Keyword: racism

The Final Quarter

7.8

2019

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Australian documentary filmmaker Ian Darling re-examines the incidents that marked the final 3 years of footballer Adam Goodes playing career.

Collisions

5.6

2018

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Twelve-year-old Itans promising life in San Francisco is turned upside down when she comes home from school, with her younger brother, to find her mother missing. Suddenly she must rely on her estranged uncle, a big rig truck driver.

Six Rounds

6.3

2017

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Amongst the 2011 London riots, a former boxer must choose between his past or a new future.

The Murder of Hi Good

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2012

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The Murder of Hi Good is a true-crime revisionist western set in Northern California, 1870. It details the eventual murder of California’s most notorious Indian hunter; Hiram Good. Most historians believe that his indentured servant “Indian Ned” killed him, a native boy whom he’d raised as a son. It’s suspected that Ned was influenced by the nearby Mill Creek Indians or “diggers”, who were struggling to eke out an existence on their ancestral lands.

I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You

6.7

1932

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Betty Boop and friends meet Louis Armstrong on a jungle safari.

The Long Shadow

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2017

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When filmmaker and investigative journalist Frances Causey, a daughter of the South, set out to explore the continuing racial divisions in the US, what she discovered was that the politics of slavery didnt end with the Civil War. In an astonishingly candid look at the United States original sin, The Long Shadow traces slaverys history from Americas founding up through its insidious ties to racism today.

Kid 'in' Africa

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1933

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Shirley has gone to Africa to civilize the cannibals; something she is able to do with the assistance of Diperzan.

College Kickboxers

5.1

1991

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A college freshman who trains in martial arts is beaten up at work by a racist gang. His co-worker, a Chinese cook, beats the gang up and trains the young man in kung fu. When a tournament is to be held, the teacher tells the student that he will not teach him for money. However, when the gang beats up the students best friend, the student now must make the choice of entering the tournament or keeping the promise to his teacher.

Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn

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2020

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A look at the events surrounding the murder of Yusuf Hawkins, a black teenager in Brooklyn, who was killed in by a group of white youths.

Trouble Behind

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1991

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During World War I, African-Americans worked on the railroad near Corbin, Kentucky. When whites returned from the war, there was conflict. Whites sought their former jobs and positions in the community. In 1919, a race riot occurred. Whites put the African-Americans on railroad cars and ran them out of town. In Trouble Behind, members of the Corbin community speak out on the issue. The filmmakers also interview former members of the Corbin, which at the time of filming had only one black family. Some Corbin residents express confusion as to why African-Americans dont move back. Others openly use racial epithets. Some young adults seem troubled by the racism, past and present. Others dont.

Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times

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2017

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Two strangers meet at key turning points over the course of their lives. The initial conflict gives way to compassion and eventual friendship.

Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas

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2013

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The documentary tracks the divas difficult progress as she emerges from the tough, testosterone-fuelled world of the big bands of the 30s and 40s, to fill nightclubs and saloons across the US in the 50s and early 60s as a force in her own right. Looking at the lives and careers of six individual singers (Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone and Annie Ross), the film not only talks to those who knew and worked with these queens of jazz, but also to contemporary singers who sit on the shoulders of these trailblazing talents without having to endure the pain and hardship it took for them to make their highly individual voices heard above the prejudice of mid-century America.