Race Politics Movies

In 1992, Mercer is desperately trying to rebuild his life and his relationship with his son amidst the turbulent Los Angeles uprising following the...

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot....

After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking...

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops,...

A young man in Oakland, California, wakes with a heavy heart and decides to take a walk through the neighborhood to the local barbershop.

The staff of a black hair salon fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the...

An animated satire on the question of self-image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in...

A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of...

A man forced to bear power and stripped of humanity. A woman skeptical of happiness. Takeshi Hongo, an Augmentation made by SHOCKER, and Ruriko...

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

Convinced that her white boyfriend would rather date a white girl, a gorgeous black woman drinks a potion that turns her into a gorgeous white...

African-American student Malik is on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will...

The controversial satire The LA Riot Spectacular plays for mordent laughs the events that consumed L.A. in 1992, after the police officers on trial...

Two beautiful and different girls, Alice and Lisette are 17 years old, when forcibly removed from their Alsatian family to cooperate in the war...

Everyone is happy for rising Asian American actor GQ Qi – the network, his mother, his best friend – everyone except GQ himself....

Amongst the 2011 London riots, a former boxer needs must choose between his past or a new future.

The award-winning Nordic Noir from writer/director David Noel Bourke. Jens has accepted far too much for too long. Being the shy night-owl he is, he...

An inspiring love story about a self-described “poor, gay, black man from North Philly” on his historic run for the United States Senate....