Critically acclaimed Black Struggle movies

Actors : Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst, Denzel Washington, Will Patton,
Directors : Boaz Yakin,

The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.

Actors : Valarie Walker, Lisa Marie Bronson, Guinevere Turner, Cheryl Dunye,
Directors : Cheryl Dunye,

Cheryl is young, Black, and lesbian, working in Philadelphia with her best friend Tamara and consumed by a film project: to make a video about her search for a Black actress from Philly who...

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard,
Directors : Joe Roth,

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

Actors : Andre Royo, Cuba Gooding Jr., Gerald McRaney, David Oyelowo,
Directors : Anthony Hemingway,

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.

Actors : Don Cheadle, Bruce McGill, Jon Voight, Ving Rhames,
Directors : John Singleton,

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

Actors : Shirley Chisholm, Aurielle Akerele, Michael A. Lake, Chris Jarell,
Directors : Ephraim Asili,

A young man inherits his grandmother's house and, with the encouragement of his girlfriend, turns it into a Black socialist collective where community forms the basis of family.

Actors : Jada Pinkett Smith, Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Michael Rapaport,
Directors : Spike Lee,

A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Nia Long, Nicholas Hoult, Anthony Mackie,
Directors : George Nolfi,

In the 1960s two African-American entrepreneurs hire a working-class white man to pretend to be the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and chauffeur.

Actors : Debbie Harry, Sonny Bono, Divine, Ruth Brown,
Directors : John Waters,

A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.

Actors : Matthew McConaughey, Morgan Freeman, Djimon Hounsou, Anthony Hopkins,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

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.

Actors : Ed Harris, Debra Winger, S. Epatha Merkerson, Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Directors : Michael Tollin,

The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man who he took under his wing.

Actors : Taraji P. Henson, Anne Heche, Sam Rockwell, Babou Ceesay,
Directors : Robin Bissell,

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.

Actors : David Gulpilil, Gary Sweet, Damon Gameau, Grant Page,
Directors : Rolf de Heer,

It's 1922; somewhere in Australia. When a Native Australian man is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men (The Fanatic, The Follower and The Veteran) are given the mission of ...

Actors : Dyllan Christopher, Tyler James Williams, Gia Mantegna, Quinn Shephard,
Directors : Paul Feig,

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.

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 : Keke Palmer, Jonny Lee Miller, Common, Gaius Charles,
Directors : Krystin Ver Linden,

A slave in the antebellum South escapes her secluded plantation only to discover a shocking reality that lies beyond the tree line.

Actors : Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Duane Boutte, Anthony Mackie, Daniel Sunjata,
Directors : Rodney Evans,

A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.

Actors : Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Nathan Page, Mark Leonard Winter,
Directors : Francis Annan,

Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa.

Actors : Vanness Wu, Scott Adkins, Danny Kwok-Kwan Chan, Donnie Yen,
Directors : Wilson Yip,

The Kung Fu master travels to the U.S. where his student has upset the local martial arts community by opening a Wing Chun school.

Actors : David Morse, Cathy Moriarty, Melanie Griffith, Lucas Black,
Directors : Antonio Banderas,

An abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.