The Color Purple (1985)

Glory (1989)

Summary: Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.

Release Date: February 16, 1990

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Edward Zwick

Writers: Kevin Jarre

, Lincoln Kirstein

, Peter Burchard

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: R

Production: TriStar Pictures, Freddie Fields Productions

Distributor: TriStar Pictures, CBS, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Pioneer, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Turner Classic Movies (TCM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 26,979,166

Shaft (1971)

Summary: A crime lord hires black private eye, John Shaft, to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Release Date: July 02, 1971

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Director: Gordon Parks

Writers: Ernest Tidyman

, John D.F. Black

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Shaft Productions

Distributor: CBS, MGM Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, Warner Home Video, LowesVideos, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,125,000

Band of Angels (1957)

Summary: Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged Southern belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers that her mother was Black.

Release Date: August 03, 1957

Genres: Drama, Romance, History

Director: Raoul Walsh

Writers: Robert Penn Warren

, John Twist

, Ivan Goff

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., CBS, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

The Great White Hope (1970)

Summary: A Black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

Release Date: October 16, 1970

Genres: Drama, Romance, Sport

Director: Martin Ritt

Writer: Howard Sackler

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Lawrence Turman

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, CBS, CBS/Fox, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,000,000

You've Got Mail (1998)

Summary: Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet, both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.

Release Date: December 18, 1998

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Nora Ephron

Writers: Miklós László

, Nora Ephron

, Delia Ephron

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., CBS, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 65,000,000

Domestic: $ 115,821,495

International: $ 135,000,000

Gandhi (1982)

Summary: The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.

Release Date: February 25, 1983

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Richard Attenborough

Writer: John Briley

Runtime: 3 h 11 min

MPAA: PG

Production: International Film Investors, National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC), Goldcrest Films International

Distributor: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Embassy Television, CBS, Disney Channel, Video Collection International, Pioneer Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, India, United States, South Africa

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 22,000,000

Domestic: $ 52,767,889

Aliens (1986)

Summary: Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.

Release Date: July 18, 1986

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: James Cameron

Writers: James Cameron

, David Giler

, Walter Hill

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: R

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Brandywine Productions, Pinewood Studios, SLM Production Group

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, CBS/Fox, CBS, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, HBO Max, Tubi TV

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: Alien

Movie budget: $ 18,500,000

Domestic: $ 85,160,248

International: $ 45,900,000

Batman & Robin (1997)

Summary: Batman and Robin try to keep their relationship together even as they must stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from freezing Gotham City.

Release Date: June 20, 1997

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi

Director: Joel Schumacher

Writers: Bob Kane

, Akiva Goldsman

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Warner Bros., PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

Distributor: Warner Bros., CBS, HBO Max, Home Box Office (HBO), TBS Superstation, TNT, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Franchise: Batman

Movie budget: $ 125,000,000

Domestic: $ 107,353,792

International: $ 130,881,927

Star Trek Beyond (2016)

Summary: The crew of the USS Enterprise explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy, who puts them, and everything the Federation stands for, to the test.

Release Date: July 22, 2016

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Justin Lin

Writers: Simon Pegg

, Doug Jung

, Gene Roddenberry

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paramount Pictures, Skydance Media, Alibaba Pictures, Sneaky Shark, Perfect Storm Entertainment

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, CBS All Access, CBS, KVH Media Group, Paramount+

Countries: United States, China

Language: English

Franchise: Star Trek

Movie budget: $ 185,000,000

Domestic: $ 158,848,340

International: $ 184,623,476

Up the Down Staircase (1967)

Summary: The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school.

Release Date: June 28, 1967

Genre: Drama

Director: Robert Mulligan

Writers: Bel Kaufman

, Tad Mosel

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Park Place Production

Distributor: CBS, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

The Great Santini (1979)

Summary: As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated Marine pilot.

Release Date: October 26, 1979

Genre: Drama

Director: Lewis John Carlino

Writers: Pat Conroy

, Lewis John Carlino

, Herman Raucher

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Bing Crosby Productions, Bing Crosby Productions

Distributor: CBS, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,702,575

The Accused (1988)

Summary: After a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.

Release Date: October 14, 1988

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Jonathan Kaplan

Writer: Tom Topor

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, Jaffe-Lansing

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, Home Box Office (HBO), CBS, HBO Max, Paramount+

Countries: Canada, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 13,000,000

Domestic: $ 32,078,318

Big Business (1988)

Summary: Two couples of sisters from New York and from the countryside discover that they are connected in an incredible way.

Release Date: June 10, 1988

Genre: Comedy

Director: Jim Abrahams

Writers: Dori Pierson

, Marc Reid Rubel

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners III

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, CBS, Touchstone Home Video, Mill Creek Entertainment, Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 40,150,487

My Fair Lady (1964)

Summary: In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make a crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.

Release Date: December 25, 1964

Genres: Drama, Family, Musical

Director: George Cukor

Writers: Alan Jay Lerner

, George Bernard Shaw

Runtime: 2 h 50 min

MPAA: G

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Viacom, MGM/CBS Home Video, Disney Channel, CBS/Fox, Debmar Studios, Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Video, CBS Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Paramount Home Entertainment, CBS DVD, BY Experience, CBS Home Entertainment, CBS

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 17,000,000

Domestic: $ 72,560,711

International: $ 121,244