Remember the Titans (2000)

Mississippi Burning (1988)

Summary: Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.

Release Date: January 27, 1989

Genres: Drama, Crime, History

Director: Alan Parker

Writer: Chris Gerolmo

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: R

Production: Orion Pictures

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Image Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Orion Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Twilight Time

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 34,603,943

A Time to Kill (1996)

Summary: A young Mississippi lawyer defends a black man who killed the two white men that raped his preteen daughter.

Release Date: July 24, 1996

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Joel Schumacher

Writers: John Grisham

, Akiva Goldsman

Runtime: 2 h 29 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Regency Productions, Warner Bros.

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

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 108,766,007

International: $ 43,500,000

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Summary: The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klu...

Release Date: June 08, 1915

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: D.W. Griffith

Writers: Thomas Dixon Jr.

, D.W. Griffith

, Frank E. Woods

Runtime: 3 h 15 min

MPAA: PG

Production: David W. Griffith Corp., Epoch Producing Corporation

Distributor: Astor Pictures Corporation, Joseph Brenner Associates (JBA), Lumivision, Republic Pictures Home Video, Image Entertainment, Kino Video, Reel Media International, FilmAnnex, Alpha Video Distributors, Twilight Time, Killiam Shows

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 110,000

Everything's Gonna Be All White (2022)

Summary: Explores the history of race in the USA from the perspective of people of color, delving deeply into the root causes of racial inequities.

Release Date: February 11, 2022

Genres: Documentary, History

Runtime: 0 h 54 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Mass Appeal

Country: United States

Language: English

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

Gran Torino (2008)

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.

Release Date: January 09, 2009

Genre: Drama

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writers: Nick Schenk

, Dave Johannson

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: Matten Productions, Double Nickel Entertainment, Gerber Pictures, Malpaso Productions, Village Roadshow Pictures, WV Films IV, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., HBO Max, TNT, Warner Home Video

Countries: Germany, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 33,000,000

Domestic: $ 148,095,302

International: $ 121,862,926

Get Out (2017)

Summary: A young African-American visits his White girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.

Release Date: February 24, 2017

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: Jordan Peele

Writer: Jordan Peele

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, QC Entertainment, Fuji Television Network

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United States, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,500,000

Domestic: $ 176,196,665

International: $ 79,548,492

Candyman (1992)

Summary: The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

Release Date: October 16, 1992

Genres: Thriller, Horror

Director: Bernard Rose

Writers: Clive Barker

, Bernard Rose

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: R

Production: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Propaganda Films, Candyman Films

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Scream Factory

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 25,792,310

International: $ 3,587

Intruder in the Dust (1949)

Summary: In 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.

Release Date: March 20, 1950

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Clarence Brown

Writers: William Faulkner

, Ben Maddow

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 988,000

Marshall (2017)

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.

Release Date: October 13, 2017

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Reginald Hudlin

Writers: Michael Koskoff

, Jacob Koskoff

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Chestnut Ridge Productions, China Wit Media, Starlight Culture Entertainment

Distributor: KVH Media Group, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United States, China, Hong Kong

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 10,051,659

International: $ 65,157

The Merchant of Venice (2004)

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.

Release Date: February 18, 2005

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Michael Radford

Writers: William Shakespeare

, Michael Radford

Runtime: 2 h 11 min

MPAA: R

Production: Movision, Avenue Pictures, UK Film Council, Luxembourg Film Fund, Delux Productions, Immagine e Cinema, Dania Film, Istituto Luce, Navidi-Wilde Productions Ltd., 39 McLaren St. Sydney, Barry Navidi Productions, LSG Productions, Rough Diamond Productions, Spice Factory

Distributor: Movision, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, Italy, Luxembourg, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,765,585

International: $ 17,794,597

A Borrowed Identity (2014)

Summary: A Palestinian-Israeli boy named Eyad is sent to a prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem, where he struggles with issues of language, culture, and identity.

Release Date: November 27, 2014

Genre: Drama

Director: Eran Riklis

Writer: Sayed Kashua

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: United Channel Movies, MACT Productions, Alma Film, ZDF/Arte

Distributor: Strand Releasing

Countries: Israel, Germany, France

Language: Hebrew

Domestic: $ 281,540

International: $ 649,418

Men of Honor (2000)

Summary: The story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American U.S. Navy Diver, and the man who trained him.

Release Date: November 10, 2000

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: George Tillman Jr.

Writer: Scott Marshall Smith

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: R

Production: Fox 2000 Pictures, State Street Pictures

Distributor: Fox Network

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 32,000,000

Domestic: $ 48,818,921

International: $ 33,524,574

Focus (2001)

Summary: In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a loc...

Release Date: May 02, 2002

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Neal Slavin

Writers: Arthur Miller

, Kendrew Lascelles

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Carros Pictures, Dog Pond Productions, Focus Productions Inc.

Distributor: Paramount Classics

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 645,418

Night on Earth (1991)

Summary: An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Release Date: December 12, 1991

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Jim Jarmusch

Writer: Jim Jarmusch

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: R

Production: Victor Company of Japan (JVC), Victor Musical Industries, Pyramide Productions, Canal+, Pandora Cinema, Pandora Filmproduktion, Channel Four Films, JVC Entertainment Networks, Locus Solus Entertainment

Distributor: Fine Line Features, Image Entertainment, New Line Home Video, New Line Cinema, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Countries: France, United Kingdom, Germany, United States, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,500,000

Domestic: $ 2,015,810

International: $ 97,577

Night Falls on Manhattan (1996)

Summary: A newly elected District Attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.

Release Date: May 16, 1997

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Sidney Lumet

Writers: Robert Daley

, Sidney Lumet

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, Spelling Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 9,889,670

The Beautiful Country (2004)

Summary: After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his American father is said to live.

Release Date: March 13, 2004

Genre: Drama

Director: Hans Petter Moland

Writers: Sabina Murray

, Lingard Jervey

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: R

Production: Dinamo Story, Sunflower Productions, Nordisk Film- & TV-Fond, Nordisk Film & TV-Fond, Samy Boy Entertainment, Sud-Est Productions

Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: Norway, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 442,813

International: $ 435,512

White Man's Burden (1995)

Summary: In an alternative America where African-Americans and White Americans have reversed cultural roles, a white factory worker kidnaps a black factory owner for dismissing him over perceived disdain.

Release Date: December 01, 1995

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: Desmond Nakano

Writer: Desmond Nakano

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: R

Production: A Band Apart, Chromatic, Home Box Office (HBO)

Distributor: Savoy Pictures

Countries: France, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,734,870