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Rated: R Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: A young lawyer moves to a small town to pursue his career, only to find that beneath the seeming quiet of the village lies mystery and corruption.
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Cast: Colin Firth, Ammina Annabi, Donald Pleasance, Nicol Williamson, Michael Gough. Directed by Leslie Megahey.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland.
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Cast: Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Johnson, Janet McTeer, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. Directed by Rodrigo Garcia.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Discrimination ∙ Gender |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: After being released from prison, a former white supremacist tries to prevent his younger brother from making the same mistakes.
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Cast: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Lien, Ethan Suplee, Fairuza Balk. Directed by Tony Kaye.
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Categories: Discrimination ∙ Racism |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 Disc Set) 5 hours, 51 min.
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Plot: At the onset of the AIDS crisis in 1980s New York City, a group of interconnected characters experience divine intervention.
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Cast: Al Pacino, Meryl streep, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeffrey Wright. Directed by Mike Nichols.
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Categories: Television ∙ History ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic worldview. Based on the true story of an American Nazi Party leader in the 1960s.
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Cast: Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Theresa Russel, Billy Zane. Directed by Henry Bean.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Discrimination ∙ Documentary |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: A Catholic priest and a young English teacher find themselves caught in the 1994 Rwandan genocide where they must choose whether to face death with the thousands of Tutsis or flee for safety.
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Cast: John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz. Directed by Michael Canton-Jones.
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Categories: International ∙ Human Rights ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 94 min.
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Plot: The eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp carries on a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence with startling and unexpected consequences.
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Cast: Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend. Directed by Mark herman.
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Categories: War ∙ Children ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 118 min.
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Plot: The story of Teena Brandon, a cross-dressing youth who preferred life as her male identity, Brandon Teena.
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Cast: Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III,
Alicia Goranson. Directed by Kimberly Peirce.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Women ∙ Discrimination |
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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 84 min.
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Plot: A man is about to be fired, but the spreading rumor about his homosexuality changes it all, as his company doesn't want to be sued for sexual discrimination. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Gerard Depardieu, Thierry Lhermiette. Directed by Frances Veber.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Discrimination ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 122 min.
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Plot: The volatile intersection of a multiethnic cast as they careen in and out of each other's lives.
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Cast: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Eposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillippe, Larenz Tate. Directed by Paul Haggis.
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Categories: Discrimination ∙ Racism ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
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Cast: Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roshdy Zem, Sami Bouajila. Directed by Rachid Bouchareb.
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Categories: War ∙ Discrimination ∙ International |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 130 min.
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Plot: An African-American soul singing trio rise to the pop charts in the early 1960s.
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Cast: Jamie Foxx, Beyonce Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover, Anika Noni Rose, Keith Robinson, Jennifer Hudson. Directed by Bill Condon.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Discrimination ∙ Musical |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 140 min.
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Plot: A 14-year-old's life is torn apart during World War II when he is sent to a concentration camp. In Hungarian with English subtitles.
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Cast: Marcell Nagy, Aron Dimeny, Andras M. Kecskes, Jozsef Gyabronka, Endre Harkanyi, Daniel Craig. Directed by Lajos Koltai.
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Categories: War ∙ Foreign ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: PG Stars: *** 1/2
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Format: DVD 118 min. B&W
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Plot: A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Cast: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield. Directed by Elia Kazan.
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Categories: Discrimination ∙ Racism ∙ Religion |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 131 min.
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Plot: The widow of a murdered civil rights leader and a district attorney struggle to finally bring the culprit to justice.
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Cast: Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Medgar Evers, Whoopi Goldberg, Craig T. Nelson. Directed by Rob Reiner.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Discrimination ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 128 min.
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Plot: Dispossessed farmers migrate to California to escape the dustbowl of Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
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Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin. Directed by John Ford.
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Categories: Poverty ∙ Discrimination ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 124 min.
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Plot: In 1935, a professor at Wiley College Texas inspires students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.
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Cast: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett. Directed by Denzel Washington.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Discrimination ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: By becoming the first black heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson must deal with the racism and hatred of white America.
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Cast: James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Lou Gilbert, Hal Holbrook. Directed by Martin Ritt.
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Categories: Racism ∙ Discrimination ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar.
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Cast: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat. Directed by Jeremy Saulnier.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Musical ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: The Corny Collins television dance show holds auditions for the chance to star in the show and through perseverance and the support of her friends and family Tracy becomes the atypical star of the show.
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Cast: John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Queen Latifah. Directed by Adam Shankman.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Discrimination ∙ Musical |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A humble hotel manager shelters more than a thousand "guests" from tribal genocide.
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Cast: Xolani Mali, Don Cheadle, Desmond Dube, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Tony Kgoroge, Rosie Motene, Neil McCarthy, Kid Sitholo, Nick Nolte, Fana Mokoena, Jeremiah Ndlovu, Sophie Okonedo. Directed by Terry George.
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Categories: International ∙ Human Rights ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: A dramatization of a town forced to confront itself when Matthew Shepard is found savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die in Laramie, Wyoming.
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Cast: Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi, Laura Linney, Summer Phoenix. Directed by Moisés Kaufman.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Discrimination ∙ Sexuality |
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Rated: NR Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 116 min. B&W
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Plot: The bio-epic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Cast: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden. Directed by William Dieterle.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Government ∙ Discrimination |
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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: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 142 min.
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Plot: Coal miners, struggling to form a union, are determined to bring the local, Black, and Italian groups together.
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Cast: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham. Directed by John Sayles.
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Categories: Employment ∙ Discrimination ∙ Racism |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 145 min.
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Plot: An impoverished girl becomes a renowned geisha, trained in all the artistic and social skills she must master in order to survive in her society.
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Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Kaori Momoi, Gong Li. Directed by Rob Marshall.
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Categories: Women ∙ Gender ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 131 min.
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Plot: A wealthy merchant takes a loan from a moneylender, upon security of a pound of flesh.
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Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Jeremy Brett, Michael Jayston. Directed by Jonathan Miller, John Sichel.
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Categories: Discrimination ∙ Contracts ∙ Television |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 138 min.
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Plot: In 16th century Venice, a merchant defaults on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender because of a friend with romantic ambitions and the vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
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Cast: Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins. Directed by Michael Radford.
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Categories: Discrimination ∙ Contracts ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 128 min.
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Plot: Ernesto "Che" Guevara circumnavigates South America on a thrilling and dangerous road trip.
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Cast: Gael García Bernal, Mía Maestro, Rodrigo de la Serna. Directed by Walter Salles.
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Categories: History ∙ Discrimination ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 119 min.
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Plot: When an AIDS victim and attorney is fired from his law firm, he hires a local attorney to represent him against his former employer.
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Cast: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Joanne Woodard. Directed by Jonathan Demme.
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Categories: Employment ∙ Discrimination ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 283 min.
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Plot: Queen is the daughter of a slave and a plantation owner, during the turbulent decades of the antebellum South, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
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Cast: Ann-Margaret, Patricia Clarkson, Tim Daly, Danny Glover, Raven-Simone, Martin Sheen, Halle Berry, Ossie Davis. Directed by John Erman.
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Categories: Racism ∙ Discrimination ∙ Family |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 153 min.
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Plot: The triumphant story of one of America's true musical geniuses.
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Cast: Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Clifton Powell, Harry Lennix, Terrence Dashon Howard, Larenz Tate, Richard Schiff, Regina King. Directed by Taylor Hackford.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Entertainment ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 73 min.
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Plot: The definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive, on the defining characteristic of our time - the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few.
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Cast: Peter Hutchinsn, Kelly Nyks. Directed by Noam Chomsky.
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Categories: Discrimination ∙ Biography ∙ Economics |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD (2 disc set) 197 min. B&W/Color
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Plot: A man hires cheap Jewish labor during WWII, turning his factory into a refuge from the Nazis. Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagalle, Embeth Davitz. Directed by Steven Spielberg.
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Categories: Discrimination ∙ Human Rights ∙ International |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: The secret U.S. abduction of a suspected terrorist leads to a wave of attacks in New York that in turn lead to the declaration of martial law.
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Cast: Denzel Washington, Annette Benning, Bruce Willis, Tony Shalhoub, Sami Bouajila, David Proval. Directed by Edward Zwick.
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Categories: Government ∙ National Security ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 132 min.
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Plot: Four unwitting heroes unite to overthrow a corrupt sheriff and his posse in the sleepy town of Silverado.
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Cast: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Rosanna Arquette, John Cleese, Kevin Costner, Brian Dennehy, Danny Glover, Jeff Goldblum, Linda Hunt. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan.
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Categories: Western ∙ Discrimination ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 127 min.
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Plot: A murder trial has upset the quiet community of San Piedro, and now this tranquil village has become the center of controversy.
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Cast: Ethan Hawke, Youki Koduh, Reeve Carney. Directed by Scott Hicks.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Romance ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: Two men defied the rules in 1940s Baltimore and started a medical revolution that saved the lives of thousands of infants.
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Cast: Alan Rickman, Mos Def, Kyra Sedgewick, Gabrielle Union, Charles Dutton, Mary Staurt Masterson. Directed by Joseph Sargent.
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Categories: Medical ∙ Racism ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: Story of Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East Los Angeles' Garfield High School, who inspires his Hispanic inner-city students to become math whizzes.
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Cast: Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosana De Soto, Andy Garcia, Estelle Harris. Directed by Ramon Menendez.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Education ∙ Discrimination |
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Rated: NR Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 115 min.
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Plot: A successful New York lawyer returns to rural Louisiana to investigate the lynching death of his childhood friend.
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Cast: Kent Faulcon, Berlinda Tolbert, David Raibon, Robn Bottitta, Christopher May, Leon Morenzie, Sam Jones. Directed by Kyle Schickner.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Discrimination ∙ Gender |
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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: Blu-ray/DVD 129 min. B&W
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Plot: Adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a six-year-old's perspective of how her father defends a young black man against a false rape charge in their small Southern town.
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Cast: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford, John Megna, Brock Peters, Collin Wilcox, Robert Duvall. Directed by Robert Mulligan.
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Categories: Racism ∙ Discrimination ∙ Drama |
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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: PG-13 Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: A small New Zealand village faces a crisis when the chiefdom, bound by tradition to go to a male heir, falls to a twelve-year old girl.
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Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Grant Roa. Directed by Niki Caro.
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Categories: Women ∙ Discrimination ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: Two activist lawyers seek to free a group of Mexican-Americans convicted of murder on circumstantial evidence.
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Cast: Edward James Olmos, Charles Aidman, John Anderson, Tyne Daly, Daniel Valdez. Directed by Luis Valdez.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Racism ∙ Discrimination |
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The Wolf Law Library welcomes your suggestions for additions to the Feature Film Collection! If there is a law-related movie you feel we might be missing, please submit your suggestion to the Circulation & Reserve Desk at lawcir@wm.edu.
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