Best Black Struggle movies of 1960s

Actors : Katharine Houghton, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African American fiancé.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Gregory Peck, Frank Overton, John Megna,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.

Actors : Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Lee Grant, Warren Oates,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.

Actors : Julius Harris, Gloria Foster, Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln,
Directors : Michael Roemer,

A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.

Actors : Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

A grand adventurous race takes place between the heroic Leslie and the despicable Professor Fate across three continents.

Actors : Zero Mostel, Michael Crawford, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton,
Directors : Richard Lester,

A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.

Actors : Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford, Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Guy Green,

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

Actors : Joel Fluellen, James Earl Jones, Lou Gilbert, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

Actors : Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans, Kyle Johnson, Dana Elcar,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

The story, set in Kansas during the 1920s, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The ...

Actors : Eddie Hodges, Archie Moore, Patty McCormack, Tony Randall,
Directors : Michael Curtiz,

Mark Twain's 1851 story about two runaway friends, a fostered white boy and an escaped black slave, who sailed on a raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom and adventure.

Actors : Bernie Hamilton, Richard Mulligan, Barbara Barrie, Harry Bellaver,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Study of interracial marriage in the 1960's. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed...

Actors : Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace, Godfrey Cambridge,
Directors : Ossie Davis,

Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are two black cops with a reputation for breaking the odd head. Both are annoyed at the success of the Reverend Deke O'Mailey who is selling trips ...

Actors : Fredric March, George Kennedy, Lynn Carlin, Jim Brown,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.

Actors : Alan Ladd, Glenn Corbett, Sidney Poitier, James Darren,
Directors : Hall Bartlett,

During the Korean War,a platoon leader dies leaving his inexperienced black sergeant in charge of his squad of belligerent and racist white men.

Actors : James Whitmore, Al Freeman Jr., Roscoe Lee Browne, Sorrell Booke,
Directors : Carl Lerner,

Based on the true story of a white reporter who, at the height of the civil-rights movement, temporarily darkened his skin so that he could experience the realities of a black man's life in the segregated South.

Actors : Robin Phillips, Judy Geeson, Hal Frederick, Ester Anderson,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.

Actors : Sylvia Syms, John Mills, Earl Cameron, Brenda de Banzie,
Directors : Roy Ward Baker,

During the 1960s in Britain, tense race relations between whites and blacks are affecting the workplace, the family, the dating scene and the society at large.

Actors : Robert Calvert, Frank Lieberman, Al Freeman Jr., Shirley Knight,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

A sinister, neurotic white girl Lula, with the provocation of her lovely, half-naked body and of her startlingly lascivious speech, lures to his doom a good-looking young black man Clay, a ...

Actors : Mark Damon, Rita Moreno, Jay Novello, Gerald Mohr,

Damon's in black-face as blacks take on whites who take on Hispanics in this very entertaining teenage gang war extravaganza. Teenage punks slice and dice each other, turn innocent young ...

Actors : Annalena Lund, Frederick O'Neal, Johnny Hicks, George Edgley,
Directors : Larry Buchanan,

The central conflict in this film is whether African-American businessman Ernie Jones (played by O'Neal) raped Swedish immigrant and civil rights Freedom Rider Greta Mae Hansen (played by ...