Hidden Figures (2016)

The Help (2011)

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...

Release Date: August 10, 2011

Genre: Drama

Director: Tate Taylor

Writers: Tate Taylor

, Kathryn Stockett

Runtime: 2 h 26 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: DreamWorks, Dreamworks Pictures, Reliance Film & Entertainment, Reliance Film & Entertainment, 1492 Pictures, Harbinger Pictures

Distributor: Touchstone Pictures, Showtime Networks, FX Network

Countries: United States, India

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 169,708,112

International: $ 46,931,000

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

Malcolm X (1992)

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.

Release Date: November 18, 1992

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Spike Lee

Writers: Alex Haley

, Arnold Perl

, Spike Lee

Runtime: 3 h 22 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Largo International N.V., JVC Entertainment Networks, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks

Distributor: Warner Home Video, HBO Max, Netflix

Countries: United States, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 33,000,000

Domestic: $ 48,169,910

Suffragette (2015)

Summary: In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end.

Release Date: October 12, 2015

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Sarah Gavron

Writer: Abi Morgan

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Ruby Films, Pathé, Film4, British Film Institute (BFI), Canal+, Ciné+, Ingenious Media, Pathe UK, Redgill Productions, Film Four

Distributor: Focus Features, KVH Media Group

Countries: United Kingdom, France

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 14,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,702,420

International: $ 27,269,676

Ghostbusters (2016)

Summary: Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.

Release Date: July 15, 2016

Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Paul Feig

Writers: Katie Dippold

, Paul Feig

, Ivan Reitman

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Columbia Pictures, LStar Capital, Village Roadshow Pictures, Ghostcorps, The Montecito Picture Company

Countries: United States, Australia

Language: English

Franchise: Ghostbusters

Movie budget: $ 144,000,000

Domestic: $ 128,350,574

International: $ 100,796,935

13th (2016)

Summary: An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

Release Date: October 07, 2016

Genres: Crime, Documentary, History

Director: Ava DuVernay

Writers: Spencer Averick

, Ava DuVernay

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Forward Movement, Kandoo Films, Netflix

Country: United States

Language: English

12 Years a Slave (2013)

Summary: In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Release Date: November 08, 2013

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Steve McQueen

Writers: John Ridley

, Solomon Northup

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Regency Productions, River Road Entertainment, Plan B Entertainment, Film4, Searchlight Pictures, Summit Entertainment

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 56,671,993

International: $ 131,061,209

The Long Walk Home (1990)

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.

Release Date: April 12, 1991

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Richard Pearce

Writer: John Cork

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Dave Bell Associates, New Visions Pictures

Distributor: Miramax, Artisan Entertainment, Artisan Home Entertainment, Avid Home Entertainment, Kinnevik Media Properties, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Live Home Video, Platinum Disc, Showtime Networks

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,873,620

Shadow in the Cloud (2020)

Summary: A female WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.

Release Date: January 01, 2021

Genres: Action, Horror, War

Director: Roseanne Liang

Writers: Max Landis

, Roseanne Liang

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: R

Production: Endeavor Content, Rhea Films (II), Hercules Film Fund, New Zealand Film Commission, Automatik Entertainment, Four Knights Film, Fifth Season

Distributor: Redbox Entertainment, Vertical Entertainment

Countries: New Zealand, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 156,932

International: $ 897,358

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

A United Kingdom (2016)

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.

Release Date: February 10, 2017

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Amma Asante

Writers: Guy Hibbert

, Susan Williams

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Searchlight Pictures, Pathe UK, BBC Films, Canal+, Ciné+, Yoruba Saxon Productions, Harbinger Pictures, Perfect Weekend, Film United, Advantage Entertainment, The Czech Republic State Fund for Support and Development of Cinematography, Fox Searchlight Pictures

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, KVH Media Group

Countries: Czechia, United Kingdom, France, United States, Czech Republic

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 14,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,902,185

International: $ 10,557,145

The Red Pill (2016)

Summary: The Red Pill chronicles filmmaker Cassie Jaye's journey following the mysterious and polarizing Men's Rights Movement. The Red Pill explores today's gender war and asks the question "what is the future of gender equality?"

Release Date: March 07, 2017

Genre: Documentary

Director: Cassie Jaye

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: Jaye Bird Productions

Distributor: Gravitas Ventures

Country: United States

Language: English

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 Secret Life of Bees (2008)

Summary: In 1964, a teenage girl in search of the truth about her mother runs away to a small town in South Carolina and finds a family of independent women who can connect her to her past.

Release Date: October 17, 2008

Genre: Drama

Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood

Writers: Gina Prince-Bythewood

, Sue Monk Kidd

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Searchlight Pictures, Overbrook Entertainment, Donners' Company, Talent One

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Domestic: $ 37,770,162

International: $ 2,182,275

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

Sing Your Song (2011)

Summary: Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer. This film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice globally.

Release Date: April 14, 2012

Genres: Music, Documentary, Biography

Director: Susanne Rostock

Writer: Susanne Rostock

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Thought Engine Media Group

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 47,718

International: $ 17,592