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1) Crash
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Language
English
Description
A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles. Crash takes a provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America.
Publisher
Studio S
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
4) Article 15
Publisher
Movie Time Video
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Hindi
Description
Based on the socio-political situation of India, the lives of police officers are followed. In a country where discrimination is everywhere, whether related to race or caste, the officers embark on a journey of acceptance and change.
Publisher
Artist Tribe
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The award-winning documentary film tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, history-making journeys from the late 30s to the present day. The many first-hand accounts of the challenges faced by these talented women provide a glimpse into decades of racism and sexism that have existed in America.
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Earle Slater is a racist ex-con looking to make a quick buck. Johnny Ingram is a nightclub performer with gambling debts. Greed and shared rage against the world turn them into bitter allies when a disgraced ex-cop recruits them to pull a bank heist. But a pivotal moment will send both men toward a cataclysmic outcome that is anything but black and white.
8) 12 angry men
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life is in their hands…death is on their minds. Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley and Jack Klugman lead the distinctive cast in this powerful, classic film. Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion? It's a case of seemingly overwhelming evidence against a teenager accused of killing his father in "one of the best...
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Set against the stirrings of the civil rights movement and a rising wave of burgeoning Black pride, this tells the story of Duff, a railroad section hand who is forced to confront racial prejudice and self-denial when he falls in love with Josie, an educated preacher's daughter. An uplifting story about a man and a woman whose love overcomes racial and class barriers.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on Matt Ruff's novel, this series follows Korean war vet Atticus Freeman, his friend Letitia and his Uncle George on a journey across 1950's Jim Crow America where they face racist terrors and the terrifying monsters of an H.P. Lovecraft paperback.
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following the aftermath of the March 2021 mass shootings at three spas in Atlanta, this film chronicles how the Asian American community came together to fight back against hate. Offering a conversation about race, class and gender, the film takes a deep dive into this critical moment of racial reckoning, exploring the struggles, triumphs and achievements of AAPI communities.
Publisher
Distributed by Xenon Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
Français
Description
The story of an African-American soldier stationed in Europe and the racism he encounters from his fellow soldiers following his idyllic three-day affair with a young white woman. Made by Van Peebles in France, with funding from OPERA--Office de Productions, Editions et Réalisations Artistiques (Paris).
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A riveting inside look at the bold work of the group Life After Hate - an organization founded by former skinheads and neo-Nazis who have dedicated themselves to transforming racist, white-supremacist attitudes. The film places special emphasis on Life After Hate's explicit engagement with issues of masculinity, giving voice to white men who say the primary reason they turned to hate groups was to validate their sense of manhood after experiencing...
15) White Like Me
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Based on the work of Tim Wise, the film explores race and racism in the United States through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy and claims that we've entered a post-racial society, Wise offers a look back at the race-based white entitlement programs that built the American middle class, and argues that our failure as a society to come to terms with this legacy of white privilege continues...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
18) Straight up
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Todd is a hyper-articulate, obsessive compulsive gay twentysomething whose fear of dying alone leads him to a baffling conclusion: he might not be gay after all. When he meets Rory, a whip-smart struggling actress with her own set of insecurities, the two forge a relationship that’s all talk and no sex. Writer-Director-Star James Sweeney delivers a razor sharp rom-com that’s equal parts Classical Hollywood and distinctly 21st century, exploring...
19) Show me a hero
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In an America generations removed from the greatest civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the young mayor of a mid-sized American city is faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town. His attempt to do so tears the entire city apart, paralyzes the municipal government and, ultimately, destroys the mayor and his political future.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Mangrove: Mangrove tells this true story of The Mangrove Nine, who clashed with London police in 1970. The trial that followed was the first judicial acknowledgment of behavior motivated by racial hatred within the Metropolitan Police.
Lovers rock: A single evening at a house party in 1980s West London sets the scene, developing intertwined relationships against a background of violence, romance and music.
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