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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: Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.
Runtime: 1 h 37 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 6,000,000
Domestic: $ 4,873,620
Summary: The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil.
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
MPAA: PG-13

Movie budget: $ 14,000,000
Domestic: $ 3,902,185
International: $ 10,557,145
Summary: A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.
Runtime: 1 h 55 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 2,291,255
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
Summary: A fictionalized account of the life of the martial arts superstar.
Runtime: 2 h 00 min
MPAA: G

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 14,000,000
Domestic: $ 35,113,743
International: $ 28,400,000
Summary: An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
Runtime: 1 h 39 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 7,500,000
Domestic: $ 106,593,296
International: $ 39,200,000
Summary: Born poor in St. Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker achieved fame and fortune through her sizzlingly exotic, erotic performances. Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit, success takes Josephine to Paris where her semi-nude...
Runtime: 2 h 10 min
MPAA: R

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: Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: TV-PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 45,200
International: $ 46,633
Summary: In 1950s Connecticut, a flustered housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
Release Date: January 10, 2003
Genres: Drama, Romance
Runtime: 1 h 47 min
MPAA: PG-13

Countries: United States, France
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 13,500,000
Domestic: $ 15,901,849
International: $ 13,126,065
Summary: An aspiring white actress takes in an African American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.
Runtime: 2 h 05 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 2,000,000
Summary: Cassavetes' jazz-scored improvisational film explores interracial friendships and relationships in Beat-Era (1950s) New York City.
Runtime: 1 h 21 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 40,000
Summary: A racially charged trial and a heartrending love story converge in this documentary about Mildred and Richard Loving, set during the Civil Rights era.
Runtime: 1 h 17 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 4,218
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: 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: 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
Summary: Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
Runtime: 1 h 33 min
MPAA: PG-13

Domestic: $ 7,123,919
International: $ 1,221,379