Keyword: racial prejudice

Blackballed

6.9

2020

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The cultural context of race in America through the lens of one of the most explosive events in recent sports history.

42

7.5

2013

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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.

The Nightingale

7.3

2018

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Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

The Alcove

4.8

1985

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An English soldier (Cliver) returns home from the Zulu war with the daughter of a tribal king (Gemser) as his slave (a gift that he was given for saving the kings life). The spoils of war, ya know? While hes been gone, his wife has been having an affair with the female housekeeper (Belle). Not at all pleased with being a slave, the Ebony princess notices the mistress of the house engaging in a quick bit of foreplay with the housekeeper and plots her revenge starting with the seduction of the mistress. Jealousy spreads like wildfire and before you know it, she has turned the household into a lustful frenzy of sex and hatred.

Something the Lord Made

8.3

2004

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A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

Mississippi Masala

6.6

1991

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An ethnic Indian family is expelled from Idi Amins Uganda in 1972 and lives in Mississippi 17 years later. The dad sues Uganda to get his property back. The grown daughter falls in love with a Black man.

Serial (Bad) Weddings

7.7

2014

Movie

HD

A French Catholic couple sees their life get turned upside-down when their four daughters get married to men of different nationalities and religions.

Fremont

7

2023

Movie

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Donya works for a Chinese fortune cookie factory. Formerly a translator for the U.S. military, she struggles to put her life back in order. In a moment of sudden revelation, she decides to send out a special message in a cookie.

A Raisin in the Sun

8.3

1961

Movie

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A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

Come Back, Africa

6.5

1959

Movie

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Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.

Gentleman's Agreement

7.4

1947

Movie

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A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.

In This Our Life

7.4

1942

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The day before her wedding, a pampered young woman absconds with her sisters husband; in retaliation, her sister begins seeing the womans former fiancé.

Sayonara

7.5

1957

Movie

HD

A US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer.