The Great Debaters(2007)

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Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.



The Hate U Give(2018)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 85

Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right.



Soul Man(1986)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship.



Do the Right Thing(1989)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 80

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.



Wildcats(1986)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A rookie high school football coach has a harder time than she expected trying to whip her tough inner city team into shape.



Glory(1989)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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.



Corrina, Corrina(1994)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A true testament to the beauty of love despite race, creed, or religion.



Sorry to Bother You(2018)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 87

In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed.



Unaccompanied Minors(2006)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 55

A group of unaccompanied minors bond while snowed in at the midwestern Hoover International Airport during the holiday season and ultimately create a makeshift holiday themselves.



Fruitvale Station(2013)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 86

The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.



The Birth of a Nation(2016)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.



Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song(1971)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 17

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.



Hamburger Hill(1987)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A very realistic interpretation of one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.



Rosewood(1997)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African American community.



Freedomland(2006)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.



My Family(1995)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 27

This epic film traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies and triumphs. Jose and Maria, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face...



Marshall(2017)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 73

About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.



The Best of Enemies(2019)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 56

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.



Dark Blue(2002)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.



The Express(2008)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.




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