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1. Cadence (1991)
directed by Martin Sheen
featuring Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, F. Murray Abraham, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Beach, Blu Mankuma
When a young Caucasian military man is thrown into an all African-American barracks for punishment, he slowly earns the respect of his peers while ... More
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2. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
directed by John Korty
featuring Cicely Tyson, Barbara Chaney, Richard Dysart, Katherine Helmond, Michael Murphy
Cicely Tyson ages from 19 to 110 in the role of Jane Pittman, a fictional African-American woman whose life began in slavery and ended at the ... More
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3. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
directed by Bruce Beresford
featuring Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther Rolle
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy affectionately covers the 25-year relationship between a wealthy, strong ... More
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4. Nightjohn (1996)
directed by Charles Burnett
featuring Carl Lumbly, Beau Bridges, Allison Jones, Lorraine Toussaint, Bill Cobbs
Sarny (Allison Jones) is born into slavery and separated from her mother at an early age. She's raised by Dealey (Lorraine Toussaint), who promises ... More
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5. Leaves from Satan's Book (1919)
directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
The Danish Leaves From Satan's Book (Blad af Satans Bog) was the "breakthrough" picture for filmmaker Carl Thedor Dreyer, who was elevated from a ... More
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6. Hiroshima Maiden (1988)
directed by Joan Darling
Victory in war doesn't end prejudice. That idea is enacted in the 1988 release Hiroshima Maiden. Ten years after the end of World War II, suburbs are ... More
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7. Outlanders (2006)
directed by Dominic Lees
featuring Jakub Tolak, Przemyslaw Sadowski, Alexis Raben, Joe Tucker
A newcomer to Britain finds himself helplessly torn between two unfavorable options - incriminating his brother and protecting the woman he loves - ... More
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8. The Wooden Gun (1979)
directed by Ilan Moshenson
featuring Judith Sole, Leo Yung, Ophelia Strahl, Louis Rosenberg
The Wooden Gun takes place in Tel Aviv in the early 1950s. In a clear-eyed fashion that would have been impossible in a film made by "outsiders", the ... More
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9. The Middle Passage (2000)
directed by Guy Deslauriers
featuring Maka Kotto
The ugly realities of the slave trade and the horrible toll it took upon the Africans who fell into its trap are explored in this drama. Filmed ... More
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10. Boycott (2001)
directed by Clark Johnson
featuring Jeffrey Wright, Terrence Howard, CCH Pounder, Carmen Ejogo, Reg E. Cathey
In 1955, an African-American woman named Rosa Parks dared to take an empty seat in the "Whites Only" section on a city bus in Montomery, AL, and ... More
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11. Amistad (1997)
directed by Steven Spielberg
featuring Arliss Howard, Jeremy Northam, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey, Nigel Hawthorne, Djimon Hounsou
This Steven Spielberg-directed exploration into a long-ago episode in African-American history recounts the trial that followed the 1839 rebellion ... More
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12. The Crucible (1996)
directed by Nicholas Hytner
featuring Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Bruce Davison
When Arthur Miller's play The Crucible was first staged in 1953, it was widely acclaimed as a metaphor for the recklessness of Joseph McCarthy and ... More
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13. Solomon and Gaenor (2000)
directed by Paul Morrison
featuring Ioan Gruffudd, Nia Roberts, Sue Jones Davies, William Thomas, Mark Lewis Jones
A romantic drama about love that blooms against all odds, Solomon and Gaenor is set in Wales in 1911. Solomon (Ioan Gruffudd) is a door-to-door ... More
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14. Black Like Me (1964)
directed by Carl Lerner
featuring James Whitmore, Sorrell Booke, Al Freeman, Jr., Roscoe Lee Browne
Black Like Me is the true story of white journalist John Howard Griffin, who "became" a Negro in the late 1950s. Feeling that the best way to ... More
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15. Shadow of the Sword (2005)
directed by Simon Aeby
featuring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter McDonald, Anastasia Griffith, Steven Berkoff, Eddie Marsan
Also (and more pointedly) entitled The Headsman, Simon Aeby's scope period drama Shadow of the Sword uses its narrative to explore conflicts and ... More
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16. Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
directed by Scott Hicks
featuring Ethan Hawke, James Cromwell, Richard Jenkins, James Rebhorn, Sam Shepard, Eric Thal, Max von Sydow, Youki Kudoh, Rick Yune
Nine years after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a small town in the Pacific Northwest still struggles with the troubling legacy of U.S. policies ... More
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17. Grey Owl (1999)
directed by Richard Attenborough
featuring Pierce Brosnan, Annie Galipeau, Nathaniel Arcand, Vlasta Vrana, David Fox, Stewart Bick
Archibald Belaney was a British man who grew up fascinated with Native American culture -- so much so that in the early 1900s he left the United ... More
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18. The Help (2011)
directed by Tate Taylor
featuring Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia L. Spencer, Jessica Chastain
A 1960s-era Mississippi debutante sends her community into an uproar by conducting a series of probing interviews with the black servants behind some ... More
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19. The Great Debaters (2007)
directed by Denzel Washington
featuring Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett, Denzel Whitaker
Drawing inspiration from the true story of a temperamental debate coach who molded the students of a small East Texas college into a formidable team ... More
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20. Enchanted April (1992)
directed by Mike Newell
featuring Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright, Alfred Molina, Josie Lawrence, Polly Walker, Michael Kitchen
Previously filmed in 1935 with Ann Harding, Enchanted April, a romantic novel by Elizabeth, was remade in 1992. The first film skips along ... More
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21. The King's Speech (2010)
directed by Tom Hooper
featuring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall, Derek Jacobi, Jennifer Ehle, Michael Gambon
Emmy Award-winning director Tom Hooper (John Adams) teams with screenwriter David Seidler (Tucker: A Man and His Dreams) to tell the story of King ... More
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22. Barry Lyndon (1975)
directed by Stanley Kubrick
featuring Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Kruger, Gay Hamilton
With ornate imagery reminiscent of paintings from the story's 18th century period, Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's ... More
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23. The Secret in Their Eyes (2010)
directed by Juan José Campanella
featuring Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Javier Godino, Carla Quevedo, Barbara Palladino
Juan José Campanella helmed this crime thriller about judicial cover-ups and corruption in Argentina. Ricardo Darín stars as Benjamín, a former ... More
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24. Little House on the Prairie (2005)
directed by David L. Cunningham
featuring Cameron Bancroft, Erin Cottrell, Kyle Chavarria, Danielle Chuchran, Gregory Sporlader
Narratively, the Disney-produced 2004 miniseries Little House on the Prairie retraces the footsteps of the acclaimed prime-time, nine-year TV series ... More
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25. The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
directed by Justin Chadwick
featuring Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Jim Sturgess, Mark Rylance
Adapted from author Philippa Gregory's historical novel of the same name, director Justin Chadwick's atmospheric period drama follows the fierce ... More
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