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.
The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
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.
The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African American fiancé.
The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man who he took under his wing.
A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.
The story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American, then also the first amputee, U.S. Navy Diver, and the man who trained him.
Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
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.
A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that weren't bad enough, he's white.
In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.
Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard reexamines his attitudes while falling in love with the African American wife of the last prisoner he executed.