing unabashed racism from every side, Robinson was forced to demonstrate tremendous courage and let his talent on the field wins over fans and his teammates – silencing his critics and forever changing the world by changing the game of baseball.
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Ernest R. Dickerson
Director
Raven-Symoné
as
Brianna McCallister
Aisha Tyler
as
Desiree Howard
William Ragsdale
as
Earl Randall
Harold Sylvester
as
Mr. Howard
Brian Schodorf
Director
Jesse Jackson
as
Self
Darrell Larson
as
Father
Martin Sheen
as
Narrator
Andie MacDowell
as
Trixie
Harvey Keitel
as
Vernon
Woody Harrelson
as
Billy Hoyle
Kadeem Hardison
as
Junior
Wesley Snipes
as
Sidney Deane
John Singleton
Director
Elise Neal
as
Beulah
Robert Patrick
as
Lover
Michael Rooker
as
Sheriff Walker
Don Cheadle
as
Sylvester Carrier
Roger Corman
Director
William Shatner
as
Adam Cramer
Leo Gordon
as
Sam Griffin
Robert Emhardt
as
Verne Shipman
Clark Johnson
Director
Jeffrey Wright
as
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Robert C. Treveiler
as
Jail Clerk
CCH Pounder
as
Jo Ann Robinson
Bill Erwin
as
Loading Dock Man #2
Ivan Dixon
as
Asagai
Diana Sands
as
Beneatha Younger
Ruby Dee
as
Ruth Younger
Maria Hofstätter
as
Schwester Teresa
Tate Taylor
Director
Jessica Chastain
as
Celia Foote
Bryce Dallas Howard
as
Hilly Holbrook
Emma Stone
as
Skeeter Phelan
Steve Miner
Director
Ashton Kutcher
as
George Durham
James Van Der Beek
as
Lincoln Rogers Dunnison
Tom Skerritt
as
Richard Dukes
John Waters
Director
James Adam Tucker
as
Cop
Sonny Bono
as
Franklin von Tussle
Bill Lee Brown
as
Governor's Mansion Pickets
Jerry Stiller
as
Wilbur Turnblad
Jon Voight
as
Adolph Rupp
Emily Deschanel
as
Mary Haskins
Valeri Ross
as
Mrs. Cager
Ritchie Montgomery
as
Texas Western Booster
Amber Rose Revah
as
Begum
Colin Moss
as
De Witt
Scot Cooper
as
James Winston
Bernard White
as
Mr. Harjan
Ving Rhames
as
Herbert Cotter
Whoopi Goldberg
as
Odessa Cotter
Dylan Baker
as
Tunker Thompson
Philip Sterling
as
Winston
Theodore Melfi
Director
Kevin Costner
as
Al Harrison
Glen Powell
as
John Glenn
Kirsten Dunst
as
Vivian Mitchell
Regina King
Director
Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
as
Drew 'Bundini' Brown
Aldis Hodge
as
Jim Brown
Christopher Gorham
as
Johnny Carson
Jason Ament
as
Miami Referee
Jeremy Piven
as
Johnny Bunkley
Malcolm McDowell
as
McLaughlin
Sally Kirkland
as
Mrs. Kelley
Jay Huguley
as
Riley
Keith Stanfield
as
Ernest Cole
Brian Helgeland
Director
Harrison Ford
as
Branch Rickey
Mark Harelik
as
Herb Pennock
Henry G. Sanders
as
Max
Nicole Beharie
as
Rachel Robinson
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