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Carmen Jones
1954 • Drama • Romance
In this musical set in an all-Black army camp, civilian parachute maker and "hot bundle" Carmen Jones is desired by many of the men. Naturally, she wants Joe, who's engaged to s…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
1959 • Drama • Romance • Science Fiction
Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of mankind seems to have been…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
White Man's Burden
1995 • Drama
The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in a…
Why matched: genres Drama
Buck and the Preacher
1972 • Drama • Adventure • Comedy
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
Odds Against Tomorrow
1959 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Bobby
2006 • Drama
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador…
Why matched: genres Drama
Kansas City
1996 • Drama • Crime
A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Uptown Saturday Night
1974 • Crime • Comedy • Action
Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
King in the Wilderness
2018 • Documentary
A chronicle of the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum.
Why matched: genres Documentary
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
2011 • History • Documentary
Examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in US society from 1967 to 1975. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists in the United States during t…
Why matched: genres History, Documentary
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
2004 • Documentary
This film examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news, and provides an in-depth look at Fox News an…
Why matched: genres Documentary
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006 • Documentary
Spike Lee's award-winning documentary follows the events that preceded and followed Hurricane Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans in 2005.
Why matched: genres Documentary
Island in the Sun
1957 • Drama • Romance
A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Greatest Night in Pop
2024 • Music • Documentary
On a January night in 1985, music's biggest stars gathered to record "We Are the World." This documentary goes behind the scenes of the historic event.
Why matched: genres Music, Documentary
BlacKkKlansman
2018 • Drama • Crime • Comedy
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
The Player
1992 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Prêt-à-Porter
1994 • Comedy
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
Why matched: genres Comedy