In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.
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 basis.
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
A woman in Harlem desperately scrambles to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime while carrying their first child.
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.
An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.
Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.