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2) Green book
Formats
Description
"A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South"--www.imdb.com.
3) Crash
Description
Tracks the volatile intersections of a multi-ethnic cast of characters as they careen in and out of one another's lives and struggle to overcome their fears.
4) 96 minutes
Description
"The story of 4 lives slammed together in a shocking moment. Intercutting between a carjacking and the separate stories of the 4 kids in Atlanta, we watch as they hurtle toward a life-changing end"--From www.imdb.com.
Series
Criterion collection volume 97
Description
"On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence."--www.imdb.com.
Description
"Standing on the edge of adulthood, Andrew yearns to find his purpose as a young black man in today's America. With his mother longing to find more to her life than parenting, Andrew is forced to take on the mounting pressure of family responsibility. His search for connection with an absent father, leads him to a dangerous crossroads"--From www.imdb.com.
8) Luce
Formats
Description
"A married couple is forced to reckon with their idealized image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritrea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher threatens his status as an all-star student"--From www.imdb.com.
10) Till
Description
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
11) Always in season
Description
"Always in season explores the lingering impact of more than a century of lynching African Americans and connects this form of historic racial terrorism to racial nonviolence today"--Provided by publisher.
12) Show boat
Series
Criterion collection volume 1021
Description
"Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady."--www.imdb.com.
13) Doubting Thomas
Description
"When a black baby is born to white parents, a family's life is torn apart as secrets are revealed, their love is tested and the legacy of racism in America hits home."--www.imdb.com.
15) Monsters and men
Description
"The aftermath of a police killing of a black man, told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, an African-American police officer and a high-school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand"--from www.imdb.com.
16) Son of the South
Description
"In this poignant true story set in Montgomery, Alabama, a Klansman's grandson must choose which side of history to be on during the Civil Rights Movement. Defying his family and white Southern norms, he fought against social injustice, repression and violence to change the world around him"--from www.imdb.com.
18) Man on fire
Description
"Grand Saline, Texas was a sleepy, unremarkable town--until a white preacher lit himself on fire to protest the town's racism in 2014"--from www.imdb.com.
19) Black or white
Description
"A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life"--From www.imdb.com.
20) Tyrel
Description
A man joins his friend on a trip for a weekend birthday party with a bunch of other men he doesn't know and discovers that he is the only black guy in the group.
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