Lincoln(2012)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 89

As the War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.



Django Unchained(2012)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 87

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.



Exodus: Gods and Kings(2014)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 600,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.



12 Years a Slave(2013)

Combined Rating:
97
Combined Critics Rating: 96

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.



Amistad(1997)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 60

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.



Ben-Hur(2016)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 61

Judah Ben-Hur, a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother, an officer in the Roman army, returns to his homeland after years at sea to seek revenge, but finds redemption.



Pompeii(2014)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A slave-turned-gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts, he must fight to save his beloved as Pompeii crumbles around him.



Beloved(1998)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter.



Amazing Grace(2006)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 33

The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.



Free State of Jones(2016)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A disillusioned Confederate army deserter returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters and women in an uprising against the corrupt local Confederate government.



The Mission(1986)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 17

18th century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.



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.



One Night with the King(2006)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 36

The young Jewish girl, Hadassah, goes on to become the Biblical Esther, the Queen of Persia, who saves the Jewish nation from annihilation at the hands of its archenemy.



Wu ji(2005)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 27

Empowered by the love of a slave (Jang), a royal concubine (Cheung) is given the chance to make an extraordinary decision.



The Puppet Masters(1994)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 16

The Earth is invaded by stingray-shaped alien "slugs" that ride on people's backs and control their minds.



Kull the Conqueror(1997)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

An barbarian warrior becomes a king when he defeats a king in armed combat and the king's heir conspire to overthrow him and reclaim the throne by resurrecting an evil sorceress.



Mongol(2007)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 72

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.



Paradise(1982)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In the Victorian period, two teenagers, David and Sarah, travel with a caravan from Baghdad to Damascus. At an oasis, the white slave agent known as the Jackal raids them, mainly to add the...



The Handmaid's Tale(1990)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 14

In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.



Sankofa(1993)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A self-absorbed Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Africa is spiritually transported back to a plantation in the West Indies where she experiences first-hand the physical and ...




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