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BlacKkKlansman
Based on a true story, in the early 1970s, an African American police officer orchestrates a plan to infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan.
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Dear White People
Follows four Black students at an Ivy League school dealing with racial stereotypes.
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Fences
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a former baseball player struggles to provide for his family.
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42
Depicts the early career of Jackie Robinson as he became the first African American Major League Baseball player when he was signed to the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers.
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12 Years a Slave
Tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was abducted in Washington, D.C., and forced to spend the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation
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Fruitvale Station
Based on a true story, Oscar Grant is shot by BART officers at Fruitvale Station on New Year's Day.
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Harriet
Follows the life of American abolitionist Harriet Tubman as she escapes from slavery and leads other slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad.
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The Hate U Give
Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures from all sides of the community, Starr tries to find her voice in order to stand up for what's right.
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Hidden Figures
Follows three African American women working as human computers for NASA during the space race of the 1950s and 1960s.
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I Am Not Your Negro
Through archival interviews with James Baldwin and other footage, tells the story of racism in the United States in the twentieth century.
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If Beale Street Could Talk
A woman in Harlem desperately scrambles to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime while carrying their first child.
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Judas and the Black Messiah
When William O'Neal, a career thief, is turned into an FBI informant, he is tasked with infiltrating the Illinois Black Panther Party and reporting on the actions of their leader, Chairman Fred Hampton.
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Just Mercy
Based on a true story, Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson goes to Alabama to fight for the release of death row inmate Walter McMillian.
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Loving
Tells the story of Virginia interracial couple Mildred and Richard Loving who, in 1958, were sentenced to prison for getting married.
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Marshall
The story of Thurgood Marshall, a lawyer who became the first African American to be Solicitor General and a Supreme Court justice.
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MLK / FBI
Explores the FBI's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr., based on declassified documents and incorporating archival footage.
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Miss Juneteenth
A former beauty queen prepares her rebellious daughter for the Miss Juneteenth pageant.
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Moonlight
Follows an African American man as he grows up in a rough Miami neighborhood and tries to find his place in the world.
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Race
The story of track and field legend Jesse Owens, and his record-breaking performance at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany.
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Selma
Follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s efforts in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
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And She Could Be Next
The documentary follows a defiant movement of women of color as they transform politics from the ground up. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm elections, the series follows organizers and candidates (including Rashida Tlaib and Stacey Abrams) as they fight for a truly reflective government, asking whether democracy can be preserved, and made stronger, by those most marginalized.
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