Racial Tension Movies

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.

In 1993 Fiza's brother disappears during the riots in Mumbai. In 1999 Fiza is tired of waiting and goes looking for him.

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

Their town always had two proms, one for the whites and one for the blacks. When both proms wanted the same DJ, Brianna McCallister suggested combinin...

A documentary that chronicles the life of South African leader Nelson Mandela. Mandela is probably best known for his 27 years of imprisonment, and fo...

An enigmatic man returns to his Alabama hometown as his sister is dying of cancer and incites the suspicion of notable town officials.

Director Steve James returns to his home town of Hampton, Virginia to tell the story of how the trial of a young basketball star left a city divided.

Vastly different lives and perspectives become intertwined after a police officer suffering from reoccurring PTSD mistakenly shoots a deaf African-Ame...

A successful African American businessman has a quarrel with a white policeman, suspecting that he is having an affair with his wife. The policeman's...

James Earl Jones narrates this examination of the historical relationship between American Indians and African-Americans, who often merged their cultu...

A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman,...

Indian (Sohail Khan),or I, as he goes by, is distraught when he must move to London with his father in order to live with the rest of his family, who...

Across Europe, the far right is embedding itself into the political landscape and daily life. But behind an increasingly smooth and respectable façade...

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

A detailing of the plight of white South African farmers.

Myra Chang comes of age in a dysfunctional family business. When her abusive mother tries to claim her life, Myra comes face to face with a decision t...

Danny ponders a way for rival gangs to avoid violence at an upcoming dance.

Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease in...

In 1962 in Montgomery, Alabama, State Attorney Richmond Flowers, Sr. is one of few willing to fight racial injustices even if it costs him his family'...

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965),the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital in the rainforests of Gabon, achieved sainthood i...