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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: A notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Spike Lee.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 102 min.
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Plot: When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army.
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Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Alan Hale. Directed by Michael Curitz and William Keighley.
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Categories: Action ∙ Politics ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 72 min.
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Plot: A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong when corrupt pigs hijack it for their personal gain.
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Cast: Gordan Heath, Maurice Denham. Directed by Joy Batchelor, John Halas.
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Categories: Civil Rights ∙ Government ∙ Animation |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 110 min.
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Plot: As the civil rights movement heats up, a former slave recants her memories of the black experience of working on a southern plantation to fetching water for soldiers in the Civil War to her views on the current and turbulent equal rights movement.
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Cast: Cicely Tyson, Barbara Chaney, Richard Dysart, Katherine Helmond, Michael Murphy. Directed by John Korty.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Women |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 177 min.
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Plot: William Wallace, a Scottish common man, unites fellow Scots in their fight for freedom from English rule at the end of the 13th century. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Cast: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan. Directed by Mel Gibson.
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Categories: History ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: An irresponsible, drug-addicted, recently impregnated woman finds herself in the middle of an abortion debate.
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Cast: Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz, Burt Reynolds, Tippi Hedren. Directed by Alexander Payne.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Ethics ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 118 min.
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Plot: The travails of a working-class Irish band bringing soul music to the people of Dublin.
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Cast: Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle Kennedy. Directed by Alan Parker.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 53 min.
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Plot: A 1963 civil rights crisis unfolds at an Alabama school.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Robert Drew.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ History |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: This espionage thriller begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents.
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Cast: Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Jesper Christensen. Directed by John Madden.
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Categories: Drama ∙ War ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 102 min.
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Plot: An African-American private detective is hired to find a white woman who frequents the black Jazz clubs in 1948 L.A.
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Cast: Denzel Washington, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle. Directed by Carl Franklin.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 67 min.
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Plot: Explores First Amendment Rights through headline grabbing moments when our Constitution's integrity has been tested.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Chris Hegedus and Nick Doob.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: The front man for a group of black listed writers comes under scrutiny during the McCarthy era.
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Cast: Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Joshua Shelley, Andrea Marcovicci. Directed by Martin Ritt.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Government |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 187 min.
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Plot: The biography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, who rose from a small-time lawyer to India's spiritual leader through his philosophy of non-violent protest. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Cast: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Martin Sheen. Directed by Richard Attenborough.
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Categories: Civil Rights ∙ Drama ∙ Government |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 133 min.
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Plot: A witnesses to a fatal shooting at the hands of a police officer faces pressure from all sides of the community.
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Cast: Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby. Directed by George Tillman Jr..
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Categories: Drama ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: Two young women accuse nine black youths of rape in the segregated South.
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Cast: Anthony Mackie, Bill Sage, Azura Skye, Bill Smitrovich. Directed by Terry Green.
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Categories: Racism ∙ Jurisprudence ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 146 min.
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Plot: An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960's decides to write a book detailing the African-American maid's point of view on the white families for which they work.
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Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Cicely Tyson, Sissy Spacek. Directed by Tate Taylor.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: Explores the tragic story of Viola Liuzzo, the only white woman killed during the civil rights movement.
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Cast: Narration by Stockard Channing . Directed by Irwin Winkler.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Women |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.
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Cast: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata. Directed by Taika Waititi.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
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Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte. Directed by Raoul Peck.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ History |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 137 min.
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Plot: A renowned civil rights defense attorney works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
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Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall, Brie Larsen. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton.
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Categories: Death Penalty ∙ Drama ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 185 min.
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Plot: Chronicles the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Cast: Readings by Joanne Woodward, James Earl Jones, and Paul Newman. Directed by Sidney Lumet and Joseph Mankie.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Biography ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: Examines the tumultuous period after the verdict in the Rodney King trial through rarely seen archival footage.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Daniel Lindsay & T. J. Martin.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 123 min.
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Plot: The events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.
