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Summary: Three female African-American mathematicians play a pivotal role in astronaut John Glenn's launch into orbit. Meanwhile, they also have to deal with racial and gender discrimination at work.
Runtime: 2 h 07 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 25,000,000
Domestic: $ 169,607,287
International: $ 66,350,185
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Summary: Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration.
Runtime: 2 h 13 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 10,205,616
International: $ 4,197
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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...
Runtime: 2 h 26 min
MPAA: PG-13

Countries: United States, India
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 25,000,000
Domestic: $ 169,708,112
International: $ 52,094,074
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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
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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
Runtime: 1 h 46 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 14,000,000
Domestic: $ 4,702,420
International: $ 27,269,676
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Summary: In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Runtime: 2 h 14 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 20,000,000
Domestic: $ 56,671,993
International: $ 131,062,098
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Runtime: 1 h 58 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 12,000,000
Domestic: $ 10,051,659
International: $ 65,157
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Summary: 1964. Lily, a lonely teenager, flees from her home and reaches a small town in South Carolina. Once there, she finds herself in the company of the Boatwright sisters who introduce her to a new world.
Runtime: 1 h 54 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 11,000,000
Domestic: $ 37,770,162
International: $ 2,182,275
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Summary: Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.
Runtime: 2 h 08 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 15,000,000
Domestic: $ 34,603,943
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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
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Summary: A widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a black man against a false rape charge while teaching his young children about the sad reality of prejudice.
Runtime: 2 h 09 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 2,000,000
Domestic: $ 592,237
International: $ 7,697
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Summary: Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.
Runtime: 3 h 21 min
MPAA: G

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 5,400,000
Domestic: $ 32,855,818
International: $ 1,248
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Summary: Nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be - she's wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living a secret double life. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs from the past.
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
MPAA: 14A

Language: English
Domestic: $ 6,460,965
International: $ 12,393,201
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Summary: A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.
Runtime: 2 h 34 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 15,000,000
Domestic: $ 98,467,863
International: $ 239
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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
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Summary: Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.
Runtime: 2 h 23 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 34,000,000
Domestic: $ 16,790,139
International: $ 6,564,961
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Summary: Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: TV-PG

Country: United States
Language: English