Films and programs like Amistad

Glory

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

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Inherit the Wind

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1960 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to brin...

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The Ice Storm

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 7.4

In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.

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The Birth of a Nation

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 6.5

Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites.

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Marshall

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 7.3

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

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Selma

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.5

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately...

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All the Way

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the nig...

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The Client

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1994 IMDB Rating: 6.7

A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he te...

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Memoirs of a Geisha

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 7.3

A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

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