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Zootopia

February 10, 2016

Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case - even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Ni...

Serial (Bad) Weddings

April 15, 2014

A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins....

The Defiant Ones

August 13, 1958

Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other....

A Raisin in the Sun

May 27, 1961

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the fa...

The Nightingale

September 22, 2018

In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family....

42

April 11, 2013

In 1946, Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford), owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, took a stand against Major League Baseball's infamous colour line when he signed Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) to ...

Ernest & Celestine

December 11, 2012

Celestine is a little mouse trying to avoid a dental career while Ernest is a big bear craving an artistic outlet. When Celestine meets Ernest, they overcome their natural enmity by forging ...

Something the Lord Made

May 29, 2004

A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas....

Sayonara

December 24, 1957

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a n...

Gentleman's Agreement

November 10, 1947

A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism....

Mississippi Masala

September 17, 1991

Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passion...

Fremont

August 24, 2023

Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune...

In This Our Life

May 7, 1942

An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her....

The Hurricane

November 8, 1937

A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but a...

Sapphire

November 1, 1959

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfrie...

The Alcove

January 20, 1985

In 1936 Italy, Elio returns home from Africa with a present for his wife in the form of Zerbal, the daughter of a tribal king. Unbeknown to him, his neglected wife Alessandra has formed a re...

Tick... Tick... Tick...

January 8, 1970

Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South....

Good Fences

January 21, 2003

Set in the 1970s, Tom Spader is an attorney who is determined to end what he has dubbed "the colored man's losing streak." When his winning of a high-profile case thrusts him into the limeli...

No Down Payment

October 29, 1957

The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are ne'er-do-well Jerry Flagg and his long-sufferin...

Boycott

February 23, 2001

This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr....