The Best of Enemies (2019)

The Color Purple (1985)

Summary: A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

Release Date: February 07, 1986

Genre: Drama

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Menno Meyjes

, Alice Walker

Runtime: 2 h 34 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Warner Bros., Amblin Entertainment, The Guber-Peters Company

Distributor: Warner Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), CBS, Warner Bros. Television, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 98,467,863

Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

Summary: In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.

Release Date: November 01, 2019

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Edward Norton

Writers: Edward Norton

, Jonathan Lethem

Runtime: 2 h 24 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Class 5 Films, Madison Wells

Distributor: Warner Bros., HBO Max, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 26,000,000

Domestic: $ 9,277,736

International: $ 9,300,000

Detroit (2017)

Summary: Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.

Release Date: August 04, 2017

Genres: Drama, Crime, History

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

Writer: Mark Boal

Runtime: 2 h 23 min

MPAA: R

Production: Annapurna Pictures, First Light Production, Page 1

Distributor: Annapurna Distribution, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Hulu

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 34,000,000

Domestic: $ 16,790,139

International: $ 6,564,961

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)

Summary: Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Release Date: January 31, 1974

Genres: Drama, History

Director: John Korty

Writers: Tracy Keenan Wynn

, Ernest J. Gaines

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: Tomorrow Entertainment

Distributor: Starmaker Entertainment, Sony Wonder, Classic Media, Anderson Digital, HBO Max, Broadway Video, The Criterion Channel, UAV Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Burden (2018)

Summary: When a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan opens in a South Carolina town, the idealistic Reverend Kennedy strives to keep the peace even as he urges the group's Grand Dragon to disavow his racist past.

Release Date: February 21, 2020

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Andrew Heckler

Writer: Andrew Heckler

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bill Kenwright Films, Cool House, The Fyzz Facility

Distributor: Showtime 2

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 139,270

International: $ 310,919

Green Book (2018)

Summary: A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver for an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.

Release Date: November 16, 2018

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Peter Farrelly

Writers: Nick Vallelonga

, Brian Hayes Currie

, Peter Farrelly

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Participant, Dreamworks Pictures, Innisfree Pictures, Cinetic Media, Alibaba Pictures, Louisiana Entertainment, Wessler Entertainment

Countries: United States, China

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 23,000,000

Domestic: $ 85,080,171

International: $ 236,672,485

Crash (2004)

Summary: Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.

Release Date: May 06, 2005

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Paul Haggis

Writers: Paul Haggis

, Bobby Moresco

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bob Yari Productions, DEJ Productions, Blackfriars Bridge Films, Harris Company, ApolloProScreen Filmproduktion, Bull's Eye Entertainment, Incognito Pictures

Distributor: Lions Gate Films, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, Germany, Australia

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,500,000

Domestic: $ 54,580,300

International: $ 43,829,761

The Great Debaters (2007)

Summary: A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.

Release Date: December 25, 2007

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: Denzel Washington

Writers: Robert Eisele

, Jeffrey Porro

, Tony Scherman

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Harpo Films, Marshall Production, Roth Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 30,236,407

International: $ 35,149

Selma (2014)

Summary: A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.

Release Date: January 09, 2015

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Ava DuVernay

Writer: Paul Webb

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Pathé, Harpo Films, Plan B Entertainment, Cloud Eight Films, Ingenious Media, Celador Films, Pathe UK

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, KVH Media Group, Paramount Home Entertainment, CBS

Countries: United States, United Kingdom, France

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 52,076,908

International: $ 15,705,854

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Summary: Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, Colorado, successfully infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan branch aided by a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.

Release Date: August 10, 2018

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Biography

Director: Spike Lee

Writers: Charlie Wachtel

, David Rabinowitz

, Kevin Willmott

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

MPAA: R

Production: Focus Features, Legendary Entertainment, Perfect World Pictures, Monkeypaw Productions, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks

Distributor: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United States, China

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 49,275,340

International: $ 44,138,369

A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Summary: A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

Release Date: May 18, 1961

Genre: Drama

Director: Daniel Petrie

Writer: Lorraine Hansberry

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Columbia Pictures

Distributor: CBS, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,500,000

Crazy in Alabama (1999)

Summary: An abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.

Release Date: October 22, 1999

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Director: Antonio Banderas

Writer: Mark Childress

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Columbia Pictures, Green Moon Productions, Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Company Medien KG

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Mill Creek Entertainment

Countries: Germany, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,005,840

Hairspray (2007)

Summary: Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.

Release Date: July 20, 2007

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical

Director: Adam Shankman

Writers: Leslie Dixon

, John Waters

, Mark O'Donnell

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: PG

Production: New Line Cinema, Ingenious Film Partners, Zadan / Meron Productions

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Netflix, New Line Home Video

Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 75,000,000

Domestic: $ 118,946,291

International: $ 84,681,462

Imperium (2016)

Summary: A young FBI agent, eager to prove himself in the field, goes undercover as a white supremacist.

Release Date: August 19, 2016

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Daniel Ragussis

Writers: Michael German

, Joe Turner Lin

, Daniel Ragussis

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Atomic Features, Green-Light International, Grindstone Entertainment Group

Distributor: KVH Media Group

Country: United States

Language: English

Antebellum (2020)

Summary: Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.

Release Date: September 18, 2020

Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Directors: Gerard Bush

, Christopher Renz

Writers: Gerard Bush

, Christopher Renz

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: R

Production: Lionsgate, QC Entertainment, Lionsgate Productions

Country: United States

Language: English