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Summary: A runaway slave forges through the swamps of Louisiana on a tortuous journey to escape plantation owners that nearly killed him.
Runtime: 2 h 12 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 120,000,000
Summary: An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.
Runtime: 2 h 36 min
MPAA: PG

Movie budget: $ 100,000,000
Domestic: $ 38,530,322
International: $ 37,485,849
Summary: The secret U.S. abduction of a suspected terrorist leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York City, which leads to the declaration of martial-law.
Runtime: 1 h 56 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 70,000,000
Domestic: $ 40,981,289
International: $ 75,691,623
Summary: Meet the jazz musicians, dancers, owner, and guests (like gangster Dutch Schultz) of The Cotton Club in 1928-1930s Harlem.
Runtime: 2 h 09 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 58,000,000
Domestic: $ 25,928,721
Summary: Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.
Runtime: 2 h 08 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 55,000,000
Domestic: $ 7,221,458
International: $ 2,230,165
Summary: A young Mississippi lawyer defends a black man who killed the two white men that raped his preteen daughter.
Runtime: 2 h 29 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 40,000,000
Domestic: $ 108,766,007
International: $ 43,500,000
Summary: A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl taken by the Kiowa people years ago to her aunt and uncle against her will. They travel hundreds of miles and face grave dangers as they search for a place that either can call home.
Runtime: 1 h 58 min
MPAA: PG

Countries: United States, China
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 38,000,000
Domestic: $ 12,668,325
Summary: A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to finally bring a white supremacist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.
Release Date: January 03, 1997
Genres: Drama, History
Runtime: 2 h 10 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 36,000,000
Domestic: $ 13,323,144
Summary: A Japanese-American fisherman is accused of killing his neighbor at sea. In the 1950s, race figures into the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.
Runtime: 2 h 07 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 35,000,000
Domestic: $ 14,417,593
International: $ 8,632,000
Summary: Jesse Owens' quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
Runtime: 2 h 14 min
MPAA: PG-13

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000
Domestic: $ 19,206,207
International: $ 5,864,054
Summary: The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
Runtime: 2 h 09 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000
Summary: After a Hmong teenager tries to steal his prized 1972 Gran Torino, a disgruntled, prejudiced Korean War veteran seeks to redeem both the boy and himself.
Runtime: 1 h 56 min
MPAA: 14A

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 33,000,000
Domestic: $ 148,095,302
International: $ 121,862,926
Summary: Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.
Runtime: 3 h 22 min
MPAA: PG

Countries: United States, Japan
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 33,000,000
Domestic: $ 48,169,910
Summary: In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.
Runtime: 2 h 10 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 33,000,000
Domestic: $ 9,000,202
International: $ 2,498,682
Summary: Carl Brashear is an ambitious sharecropper who joins the U.S. Navy to become the world's first black master diver. But as he works through diving training, the racist Master Chief sets out to make Carl's journey as difficult as po...
Runtime: 2 h 09 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 32,000,000
Domestic: $ 48,818,921
International: $ 33,524,574
Summary: In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
Runtime: 2 h 11 min
MPAA: PG

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000
Domestic: $ 3,765,585
International: $ 17,794,597
Summary: In 1971, Virginia high-school football was everything to the people of Alexandria, but when the school board was forced to integrate an all-Black school with an all-white one, the foundation of football's tradition was put to the ...
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 30,000,000
Domestic: $ 115,719,751
International: $ 21,051,932
Summary: When a disgraced former college dean has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark, twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking fact about his own life that he has kept secret for fifty years.
Runtime: 1 h 46 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 30,000,000
Domestic: $ 5,381,908
International: $ 17,572,160
Summary: As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.
Runtime: 2 h 12 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 30,000,000
Domestic: $ 116,632,095
International: $ 60,681,700
Summary: In 1950s New York, Lionel, a private detective with Tourette syndrome, sets out to uncover the mystery behind his mentor and only friend Frank's murder. Scouring the jazz clubs and slums of Brooklyn, he soon uncovers a web of secr...
Runtime: 2 h 24 min
MPAA: G

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 26,000,000
Domestic: $ 9,277,736
International: $ 9,300,000