Keyword: racism

Things We Won't Say About Race That Are True

8.3

2015

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British documentary on race in the modern world.

Cost Of A Soul

5.3

2010

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Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and DD Davis return home from Iraq to the slum neighborhood they grew up in. Tommy returns to his wife, Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant to escape a life of crime. Tommy meets his disabled six year-old daughter, Hope, for the first time, and she begins to melt his frozen heart. While DD struggles to make an honest living, his older brother, Darnell, has risen to become the neighborhood kingpin. DD faces the pressure to save his younger brother, James, from following in Darnell’s dangerous footsteps. Tommy and DD find themselves trapped in the same slum they joined the military to escape. As they struggle for redemption, their own families become entangled in a web of crime, corruption and violence.

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

7.1

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.

Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times

8

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.

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

5.9

2020

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Discover how the advent of the automobile brought new mobility and freedom for African Americans but also exposed them to discrimination and deadly violence, and how that history resonates today.

The Uncomfortable Truth

6.9

2017

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When the award-winning filmmaker of An Ordinary Hero, Loki Mulholland, dives into the 400 year history of institutional racism in America he is confronted with the shocking reality that his family helped start it all from the very beginning.

Farmingville

7.6

2004

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Documentary on the attempted murder of two Mexican day laborers in Farmingville, New York.

Black Terrorist

5.2

1978

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A marauding band of black terrorists hold the inhabitants of a tiny desert settlement hostage. They murder most of the settlers, but spare a beautiful white woman and her young son. She escapes in a hale of gunfire, then enlists the aid of a machine gun toting soldier of fortune to free her child.

Traffic Stop

5.4

2017

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Traffic Stop tells the story of Breaion King, a 26-year-old African-American school teacher from Austin, Texas, who was stopped for a routine traffic violation that escalated into a dramatic arrest. Caught on police dashcams, King was pulled from her car by the arresting officer, repeatedly thrown to the ground and handcuffed. En route to jail in a squad car, she engaged in a revealing conversation with her escorting officer about race and law enforcement in America. The documentary juxtaposes dashcam footage with scenes from Kings everyday life, offering a fuller portrait of the woman caught up in this unsettling encounter.

Southern Rites

6.6

2015

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One year after the town merges its segregated proms, photographer Gillian Laub documents a divisive murder case in a small Georgia town.