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Summary: To a soundtrack the mixes gospel with hip-hop, this film tells the story of the heroic but often overlooked protests by black and white civil rights supporters in 1964 in Saint Augustine, Florida, and the inequalities that persist...
Release Date: August 22, 2008
Runtime: 1 h 23 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 120,000
Domestic: $ 52,166
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Summary: Interviews, archival footage, and filmed performances highlight the role of music in the South African struggle against apartheid.
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Domestic: $ 405,331
International: $ 13,610
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Summary: World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
Runtime: 2 h 17 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 25,000,000
Domestic: $ 36,001,502
International: $ 14,900,000
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Summary: The exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon.
Runtime: 1 h 38 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 14,051,361
International: $ 423,931
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Summary: Michael is a high-powered lawyer and Jamal is an angry young man who has been imprisoned after years of abuse in the foster care system. Together they have to overcome their differences to find justice and expose the foster care s...
Runtime: 1 h 49 min

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 19,873
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Summary: When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, she embarks on a journey to push for the first-ever U.S. legislation against bias in algorithms that impact...
Runtime: 1 h 26 min
MPAA: TV-MA

Domestic: $ 10,236
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Summary: The story of Thurgood Marshall, the crusading lawyer who would become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.
Runtime: 1 h 58 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 12,000,000
Domestic: $ 10,051,659
International: $ 65,157
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Summary: Renowned academic and author Noam Chomsky elucidates 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power that have led to unprecedented inequality and the hollowing out of the American middle class.
Runtime: 1 h 13 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 130,152
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Summary: 1964. Lily, a lonely teenager, flees from her home and reaches a small town in South Carolina. Once there, she finds herself in the company of the Boatwright sisters who introduce her to a new world.
Runtime: 1 h 54 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 11,000,000
Domestic: $ 37,770,162
International: $ 2,182,275
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Summary: An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily b...
Runtime: 2 h 26 min
MPAA: PG-13

Countries: United States, India
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 25,000,000
Domestic: $ 169,708,112
International: $ 52,094,074
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Summary: When barrio leader Henry Reyna and his friends are unjustly convicted on circumstantial evidence, activist lawyers Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant racially motivated miscarriage of justice to win them their f...
Release Date: January 01, 1982
Genres: Drama, Musical
Runtime: 1 h 43 min
MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 2,700,000
Domestic: $ 3,256,082
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Summary: The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.
Runtime: 2 h 32 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 40,000,000
Domestic: $ 75,331,600
International: $ 48,639,776
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Summary: This film tells the story of the massive police raid of Stonewall in June 1969.
Runtime: 1 h 20 min
MPAA: Unrated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 128,203
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Summary: A Louisiana football legend struggles to deal with life's complexities after his college career is over.
Runtime: 2 h 07 min
MPAA: 18A

Distributor: HBO Max
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 22,000,000
Domestic: $ 12,638,294
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Summary: Offered a plea deal by the FBI, William O'Neal infiltrates the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party to gather intelligence on Chairman Fred Hampton.
Runtime: 2 h 06 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 26,000,000
Domestic: $ 5,478,009
International: $ 2,000,000
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Summary: A documentary that celebrates Rick Hall, the founder of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and the signature sound he developed in songs such as "I'll Take You There", "Brown Sugar", and "When a Man Loves a Woman".
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
MPAA: PG

Production: Ear Goggles
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 696,241
International: $ 13,174
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Summary: A group of homosexual people try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the major gay rights movement.
Runtime: 1 h 39 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Domestic: $ 692,400
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Summary: A scorching indictment of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion & passage of California's Proposition 8 and the Mormon religion's secretive, decades-long campaign against LGBT human rights.
Runtime: 1 h 20 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 2,500,000
Domestic: $ 100,280
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Summary: Chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists.
Release Date: December 05, 2008
Runtime: 1 h 49 min
MPAA: 14A

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 12,000,000
Domestic: $ 8,195,551
International: $ 688,093
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Summary: In Greenwich Village there is Debt Slavery and prostitution at NYU due to high tuition and fees for students. NYU and other Land Lords are changing the character of the Bohemian Village due to outrageous rents and pass along real ...
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Runtime: 1 h 29 min

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,780