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Cast: Forest Whitaker, James MacAvoy, Kerry Washington, Simon McBurney, Gillian Anderson. Directed by Kevin Macdonald.
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Categories: History ∙ International ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Cast: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz,. Directed by Richard Pearce.
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Categories: Civil Rights ∙ Discrimination ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 77 min. B&W
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Plot: The 1950s case of a white man and a black woman who were convicted by the state of Virginia for marrying across racial lines.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Nancy Buirski.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 2004 min.
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Plot: On May 2, 1963, the children of Birmingham, Alabama took to the streets to challenge segregation.
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Cast: Narration by Nick LaTour. Directed by Robert Houston.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ History |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: In 1964, two FBI agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance and murder of three civil rights activists.
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Cast: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey. Directed by Alan Parker.
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Categories: Civil Rights ∙ History ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 140 min.
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Plot: Mayan peasants organize in an effort to improve their lives. In Spanish, Maya, and English, with English subtitles.
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Cast: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, David Villalpando, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, Alicia del Lago. Directed by Gregory Nava.
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Categories: Civil Rights ∙ Foreign ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: Seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion to reminisce about the good old days.
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Cast: Bruce MacDonald, Maggie Renzi, Adam LeFevre, Maggie Cousineau, Gordon Clapp, Jean Passanante, Karen Trott. Directed by John Sayles.
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Categories: Civil Rights ∙ Government ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: The lone survivors of a ship wreck find themselves in the company of a Princess, who purchases a survivor and plans to make him her husband.
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Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Anthony Quinn, Dona Drake. Directed by David Butler.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 128 min.
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Plot: A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.
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Cast: David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Carmen Ejogo, Giovanni Ribisi, Alessandro Nivola, Cuba Gooding, Jr.. Directed by Ava DuVernay.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Civil Rights ∙ History |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 186 min.
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Plot: Dramatization of the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
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Cast: Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster, Richard Kiley. Directed by George Stevens Jr..
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Categories: Supreme Court ∙ History ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 53 min.
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Plot: Story of a secret spy agency formed by the state of Mississippi to preserve segregation.
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Cast: Bob Moses, Governor William Winter, Lawrence Guyot, Jerry Mitchell. Directed by Dawn Porter.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: A longtime criminal parolee suffers indignity and harassment from a sadistic parole officer who undermines his determination to go straight.
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Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Harry Dean Stanton, Gary Busey, Theresa Russell, M. Emmet Walsh. Directed by Ulu Grosbard.
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Categories: Civil Rights ∙ Drama ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 57 min.
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Plot: Fashions a fascinating discovery of the lost story behind a true American classic poem entitled "Strange Fruit".
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Cast: Narratorated by Dorothy Thigpen . Directed by Joel Katz.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ History ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 150 min.
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Plot: A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
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Cast: Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey. Directed by Joe Schumacher.
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Categories: Civil Rights ∙ Discrimination ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 80 min.
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Plot: Chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.
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Cast: John Trudell, robert Redford, Jockson Browne, Kris Kristofferson, Amy Ray, Bonnie Raitt, Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard. Directed by Heather Rae.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ Government |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A former civil rights lawyer renews his commitment when he and an idealistic assistant defend a Korean inmate who was framed for a Chinatown murder eight years earlier.
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Cast: James Woods, Robert Downey, Jr., Margaret Colin, Kurtwood Smith. Directed by Joseph Ruben.
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Categories: Civil Rights ∙ Drama ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: A group of African American pilots overcome racist opposition to become one of the finest US fighter groups in World War II.
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Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Chris McDonald. Directed by Robert Markowitz.
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Categories: Discrimination ∙ War ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: A feature documentary chronicling the attempted takeover of a small town in North Dakota by notorious white supremacist Craig Cobb.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Micheal Beach Nicoles and Christopher K. Walker.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: Explores the history and legacy of the Brown vs. Board of Education concept of "separate but equal" school segregation was unconstitutional.
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Cast: Narrated by Jeffrey Wright. Directed by Peter Gilbert.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Civil Rights ∙ History |
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